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Born in France in 1968, Jerome Baur grew up in Paris on the Montmartre hillock and have lived in Switzerland since 2000. In 1970 his parents were cartoon filmmakers. They have given to him a taste for music, storytelling, improvising and harmonies. When Jerome Baur was ten, he learnt to play the drums and then the piano at the Music Conservatory. For seven years, he was a student of the jazz piano player and composer Michel Sardaby. He taught him a sense of rigor, melody and the capacity of noticing more the essence rather than the form of things.
When he turned eighteen, Jerome Baur attended the school of songs and performing arts (SACEM in Paris) for two years. At the same time, he approached film production agencies in Paris and started to work for the pictures in 1989. He also worked in studios and on stage where he met artists from all over the world: Algeria, Mali, Madagascar, Philippines, the USA, Denmark, Italy, Japan, West Indies, Brazil and Greenland. Thanks to them Jerome Baur have created a large musical palette, which is for him his own major tool.
His music is a mixture of authentic ethnic music with to the possibilities offered by the new technologies and the specific needs of the fields he has worked for. In 1995, while still in Paris, Jerome Baur met the playwright Giacomo Ravicchio, for whom he has composed soundtracks for the last twenty years.
In 2005, he joined the Union of Film Music Composers of Switzerland (UFMC) as secretary-general for eight years. He scored the film «STOLEN HOLIDAYS» directed by Olivier Peyon and starring Bernadette Lafont and Claude Brasseur. His soundtrack have received the Suisa Foundation prize - Best Film Music - at the International Film Festival of Locarno 2008. Since 1990 he has composed music for many documentaries, extreme sports films, television, brands, animation films, opera, theater and choreographic performances, in China, Japan, Denmark, France and Switzerland. In 2018, he cofounded the Swiss Association for Arts - Artecapt.ch.
in 2020, at the age of 52, Jérôme Baur signs his 52nd soundtrack for the theater performance with always the same pleasure to share new stories and make the public vibrate through his music.
ABOUT YOUR MUSIC?
« It’s a tricky exercise to talk about your own music. I suppose that in my case, at a certain moment of my life, language as a form of expression wasn’t enough and music represented the alternative to it. I consider music as colors and energy I have been collecting along my path and I use it to respond to emotions I wish to share. Film music, opera or theater are the marriage, the union (that we hope sacred) of three tools of expression, which are incomplete on their own: words, images and music. I like to think those artistic expressions are above all the meeting with “the other” with an idea of impulse of life. I’ve also had the chance of learning music with a teacher of both life and music and to meet people from all over the world, who have opened up my senses to other sounds and cultures. I have also had the chance of working both on stage and studios, to use a technology, which is in constant evolution and allow the mix between synthesis and organic, and to meet masters of the dramatic art and show business. My music is therefore marked by the symbiosis of all these elements. I appreciate when my music is able to give by the vibes the feeling of:” I know this music, it’s familiar…” and few seconds after:” but inside, there is something unusual…”. It’s my leitmotiv (all over the world) and a real motivation. Music has this power to enable us to transcend borders, whether cultural, spatial or temporal and, this idea sound with the sentence:” Stand on the shoulders of the giants and look further…”. »
