See also: Michel, Portal

Michel Portal is a type-setter and musician French, born the November 25th 1935 with Bayonne (France).

Particularly eclectic, its field of predilection is to be saxophonist, clarinettist of Jazz, but it is also interprets of Classical music: Mozart, Brahms, Berg, Swell, Stockhausen, Berio, Kagel… and type-setter, in particular of original soundtracks of films and Téléfilm S. the album Cinema' S gathers some of his compositions.

Michel Portal begins her career in the Classical music before directing himself towards the Jazz. It is at the origin with some others of the Free movement in France. It creates the " Michel Portal Unit" who accommodates the European and American musicians privileging the free improvisation. Its music jouissive, vehement, lyric, inventive, interrogative is a perpetual questioning of human and structures.

It obtains the first following prices:

• Conservatory Higher National of Music of Paris in 1959
• international Contest of Geneva and the Swiss Jubilee in 1963
• National Grand Prix of the Music in 1983

He frequently plays with the Accordéon ist Richard Galliano, the beater Daniel Humair or the double bass player Henri Texier.

Discography

• Bird-watcher (Emarcy-Universal Music)

• Mineapolis
• Blow up (with R. Galliano)
• Dockings
• Cinema' S
• Any Way
• Town Hall
• Men' S Land
• Splendid Yzlment
• Arrivederci Chouartse
• Turbulence
• Dejarme solo
• Chateauvallon 76
• It camino
• Michel Portal, John Surman, Bars Philips, Stu Martin, Jean-Pierre Drouet " Then!!! " - Futura Ger 12 (1970)
• Michel Portal, Steven Kent, Mino Cinelu - BURUNDI

Catalog of films

Cinema

• Gromaire (1967) (short film)
• the Rape (1968)
• Money-Money (1969) (Michel Portal made there an appearance in the role of a musician)
• an only son (1969)
• Hoa-Binh (1970)
• France public limit company (1974) (sequence of the bar)
• Cécilia (1975)
• Conquistadores (1976)
• Seraglio ( 1976)
• For Clemence (1977)
• the Adoption (1979)
• the Dogs (1979)
• Listening to see… (1979)
• red Shade (1981)
• Coffee Diving board (1982)
• short Memory (1982)
• the Return of Martin War (1982)
• Stray bullets (1983)
• Riders of the storm (1984)
• the Voyage (1984)
• Arm wrestling (1985)
• max my love (1986)
• black Milan (1987)
• Field of honor (1987)
• Yeelen - the Light (1987)
• the Monk and the witch (1987)
• In all innocence (1988)
• Captive (1988)
• Die Toten Fische (1989)
• a history of wind (1989)
• Children of the disorder (1989)
• Los Ángeles (1990)
• Three years (1990)
• Adventure of Catherine C. (1990)
• Ke arteko egunak (1990)
• Doctor Petiot (1990)
• the Return of Casanova (1992)
• the Machine (1994)
• the Beautiful summer 1914 (1996 )
• Buud Yam (1997)
• the Actor (1997)
• the Colors of the devil (1997) (songs)
• the Snake ate the frog (1998)
• It is what the life? (1999)
• Passionately (2000)
• IEA (2000)
• Te quiero (2001)
• Small Chartreuse (2005)
• Jean of the Fountain, the challenge (2006)

Television

• the Large inquistor (1979) (telefilm)

• the Man sandwich (1979) (telefilm)
• the Deaf person ear (1980) (telefilm)
• Right of reply (1981) (emission of TV)
• the Horsepower (1981) (telefilm)
• the black City (1981) (telefilm)
• the recalcitrant Gardener (1983) (telefilm)
• the blue Island (1983) (telefilm)
• Insane like the bird (1983) (telefilm)
• the Memorandum (1984) (telefilm)
• the Public enemy n° 2 (1984) (telefilm)
• Shangaï Skipper (1985) (telefilm)
• Good luck Mr Pic! (1987) (telefilm)
• new in the city (1987) (episode of the televised series " The Simenon" Hour;)
• Bouvard and Pecuchet (1989) (telefilm)
• the Train of Vienna (1989) (telefilm)
• a table for six (1989) (telefilm)
• Marie-Antoinette, queen of only one love (1989) (telefilm)
• With body and cries (1989) (telefilm)
• Devil downtown (1990) (episode of the televised series " Secret Files of the Lavardin" inspector;)
• Paintings of war (1990) (telefilm)
• Devil with the body (1990) (telefilm)
• the Friend Giono: Onorato (1990) (telefilm)
• the Friend Giono: Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff (1990) (telefilm)
• a table for six (1990) (episode of the televised series " V like vengeance")
• Alcyon (1990) (telefilm)
• My rascals (1992) (telefilm)
• the Fear (1992) (telefilm)
• For tomorrow (1993) (telefilm)
• Is & Western: Lost paradises (1993)
• Prohibition (1993) (telefilm)
• a sweater over the other (1993) (telefilm)
• Eugenie Grandet (1994) (telefilm)
• a motionless storm (1995) (telefilm)
• Captain Cyrano (1995) (telefilm)
• Fishing of Iceland (1996) (telefilm)
• the wise Child (1996) (telefilm)
• History of men (1996) (telefilm)
• Melanie (1997) (telefilm)
• My foreign children (1998) (telefilm)
• the Inventory, (1998) (telefilm)
• Fogs of Manchester (1998) (telefilm)
• Of liking or force (1998) (telefilm)
• the Layman (2000) (telefilm)
• the Debt (2000) (telefilm)
• the Friend of Patagonie (2002) (telefilm)
• Because of a boy (2002) (telefilm)
• the Child of the lights (2002) (mini-series)
• Under good guard (2002) (telefilm)
• a son of our time (2003) (telefilm)
• Éliane (2005) (telefilm)

Rewards

• César of the better music for the Return of Martin War in 1983, for Riders of the storm in 1985 and for Field of honor in 1988. It was also nominated in 1986 for Arm wrestling .
• 7 of Gold of the best music for the Friend Giono: Onorato and the Friend Giono: Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff in 1990, and for Eugenie Grandet in 1995.