French film music specialist Stéphane Lerouge is the creator and curator of Universal Music France’s acclaimed soundtrack series Écoutez le cinéma!, through which he has restored and released the work of composers including Michel Legrand, Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Quincy Jones, Howard Shore, Francis Lai, Lalo Schifrin, Gabriel Yared, Alexandre Desplat and John Williams. The series also includes box sets devoted to filmmakers such as Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Roman Polanski, Costa-Gavras and Martin Scorsese. Lerouge regularly moderates talks, conferences and round-table discussions dedicated to film music, particularly at the Festival de Cannes, the Cinémathèque Française and the Venice International Film Festival. Since 2017, he has also curated the film music section of the SACEM Online Museum. His publications include Conversations avec Antoine Duhamel (Textuel, 2007), devoted to the composer of films by Truffaut, Godard and Tavernier; L’Alphabet de la musique de film (Gallimard, 2000); and J’ai le regret de vous dire oui(Fayard, 2018), the memoirs of Michel Legrand, co-written with the composer himself. In 2016, he collaborated with filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier on the film music sections of the landmark documentary Voyage à travers le cinéma français (My Journey Through French Cinema). Since 2022, Stéphane Lerouge has worked with CAM Sugar on the reissue programme dedicated to the label’s French soundtrack catalogue.