Oscar winning composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Michel Legrand has composed over 200 film scores including The Thomas Crown Affair (The Windmills of Your Mind) and Summer of '42 as well as several musicals including Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl which have won him three Oscars and five Grammys. He was 22 when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. His albums now number over 100 spanning jazz, musical theatre, variety and classical styles on which he has worked with Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Jones, Regine Velasquez, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Lena Horne, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, James Ingram, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand and many other leading musicians.60 Years of Music and Movies - T1262276183Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. | |
| 18 Sep 18 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1983964014 |
With Alison Moyet - T0436049325Accompanying Michel will be the mellifluous Alison Moyet famed for her strong blues voice and award winning music career spanning 26 years; from mainstream pop group Yazoo, to solo artist, and more recently acting in the musical 'Chicago' and the play 'Smaller' both in the West End. Winner of three BRIT awards and Grammy nominee, her latest album 'The Turn' was released in the UK in 2007 and the US in 2008. | |
| 22 Feb 09 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L02130936517 |
| 18 Feb 09 | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead :: V1744216401 listing details L1746512 |
| 12 Feb 09 to 14 Feb 09 | The Shaw Theatre, Inner London :: V01704341023 listing details L01648246291 |
| 9 Feb 09 | Royal & Derngate, Northampton :: V449 listing details L216074458 |
| 3 Feb 09 | Bridgewater Hall, Manchester :: V1208 listing details L1309965032 |
T0761980903Jazz legend and triple Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand gives a rare London concert performing his own work accompanied by two of the world’s top jazz musicians. Guest performers are Ruthie Henshall and Julian Ovenden, who will perform songs from their principal roles in Marguerite, and French singer and actress Marie Zamora who, in recent years, has guest starred in Michel Legrand’s concerts around the world. Jonathan Kent’s production of Marguerite - a new musical with music by Michel Legrand, book by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jonathan Kent, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and orchestrations and arrangements by Michel Legrand and Seann Alderking - runs at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 7 MayPerformer Ruthie Henshall. Performer Julian Ovenden. | |
| 13 Apr 08 | Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End :: V396 listing details L2134533811 |
