He was born in Paris, France, in 1972. He began playing piano at the age of six and entered the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) at fifteen. While still a student at the Conservatory, he was hired by the Cinémathèque française to accompany numerous silent films on piano.

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In 2001, he composed his first feature film score for Mathieu Amalric’s ‘Wimbledon Stage’. Arnaud Desplechin then called upon him for ‘Kings and Queen’ (2003), and this led to an uninterrupted collaboration on some fifteen films.

He has composed over a hundred original scores for film and theatre, collaborating with directors such as Denis Villeneuve (‘Incendies’, 2010), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (‘Daguerrotptype’, 2016), Ber- trand Blier (‘Heavy Duty’, 2019), Anne Fontaine (‘The Innocents’, 2016), Nicole Garcia (‘Lovers’, 2020), Louis Garrel (‘The Crusade’, 2021), Etgar Keret (‘Jellyfish’, 2007), and others, leading him to explore numerous genres, from symphonic music to jazz, electronic music, and pop.

In 2014, he wrote an opera, ‘The Fall of Fuku- yama’, conducted by Daniel Harding with Radio France’s Orchestre Philharmonique. He is cu- rrently composing music for Swedish choreogra- pher Johan Inger, a ballet which will be created at the Paris Opera in June 2027. Grégoire Hetzel is also the author of a novel, ‘Le Vert paradis’, published in 2003 by Gallimard. He has been nominated for five César awards, for his work in ‘The Tree’ (Julie Bertuccelli, 2010), ‘My Golden Days’ (Arnaud Desplechin, 2015), ‘An Impossi- ble Love’ (Catherine Corsini, 2018), ‘Oh Mercy!’ (Arnaud Desplechin, 2019) and ‘The Innocent’ (Louis Garrel, 2022).