“Even in France we are surprised when our work becomes successful. When you work on a project you just think about it rather than commercial success.”
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Yann Tiersen
Yann Pierre Tiersen is a French musician and composer from Brittany. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone,…
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entertainment · French musician and composer (born 1970) · composer · singer · pianist · film score composer · singer-songwriter · musician · multi-instrumentalist · also Yann Tiersen, Tiersen
Born 23 June 1970 · Q157256
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “#yanntiersen #music #relax #piano #livemusic”.
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Published video “#yanntiersen #livemusic #ontour”.
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Published video “Which song do you want to see Yann perform in the UK this September? #yanntiersen #piano #livemusic”.
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Published video “L'Absente 25th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue out 28 August. Available to pre-order now. #yanntiersen”.
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Published video “Kala, featuring Elizabeth Fraser from Yann’s 2006 live album On Tour. #yanntiersen #livemusic”.
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Published video “A look back at Yann’s two performances at Palp Festival in Switzerland. #yanntiersen #livemusic”.
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Published video “#yanntiersen #livemusic #music #nature #violin #vibes”.
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Published video “#yanntiersen #livemusic #electronicmusic #ontour #music”.
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Published video “On Tour DVD footage from the vaults! The 2026 On Tour LP reissue is available now #yanntiersen”.
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Published video “On the Wire live in Cambridge. #yanntiersen #ontour #livemusic”.
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2025· 3 entries
Released album “Rathlin From a Distance | The Liquid Hour”.
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Released ep “Caledonian Canal”.
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BroadwayWorld: Yann Tiersen Shares New Track 'Arne' From Upcoming Album
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2024· 1 entry
Jazz: Yann Tiersen
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2023· 4 entries
The Irish Times: Amélie composer Yann Tiersen: ‘I loved Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine’
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Released ep “Ker al Loch (Four Ways)”.
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Released album “Island”.
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Released album “Yann Tiersen: Eusa”.
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2022· 5 entries
Released album “Kerber Remixes”.
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Released album “11 5 18 2 5 18”.
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Released ep “Amélie's World: Piano Themes”.
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Released ep “11 5 18 2 5 18”.
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Released album “Kerber (Solo Piano)”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Kerber”.
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Released ep “Ker Yegu”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released ep “Lagniappe Session”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Portrait”.
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Released album “ALL”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “EUSA”.
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Released album “Ouragan: Bande originale du film”.
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Released ep “EUSA – Field Recordings”.
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Released ep “EUSA”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Pour Amélie: Piano Music”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Live in London”.
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Released album “∞”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “The Lighthouse / Everything's Calm”.
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2011· 5 entries
Released album “Skyline”.
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Miami New Times: Yann Tiersen on Destroying His Violin, Joy Division, and Rediscovering the Synth
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Tiersen collaborated with the Yellow Bird Project (YBP) to design a t-shirt, which was sold to raise money for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
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Tiersen, with Lionel Laquerriere and Thomas Poli, has also started Elektronische Staubband, a side project on electronic music
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Released ep “Dust Lane”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Dust Lane”.
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Tiersen also contributed to the tribute album to cross-genre, experimental music group Coil The Dark Age of Love by This Immortal Coil, a one-off tribute formation, and to Li(f)e, the fourth solo studio album by hip-hop
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Tabarly”.
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After a years-long break, creating the score for a documentary about the sailor Éric Tabarly
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “On Tour”.
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Released album “2006‐03‐06: Black Session @ “La Maison de la Radio”, Paris, France”.
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Also released two singles, "La Mancha" and "La Rade", and he was featured on The Endless Rise of the Sun, the third studio album by electronic group Smooth, Raides à la ville extended play by Katel, and 13m2 by David
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Les Retrouvailles”.
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Tiersen released his fifth studio album Les Retrouvailles
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Released album “Kalaboration”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright”.
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Awarded Victory of the original music album of cinema or television for Good Bye Lenin! (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Good Bye Lenin!”.
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Released ep “Good Bye Lenin!”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Music Planet 2Nite”.
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Released album “C’était ici”.
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But Tiersen and Régnier have since divorced
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain”.
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Released album “L’Absente”.
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Released ep “Amélie”.
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Released album “Yann Tiersen”.
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“Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi”
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Black Session”.
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Released album “Tout est calme”.
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Tiersen together with The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano released his first collaboration album, Tout est calme
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1998· 3 entries
Released ep “Bästard ~ Tiersen”.
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Released album “Le Phare”.
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In collaboration with French electronic rock band Bästard, and his first live album, Black Session: Yann Tiersen
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1997· 2 entries
Released ep “Avant la chute”.
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Collaborated with French rock band Noir Désir, the following year Tiersen and Dominique A released the single for "Monochrome", and, in collaboration with French electronic rock band Bästard, the EP Bästard ~ Yann Tie
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Rue des cascades”.
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Released ep “Rue des cascades”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “La Valse des monstres”.
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1983· 1 entry
At the age of thirteen, he broke his violin and bought an electric guitar
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1970· 2 entries
Born 1970-06-23.
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In Brest, in the department of Finistère, part of Brittany in northwestern France, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins
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