Nicolas Rabaeus

Professeur de composition à l'image - musique et cinéma

Département(s) associé(s) : Composition and theory department
Téléphone : +41 22 558 76 16
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Born in Geneva on 6 May 1984, Nicolas Rabaeus is a Swiss composer specialising in music for moving images. He mainly creates his music by recording and synthesising instruments and objects in his studio in Geneva, which he then combines with other musicians and ensembles.

Classically and jazz trained, he is equally comfortable with an orchestra in a concert hall as he is creating experimental textures with a modular synthesiser, or even with a guitar playing pop songs. This horizontal approach to music is his signature and helps him find a unique sound for each score.

His music has won several awards, including the Swiss Film Award (2023, for Foudre), the Colombier-Dompierre Award in Montreal (2023, for Foudre), and the Kinotavr Award in Sochi (2015, for Le syndrome de Petrushka).

Over the past fifteen years, he has worked on more than fifty projects with European and Swiss filmmakers.

Nicolas Rabaeus