death_date death_place years_active birth_place label article_title background birth_date instrument genre origin name occupation
10 may 2012 guincho cascais , portugal 1980s -- 2012 lisbon , portugal clean feed bernardo sassetti
 non_vocal_instrumentalist 24 june 1970 piano jazz lisbon , portugal bernardo sassetti musician , film composer , music educator
bernardo sassetti

bernardo da costa sassetti pais -lrb- 24 june 1970 -- 10 may 2012 -rrb- was a portuguese jazz pianist and film composer .
sassetti was born in lisbon .
he was a great-grandson of sidónio pais , president of the first republic .
he initially played guitar , then began studying piano and music theory at age nine .
he became interested in jazz after hearing bill evans .
by the late 1980s , he was backing visiting musicians and teaching jazz piano in lisbon -lrb- and , later , taught throughout other lusophonic areas -rrb- .
during the 1990s , he worked in london , where he recorded three albums with guy barker 's group .
anthony minghella invited them to appear as the napoli jazz sextet in `` the talented mr. ripley '' .
his 2006 album `` unreal : sidewalk cartoon '' received a four-star rating -lrb- of a possible four -rrb- in `` the penguin guide to jazz '' -lrb- 9th ed . -rrb-
, and was selected for `` the penguin jazz guide : the history of the music in the 1000 best albums '' .
in addition to his jazz work , sassetti has composed numerous film scores .
bernardo sassetti was married to actress beatriz batarda , with whom he had two daughters .
he died on 10 may 2012 , after falling off a cliff in guincho cascais -lrb- portugal -rrb- , where he was reportedly shooting pictures for his next book .
