Claude Chalhoub
Composer, Violin, Viola, Synthesizers
A fluent classical musician, Claude Chalhoub has served as concertmaster of Maestro Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan’ Orchestra. His debut release on Warner’s Teldec produced by Michael Brook in 2000 was a success. Diwan is the second album released by Herzog records, in collaboration with the Gewandhaus Orchester of Leipzig, Germany. As a film composer in 2019, Claude composed the film score for The Cost of Silence directed by Mark Manning, and Johannes Kepler – der Himmelsstuermer directed by Christian Twente. Other films he composed the score for include HBO’s documentary Koran by Heart directed by Greg Baker, Persona non Grata directed by Oliver Stone. Claude’s music was used on numerous films including Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn, Germany’s ZDF TV series Kommissar und das Meer, Yes by Sally Potter, and Anwesend/Abwesend, a short film by artist Freda Heyden. Claude lives in Vienna, Austria.