Alexandre Desplat

Award-winning French-Greek film composer Alexandre Desplat - whose received his second Best Soundtrack Oscar this year for "The Shape of Water," after bagging his first for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" in 2015 - will hold a masterclass at the Athens Conservatory on Tuesday, April 24, starting at noon.

French-born composer Alexandre Desplat won his first Oscar after eight nominations. He gave a shout to his Greek mother from the stage. The composer's Greek mother and French father met while attending College at Berkeley though Desplat grew up in france.