Michael John Galasso was an American composer, violinist, and music director.

Film Scores

Galasso wrote music for films, including Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...

's "In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung...

", Babak Payami

Babak Payami

-Biography:Born in Tehran in 1966, Baback Payami studied cinema at the University of Toronto during the early 90's. In 1998, he returned to Iran after an almost two decade to produce and direct his debut "One More Day" or “Secret Ballot”. This flim describes what happens on election day when an...

's "Secret Ballot

Secret Ballot (film)

Secret Ballot is an Iranian film from 2001. It was directed by Babak Payami. The film covers a day in the life of a female voting agent collecting votes on an island in Iran.-Plot summary:...

" and Turkish directors Yeşim Ustaoğlu

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

- Life and career :Ustaoğlu was born in Çaykara in eastern Turkey and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at the Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, she worked as an architect, then as a journalist and a film critic. Before she made her feature film debut The Trace...

's "Waiting for the Clouds" and Derviş Zaim

Dervis Zaim

Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...

's "Mud".

He won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...

 in 2009 for the film Séraphine

Séraphine (film)

Séraphine is a 2008 French-Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film.-Plot:...

, directed by Martin Provost.

Sound Installations

Galasso made numerous sound installations, including the Giorgio Armani Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2000 (the first sound installation in the New York Guggenheim's history) and the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2001.

Discography

• Scenes (ECM, 1984)
• Scan Lines (Igloo, 1985)
• High Lines
  High Lines
  High Lines is an album by American composer and violinist Michael Galasso recorded between 2002 and 2004 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Richard S...
  
  (ECM, 2005)

External links

• Legacy.com