Biography
Paul Cantelon is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. He is also a violinist, pianist and accordionist, and a founding member of the alternative band Wild Colonials.
Cantelon was born in Glendale, California. He studied at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and the Conservatoire de Paris. He composed the score for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and has written music for films including Everything Is Illuminated (2005), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), W. (2008) and At Eternity's Gate (2018).
He suffered a serious bicycle accident at the age of 17 that resulted in a coma and amnesia, after which he relearned his musical skills.
