Biography

Composer Evgueni Galperine has written many film scores as well as independent works in a contemporary idiom, generally including electronics. His film scores, some of them for major Hollywood features, are mostly created collaboratively with his brother Sacha Galperine. Evgueni Galperine was born in 1974 in Chelyabinsk, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. His father, Youli Galperine, was a film composer of Ukrainian background, and the family moved to Kyiv when Evgueni was a child. After four years there, they moved to Moscow, where Galperine began to study music seriously. He enrolled at the Gnessin State Musical College. When he was 16, the family moved to Paris, France, and Galperine was able to continue his musical education there, first at the Conservatoire Boulogne (CRR Boulogne-Billancourt) and then at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD), studying composition and theory. After graduating, he wrote music for plays and for advertising. Meanwhile, Sacha Galperine studied violin but then switched to rock and electronic music. Evgueni's career as a film composer began with the Kurdish-German film Fratricide ("Brudermord") in 2005. Since 2003, Galperine has devoted much of his work to film music, first as a solo artist, then as a duo (since 2009) with Sacha. The career of the two brothers began with the production of the soundtrack for the 2010 film The Big Picture by Éric Lartigau. The Galperine brothers, able to draw on their diverse backgrounds, found themselves in demand. They provided works for major films, including those by such Hollywood directors as Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry Levinson, sometimes furnishing additional music, and sometimes, as for Levinson's 2017 film The Wizard of Lies, as lead soundtrack composers. Their score for the 2017 film Loveless received a European Film Award for best film score of the year. In 2020, they scored Radioactive, the biopic about scientist Marie Curie, and they returned in 2022 with the score to Lartigau's #iamhere. Galperine never abandoned his career as a composer of concert music, and he has continued to write compositions that often contain an electronic element. In 2022, he issued the solo album Evgueni Galperine: Theory of Becoming on the ECM New Series label. ~ James Manheim, Rovi