Alexis Maingaud

Born into a family of musicians, Alexis Maingaud began his musical journey at the age of six by learning to play the violin. From a young age, he listened to the music of greats such as Wagner, Brahms, Khachaturian, Ravel, Debussy, Shostakovich, Saint-Saëns and Dukas, always trying to reproduce what he heard on the family piano.

After several years occupying the different violin desks of the youth orchestra at the National Music School of Aulnay-sous-Bois, he finally chose the piano, which he had already been self-teaching himself for several years.

After studying writing, composition and conducting, he joined Guillaume Connesson's orchestration class at the regional conservatory of La Courneuve-Aubervilliers. In addition to his musical studies, Alexis Maingaud graduated with a Bachelor’s in Musicology (Sorbonne - Paris IV) and a higher education diploma in sound techniques (ESRA Paris). This latter experience enabled him to meet a number of young aspiring directors, for whom he would write his first scores.

After scoring over sixty short films, several documentaries and commercials around the world, he composed his first feature-length original soundtrack, for Olivier Wright’s debut film Psi (2017). In 2018, he was hired by British filmmaker Andrew Desmond to write the music for his film The Sonata, featuring Simon Abkarian and Rutger Hauer. For this, he conducted the National Orchestra of Ile-de-France and inaugurated the orchestra's brand-new recording studio.