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.
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.
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.
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.
"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).
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.