Fred Avril Magnon is a French film composer based in Montmartre, Paris. As a singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for two albums that showed a strong link with cinema.
He got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director Johnnie To. His quasi-musical Man Jeuk's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China. Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise" (Semaine de la critique, Cannes) about "sonic bombing ». he then composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" (Liz W. Garcia) with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance.
Other projects featured singers Mick Harvey (former member of the Bad Seeds) and late Christophe (singer). He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success Connasse, Princesse des cœurs introducing Camille Cottin.
In 2018 he composed the main theme for Netflix Original The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on Youtube and was streamed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by BMG records (US). But Fred Avril also writes orchestral music, for example in I Am Not an Easy Man (2017 Netflix Original, produced in the US). He won the Emile Award (European equivalent of US Annie Awards) of the Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.