He studied with the famous Nadia Boulanger in Paris, has composed film scores (with Oscar nominations), chamber music, and recently an opera based on the theme of the legend of Gilgamesh. He is best known in Gurdjieff circles as the composer and arranger of Thomas de Hartmann’s music for Peter Brook’s film of Gurdjieff’s book entitled ‘Meeting with Remarkable Men’. Laurence Rosenthal is known also as one of the editors of the complete Gurdjieff/de Hartmann piano works published by Schott editions in four volumes, and as a pianist who has promoted this music tirelessly world wide and on disc. Laurence Rosenthal is based in San Francisco and is engaged in researching the meaning behind the ideas of Gurdjieff’s teaching.