We look forward to seeing you on 14 January at the IMEP for a masterclass dedicated to film music!

The masterclass will take place in Studio B from 7pm to 9pm. Admission is free for IMEP students (booking required). There is a €10 charge for non-IMEP students.

Topics covered :

• Training, guidelines and tools
• Career paths and projects
• Modernising tools / sound banks / recording and producing music in this day and age
• The importance of film music culture and knowing the environment of composers
• Relationships with other professions: directors/editors/producers
• Understanding the business and building a network. Music supervision, agents, music libraries
• The importance of themes and motifs
• “time tracks”
• Working on the image, working on the script
• Work on series vs work on short and feature films.

• the notion of orchestration and symphonic music in soundtracks.

• Advertising process

• Opening up to artificial intelligence

The speakers:

• Pierre Doursout: Saxophonist, Computer Music teacher and trainer, Pierre holds five Premier Prix from the CNSM de Paris in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Forms, Orchestration and the DFS with First Class Honours. Pierre teaches computer-aided music at the IMEP, CMA and CRR in Paris, and is an AVID Certified Instructor.

• Edouard Rigaudière and Anthony d’Amario: The two musicians, guitarist and pianist respectively, are former students of the IMEP, where they studied between 2011 and 2016 in the Free and Professional Cycle. In 2018, director Pascal Laugier called on them to compose the music for the film Ghostland, which won the Jury Prize at the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival that same year. In 2024, they composed the soundtrack for the Netflix film Sous la Seine.

• Robinson Senporauca: An alumnus of IMEP, from which he graduated in 2014, Robinson gained invaluable experience as an assistant to internationally renowned composers, working on feature films and series. This experience has propelled him into a prolific career, with over 32 acclaimed compositions for film and stage. Robinson’s score for Joanna Arnow’s feature film, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, received critical acclaim. The film was selected for the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and screened at Deauville, TIFF and the New York Film Festival.