Avril

Fred Avril Magnon is a French composer based in Montmartre, Paris. As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for two albums that showed a strong link with cinema.

Biography Avril got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director Johnnie To. His quasi-musical Man Jeuk's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China. Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise (Semaine de la critique, Cannes) about "sonic bombing". He then composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" (Liz W. Garcia) with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance.

Other projects featured singers Mick Harvey (former member of the Bad Seeds) and late Christophe (singer). He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success Connasse, Princesse des cœurs introducing Camille Cottin.

In 2018, he composed the main theme for The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on YouTube and was streamed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by Bertelsmann Music Group. Avril also writes orchestral music, such as I Am Not an Easy Man. He won the Emile Award for Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.

Film soundtracks

TV series soundtracks

Discography Personal albums Now It's Spring (2000) (F Com) That Horse Must Be Starving (2002) (F Com) Members Only (2004) (F Com)

Original soundtracks Sparrow (CD, Naive 2008) Sound of Noise (CD, Hybris, 2010) Les Bêtises Cine Music Club (2014) Connasse, Princesse des Coeurs (CD, Milan, 2015) Lastman (Vinyl, Everybody On Deck, 2017) (sold out) I Am Not an Easy Man (Plaza Mayor, 2018) Pearl (Plaza Mayor, 2019) Qui m'aime me suive (Plaza Mayor, 2019) Plan Coeur (BMG US, 2019)

Other records Hollywood mon amour (« This Is Not America » cover featuring Juliette Lewis) (PIAS 2008) Nouvelle Vague Album Bande à part arrangement and production (Peacefrog 2006) Temposhark Invisible Ink Remix (Paper and Glue 2005) Olga Kouklaki, I U Need arrangement and production (EMI 2011) Stephan Eicher, L'Envolée composition and production p(Barclay/Universal, 2012)

Awards and nominations 2002 That Horse Must Be Starving Prix Constantin 2008 Sparrow Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 Sparrow Taipei Film Festival 2010 Sound of Noise Stockholm Film Festival Music Award 2018 Best soundtrack in an animated series in Europe for Lastman Emile Award