Younes Bahri is a film composer with more than a decade of work across film and television, moving between the war biopic, long form drama, comedy, and the symphonic stage.
His scores include Lotfi, directed by Academy Award winning director Ahmed Rachedi, Yemma (Seasons 2 and 3, dir. Madih Belaïd), and Dar Lefchouche (dir. Djaffar Gacem). He is currently scoring two major feature films for director Yasmine Chouikh, Benkhlouf and Si El Haoues. In 2024 he composed and orchestrated Thaman El Houria, the first full scale live orchestral musical staged in Algeria, written for a symphony orchestra and choir and performed at the National Opera House. He has conducted Symphony Orchestras and has worked with the National Opera House across multiple productions .
What holds the work together is melody. Bahri builds from it outward rather than toward it, trusting the line that carries a scene over the machinery beneath it. The result is orchestrally assured and unmistakably his.
He is a voting member of the World Soundtrack Academy and a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists and the Ivors Academy.
He is a multi instrumentalist, working from the piano and writing fluently for a wide range of world instruments, including world flutes, instruments he treats as voices rather than colour.
Across orchestration, conducting, and the score itself, the discipline is the same: clarity of theme, precision of feeling, nothing decorative.
