École Internationale de Composition de Musique à l'Image  

Les candidatures pour la rentrée d'octobre  2025 sont ouvertes

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L’École des MUSICIENS passionnés par l’IMAGE
L’École Internationale de Composition de MUSIQUE à L’IMAGE (EICMI) est une école d'enseignement supérieur qui forme
en 3 à 5 ans les prochaines générations de compositeurs et compositrices spécialisés dans la création de musiques pour films, séries télévisées, jeux vidéo, publicités, musiques de scène
et autres arts visuels.


Penser et inclure le travail des compositeurs et compositrices dès la genèse d'une œuvre audiovisuelle. Imposer leur place de troisième auteur-autrice dans la création d'un film, d'un jeu vidéo, ou d'une musique de scène. Défendre ce rôle essentiel au succès d'une œuvre auprès des producteurs et diffuseurs et  former des compositeurs et des compositrices pour qu'ils puissent occuper pleinement cette place de 3ème auteur-autrice, c'est la volonté et le rôle de l'EICMI, première école en France entièrement dédiée à la Composition de Musique à l'Image".

Emmanuelle Gaume, directrice et fondatrice de l'EICMI
INTEGRATING EICMI
Intégrer l’EICMI, École Internationale de Composition de Musique à l'Image,
c’est vouloir se former aux
techniques de la composition musicale à l’image.
Vous vous sentez débutants, sans savoir où et comment commencer à écrire ?
Alors l’école est faite pour vous !
Vous avez déjà des notions d'écriture, vous êtes musicien.ne, vous voulez
vous spécialiser dans la musique à l'image, venez étudiez dans une école entièrement consacrée à la musique à l'image.
Nous cherchons avant tout des artistes en devenir, des étudiant.es sensibles et ouvert.es, avec un bon esprit et prêt.es à s’investir pour les 3 à 5 ans à venir
afin d'apprendre à maîtriser
les techniques de composition de musique à l’image.

Bachelor 1: Fundamentals

CORE MODULES • Composition for screen: learn the basics of musical composition for the image • Music theory - ear training, solfège • Music theory - introduction to the techniques of harmony and counterpoint • Orchestration, instrumentation and arrangement: how to write well for various groups • Musical analysis: stylistic and formal analysis of works from the repertoire. • Keyboard harmony: learn to harmonize melodies in different styles • History and aesthetics of music • History of cinema and film music WORKSHOPS • Sound creation: acquire the cultural, technical and artistic knowledge necessary for all musical practices based on the tools of the recording studio • Electronic music production • Culture and techniques of cinema • Master classes: meetings with professional artists around their works • Vocal and body workshops: work on the voice and musical movement • Collaborative practice and creation of musical works

Bachelor 2: Consolidation

CORE MODULES • Composition for screen • Orchestration, instrumentation, arrangement • Music theory - ear training, solfège • Music theory - harmony, counterpoint • Music theory - keyboard harmony • Music theory - analysis • Music history • Cinema and film music history WORKSHOPS • Sound creation • Improvisation • Electronic music production • Culture and techniques of cinema • Master classes • Collaborative practice and creation of musical works • Orchestral conducting: learning to conduct your own works • Learning the basics of filmmaking and editing • Sound design • Audio production and recording: studio recording techniques, editing, mixing and mastering

Bachelor 3: Pre-specialization

CORE MODULES • Composition for screen • Orchestration, instrumentation, arrangement • Music theory - ear training, solfège • Jazz music theory : harmony, composition • Music theory - harmony, counterpoint • Music theory - keyboard harmony • Music theory - analysis • Film music analysis • Music notation software • Pre-specialization : Advanced composition techniques: exploration of advanced composition styles and techniques, including interactive music for video games and production for the metaverse. WORKSHOPS • Sound creation • Improvisation • Electronic music production • Techniques of cinema • Master classes • Collaborative practice and creation of musical works • Orchestral conducting: learning to conduct your own works • Audio production and recording: studio recording techniques, editing, mixing and mastering • Marketing, communication and career development

 "Le monde de l’image a une place dominante dans notre société actuelle. Elle touche toutes les générations, les fait rêver, les fédère et les rend heureux. Nous n’allons pas former de simples compositeurs et compositrices, nous allons allumer en elles et eux l’étincelle du plaisir,
de la créativité et de l’amour de l’image 
dans toutes ses définitions."
Adrien Locciola,
Directeur des études et
professeur de Formation Musicale à l'EICMI 

Emmanuel d'Orlando

Professor of Music Composition at L'Image

En 2024, Emmanuel D’Orlando co-signe avec Antoine Berjeaut la partition de l’adaptation du film animé Silex and the City de Jul et Jean-Paul Guigue, en sélection officielle au festival de Cannes 2024. Nommé aux César 2013 avec la BO du film Populaire de Regis Roinsard co-composée avec Rob, Emmanuel arrange, orchestre et compose des musiques additionnelles pour le film Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser, en collaboration avec Alex Beaupain, réalisé par Christophe Honoré dont la musique originale estégalement nommée aux César 2008. A l’aise dans de nombreux style où l’orchestre peut se déployer au service des émotions, il compose de nombreuses partitions originales pour le cinéma et la télévision au cours de sa carrière et travaille avec des réalisateurs et réalisatrices tels que Gilles Marchand pour L’Autre monde sélectionné au Festival de Cannes en 2010, Florent Emilio Siri, Audrey Dana, Gorun Aprikian ou plus récemment Sonia Rolland avec laquelle il entretient une véritable complicité artistique et qui lui confie la musique originale de son film Un destin inattendu pour France TV. En 2018, il compose également la musique originale de la série HP d'Angela Soupe pour OCS (Prix de la meilleure série 26 minutes au Fetsival de La rochelle 2018, Sélectionnée au Colcoa French Film Festival de Los Angeles et au festival de Monté Carlo) Emmanuel est également connu pour ses arrangements de la célèbre Ritournelle de Sébastien Tellier et travaille également pour le luxe, la publicité et la mode. Il écrit ainsi un ballet pour Cartier en 2010 avec la chorégraphe Blanca Li et arrange et dirige en 2014 la musique de Sébastien Tellierpour le défilé Chanel au Grand Palaisainsi que les musiques des 4 défilés Balmain. Les valeurs de transmission lui tenant à cœur, il a enseigné la composition à l’image au conservatoire Paul Dukas de Paris pendant sept ans avant de rejoindre l'EICMI.

Adrien Locciola

Director of Studies - Professor of Music Theory (ear training, solfège)

Adrien Locciola is a teacher with a passion for teaching music, and has a graduate degree in music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. He has been teaching for 18 years. As a pianist, singer and bassoonist, and a musician in a wind band and a symphony orchestra, he is not afraid to diversify his disciplines and challenge himself in order to offer a comprehensive education. Putting the body and the voice at the center of musical learning thanks to active methods, he succeeds in making musical training fun and lively. A true concentrate of optimism and good humor, he encourages his students to highlight their qualities while accepting their mistakes, making them constructive and positive. Passionate about video games, animated films and cinema in general, he has always used the music from these as a teaching aid. Curious, athletic and enthusiastic, Adrien Locciola does not neglect either the body or the mind on a daily basis.

Theo Harfoush

Professor of sound creation and computer music. Sound creation is taught under three aspects: technique, culture, creation

Théo Harfoush is a musician, performance artist and author. After a career as a sound technician in radio and documentary, he devoted himself to musical composition and interactive sound design, with independent video game studios, and in the contemporary art world (Mirari Games, GLKT, Ignilife). His work then combines orchestral music, traditional Asian music, electronic sound transformations and choir work. In 2019, he met the director Otomo de Manuel (founder of Totem de Maxéville) and began to compose and perform his music for live shows: in theater, cabaret, circus, (Cie Poppydog, Bouche-à-Bouche, Cabaret Le Secret, CIAM) and became a performer and show creator himself, with his company Paon-Pie Paon-Pie. His work then focused on the articulation between singing and electronic music.

Alexander Deuschle

Professor of Music Theory (harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, keyboard harmony)

Alexander Deuschle is a Dutch composer and teacher based in France. He studied composition, music theory and orchestration at the Conservatoire Régional de Reims, the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva and the Royal Conservatory of Mons. He holds a Master’s degree in music theory, specializing in classical composition. He is also qualified by the Sorbonne University where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in musicology. He studied with Michael Jarrell, Luis Naon, Daniel D’Adamo, Jean-Pierre Deleuze and Thomas Foguenne, amongst others. His music has been premiered in France, Switzerland and Belgium. His catalog includes works for soloists, ensembles, chamber groups, electro-acoustic pieces, educational compositions, as well as orchestrations and arrangements. His passion for film music and cinema led him to turn towards composition for visual media. Also passionate about teaching and transmission, he has taught piano and music theory at a variety of music schools.

Emmanuelle Gaume Founding Director of EICMI

"Thinking about and including the work of composers from the genesis of an audiovisual work, imposing their place as third author in the creation of a film, a video game, or stage music, defending this essential role in the success of a work with producers and broadcasters and training composers so that they can fully occupy this place of 3rd author, this is the will and the role of the EICMI."

Emmanuelle Gaume has over thirty years of experience in audiovisual production. Author, director, producer, audiovisual press journalist since 1993, and novelist. Her eclectic career is testimony to an ever-awakening curiosity. Her love of music, cinema and literature, and her training at the Beaux-Arts, have led her down a wide variety of audio-visual paths, from France Musique (Radio France) to ARTE, via Entertainment Tonight on TF1, and Nulle part ailleurs on Canal+. She co-founded and managed the music label Intrada with the composer Eric Tanguy for more than 10 years. In February 2016, she directed her first documentary film on “Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in history”, with Alexandra Lamy in the role of Alice Guy. She is currently co-producing a six-episode TV series with France Télévision and Wild Bunch based on her book on Alice Guy (published by PLON).

External professional lecturers

EICMI uses numerous professionals from the fields of music for images and cinema, animated cinema, video games, visual arts, in order to guarantee its students an education covering the wide variety of techniques and positions present in the audiovisual production and performing arts industry.

The EICMI premises

The EICMI premises

Located in the center of Châteauroux, just opposite the train station, the EICMI occupies a 2,500 m2 building entirely dedicated to the school. All classrooms and individual work areas are equipped with digital pianos and keyboards. The computer-assisted music rooms have 20 workstations equipped with computers, midi keyboards, Sibelius Ultimate Subsciption, Pro Tools Studio, Cubase, Ableton software, professional orchestral and electronic sound libraries, headphones and speakers. The school also provides its students with a library of musical scores, as well as a conference and projection room. © Photo: Benjamin Steimes - Châteauroux Métropole

EICMI film club

EICMI film club

Organized in partnership with Apollo / Equinoxe scène nationale. Located 5 minutes' walk from the EICMI, the Apollo cinema is a magnificent historic theater with 328 seats, a balcony, and digital, 35mm and 16mm projectors. The program is mainly dedicated to arthouse cinema: French and foreign auteur films and repertory films. It presents works from all over the world (in original version with subtitles). Auteur films, newsreels, heritage films, first works, short film programs, cycles, documentary films and programs for young audiences. In partnership with the Apollo, the EICMI programs a film season focused on the place of music in cinema and in connection with the school's educational program. Master classes and meetings with composers, directors, music supervisors, editors and producers are organized at the Apollo throughout the year for EICMI students and the public of Châteauroux-Métropole. www.equinoxe-chateauroux.fr © Photo: Benjamin Steimes - Châteauroux Métropole

PRÉ-REQUIS ADMISSION :

PRATIQUER UNE ACTIVITÉ ARTISTIQUE EN LIEN AVEC LA MUSIQUE 

  • Avoir une pratique musicale préalable, au minimum autodidacte. Les pratiques non-instrumentales sont admissibles (chant, écriture pure, musiques électroniques)
  • Avoir déjà composé au moins une musique originale et fournir une démonstration de son travail.



DÉROULEMENT DE LA SÉLECTION :

Les candidat.es passent un concours commun comportant 2 épreuves sur 2 périodes différentes : 

1 / Cette épreuve se déroule en distanciel. Chaque candidat.e préalablement sélectionné.e sur dossier recevra par mail un court métrage  en cours de réalisation, il.elle devra écrire la musique de ce film court dans un temps imposé.

 Les dates sont communiquées à chaque candidat.e pré-sélectionné.e par l'EICMI.


2 / Un entretien de motivation face à un jury composé de professionnels de la composition de musique à l'image et des membres de l'équipe pédagogique de l'EICMI sera requis, ainsi qu'une épreuve artistique libre. Cette rencontre fera l'objet d'une présentation des travaux personnels du candidat ou de la candidate. L'entretien devra être étayé sur des références culturelles liées au cinéma, au cinéma d'animation, au jeu vidéo, à la musique, à la musique pour l'image. Entretien de 15 mn.

 Les dates sont communiquées à chaque candidat.e pré-sélectionné.e par l'EICMI.

FRAIS DE CONCOURS 2025  : 125€  


EICMI Tuition Fees

EICMI Tuition Fees

For the start of the 2025 academic year, the annual tuition fee is €7,500, payable in one or more installments.

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  • EICMI 3 place de la Gare, Châteauroux, France