Laurent Perez del Mar started playing the piano at a very early age. He studied music at the Conservatoire and majored in composition. On top of his musical curriculum, he also studied medicine and became an MD.

With music his first calling, he moved to Paris where he was very quickly scouted by major advertising agencies (Publicis, TBWA, Ogilvy, Young&Rubicam to name a few) and started working with them.

After scoring more than twenty short films and forty commercials (Bronze Lion in Cannes for BETC Euro RSCG) along with various TV shows, he wrote his first feature film score in 2007 for FEAR OF THE DARK by Prima Linea. This underground animation movie was released to critical acclaim.

He recently wrote the score for feature animation ZARAFA, by award-winning director Rémi Bezançon (3 Césars for THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE) and award-nominee Jean-Christophe Lie (2011 Césars for L’HOMME A LA GORDINI). Zarafa was nominated for the César 2013 of best animated...