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DIDIER
LEAN RACHOU
COMPOSER
Selected Television Credits...
• Gold Rush (DISCOVERY)
RAW Television UK
• Deadliest Catch (DISCOVERY)
Original Productions
• Human Planet (BBC)
BBC/ Discovery
*US score
• Storm Chasers (DISCOVERY)
Original Media
• Sex and the City (HBO)
Darren Star Productions
• Dual Survival (DISCOVERY)
Original Media
• Love Monkey (CBS)
Paramount Network Television
• Aquaman (WB)
Warner Bros. Television
• Malcolm in the Middle (FOX)
20th Century FOX Television
*additional music
• Bering Sea Gold (DISCOVERY)
Original Productions
• Undressed (MTV)
MTV Networks
• Long Island Medium (TLC)
Magilla Entertainment
• The Next Food Network Star (Food Network)
CBS Eye Too Productions
• Desperate Housewives (ABC)
Marc Cherry Productions
*additional music
Selected Film Credits...
• Powder Blue
Tracee Stanley, Bobby Schwartz, prods.
Tim Linh Bui, dir.
Grosvenor Park Productions
Starring Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel
• Moving McAllister
Ben Gourley, prod.
Andrew Black, dir.
First Independent Pictures
Starring Mila Kunis and John Heder
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DIDIER
LEAN R ACHOU
COMPOSER
• Ocean’s Twelve
Jerry Weintraub, prod.
Steven Soderbergh, dir.
*technical scoring advisor
Warner Bros.
• How to Rob a Bank
Arthur Sarkissian, exec. prod.
Andrews Jenkins, dir.
IFC Films
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kathleen Kennedy,Frank Marshall, prods.
David Fincher, dir.
*arranged ballet music
Paramount Pictures
• My Best Friend’s Girl
Adam Herz, Barry Katz, prods.
Howard Deutch, dir.
*song “Irish Jigged”
Lionsgate
• Shut Up & Sing
Barbara Kopple, prod.
Cecelia Peck, dir.
*song “Sawblade”
The Weinstein Company
• Night at the Museum
Chris Columbus, prod.
Shawn Levy, dir.
*song “Casing the Joint”
Twentieth Century-FOX Film Corp.
• Her Best Move
Norm Hunter, dir.
Summertime Films
MGM
• The Cave
GaryLucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, prods.
Bruce Hunt, dir
*song “Highlander”
Screen Gems
• Dirty Deeds
David Kendall, dir.
Green Diamond Ent.
Freestyle Releasing
• Surviving D-Day (documentary)
Richard Dale, dir.
Dangerous Films UK
France 2/ DISCOVERY
Education/ Misc
• Private composition studies at The Juilliard School, NYC
• BM, Manhattan School of Music
• ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop participant and a Sundance Composer Lab finalist
• Produced/Composed/Arranged Christy Baron’s CD, Steppin’ featuring David Johansen
• Has conducted the Prague Philharmonic and Hollywood Studio Symphony
• Engineer for Ashford and Simpson, 1999-2002
• Dual-citizenship with France and the USA (also have UK holdings)
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LEAN RACHOU
COMPOSER
B i o g r a p h y
Raised in Europe and New York City, Didier relocated his studio to the Hollywood Hills.
He immediately landed several choice projects and has been busy ever since. Didier is
fast becoming known for his innovative, lyrical and compelling scores, as well as for his
inclusive collaborative process and meticulous attention to detail.
Didier was drawn to music and the arts at a very young age, his ears being twisted by
many musical dialects along the way. It was as a young boy on holiday in Casablanca,
during a screening of an ancient print of Papillon, that he found his calling. In that
makeshift Casbah cinema, complete with a white linen sheet screen and mono
loudspeaker, Didier became captivated by the power of music married to the moving
image. Living in Europe and NYC expanded his cultural awareness and influenced his
music.
The son of world-renowned French chef Jean-Jacques Rachou (of La Côte Basque fame),
he learned first-hand how to balance art and commerce in a high-pressured environment.
L’haute cuisine also instilled within him an insane work ethic. Fortunately, he emerged
from <<la cuisine>> with all of his digits still intact...
After receiving his BA in Composition and Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School
of Music, he studied composition privately at The Juilliard School.
Didier holds dual-citizenship with France and the US.
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