A trumpeter by training, Jean Gobinet has worked as a performer or arranger with Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Didier Lockwood, the Orchestre National de Jazz, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, Henri Salvador, Gilbert Bécaud and many others.
Awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 1986, he spent two years in Los Angeles, studying film music with David Angel, Allyn Ferguson and Joe Harnell.
His work includes arranging for the soundtrack of The Artist, whose score won an Academy Award, a César and other international honours.