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International School
of Music Composition
for Film

Train in music composition for film, television, video games, and stage at a school 100% dedicated to music for the screen.
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The school for musicians with a passion for the screen

At EICMI, we prepare you in 3 to 5 years for a career in film and media scoring. Learn to create original scores for movies, TV, video games, commercials, live shows, and other audiovisual productions.

« To think of and include the work of the composer from the start of an audiovisual piece , to assert their position as the third writer in the creation of a film, a video game or a staged production, to defend this essential role in the success of a piece to the producers and broadcasters and to train composers to fully occupy this space of third writer is the desire and the role of the EICMI.”

Emmanuelle Gaume, head and founder of EICMI

« The audiovisual world is a dominant part of our society today. It touches every generation, making them dream , uniting them, and bringing them happiness. We’re not only going to shape composers, we are going to light in them a spark of delight for image in all of its forms.”

Adrien Locciola, Program Director and Musical Training Professor of EICMI



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Expert and passionate team

You will be taught by renowned professionals: composers, arrangers, orchestrators, sound engineers, directors, and audiovisual specialists. These teachers are first and foremost passionate about and invested in sharing their knowledge and experiences. You will benefit from an education that combines artistic rigor with professional expertise, acquired through various projects in motion pictures, video games, commercials, and television
We will guide you in developing your creativity, artistic direction, and collaboration with other professionals. Our human, personalized approach makes EICMI a place where your talent can bloom and thrive.

Emmanuelle Gaume

Director and founder
of EICMI

Xavier Couture

President anf co-founder
of EICMI

Adrien Locciola

Program director and
Music theory professor

Delphine Mantoulet

Film music composition
professor

Emmanuel d'Orlando

Film music composition
professor

Théo Harfoush

Sound design and
computer-assisted music professor

Alexander Deuschle

Music Composition, Orchestration,
and Keyboard Harmony Professor

Jean-Yves Patte

Sound design and sound archives
history professor

Benoit Basirico

Film music analysis
professor

Inspiring Guest Speakers

Throughout the year, guest speakers—including renowned composers, conductors, music supervisors, sound designers, directors, and producers—will share their expertise with you.

Participate in masterclasses, workshops, and conferences that immerse you in real projects. Gain valuable insights into the music and audiovisual industries.



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Emmanuelle Gaume

Director and founder
of EICMI

Over thirty years of experience in audiovisual production and directiion. Author, director, producer, audiovisual journalist since 1993, and novelist. Her eclectic career reflects an ever-present curiosity. Her love of music, film, and literature, along with her fine arts training, have led her down diverse audiovisual paths, from France Musique (Radio France) to ARTE, including Exclusif on TF1 and Nulle part ailleurs on Canal+. She co-founded and directed the Intrada music label with composer Eric Tanguy for over 10 years. In February 2016, she directed her first documentary film, “Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker in History”, starring Alexandra Lamy as Alice Guy. She is currently co-producing a six-episode television series with France Télévisions and Wild Bunch, based on her book about Alice Guy (published by PLON).

Xavier Couture

President and co-founder
of EICMI

With many years spent at the heart of the French audiovisual industry, Xavier Couture has held some of the sector’s most strategic management positions. After starting his career in 1975 at the daily newspaper L’Équipe as an advertising manager, he went on to become a newspaper publisher, notably creating the sports daily Le Sport. He joined TF1 in 1988, where he became editor-in-chief to the sports director, then head of programming from 1993 to 2002, while also serving as Sports Director and Vice-President of Eurosport France from 1998 to 2002. His career then led him to head youth programming at La Cinq in 1990, before being appointed Chairman of the Board of the Canal+ Group in 2002.

After serving as CEO of various Endemol subsidiaries, he joined the Orange Group in 2008 as Director of Content and New Growth Activities, later becoming Director of Communications and Brand. Director General of France Télévisions from 2016 to 2018, he then joined the communications consulting firm Image7, where he works as a Senior Consultant. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Théâtre de la Ville Association in Paris.

He has published two novels, Coma and Et Pourtant j’étais Mort (And Yet I Was Dead), an essay on television, La Dictature de l’Émotion (The Dictatorship of Emotion), and the libretto for an oratorio composed by Eric Tanguy, Sénèque Dernier Jour (Seneca Last Day).

Adrien Locciola

Program Director
and Music Theory Professor

A passionate educator dedicated to teaching music theory, Adrien Locciola holds a postgraduate diploma in music theory from the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) and has been teaching for 18 years. A pianist, singer, and bassoonist, as well as a musician in both a wind orchestra and a symphony orchestra, he readily embraces multiple disciplines, constantly challenging himself to offer a comprehensive education. By placing the body and voice at the heart of musical learning through active methods, he succeeds in making music theory both fun and engaging.

A true embodiment of optimism and good humor, he encourages his students to highlight their strengths while fostering acceptance of their mistakes, transforming them into constructive and positive learning experiences. Passionate about video games, animated films, and cinema in general, he has always used their soundtracks as a teaching tool. Curious, athletic, and enthusiastic, Adrien Locciola is committed to both physical and mental well-being.

Delphine Mantoulet

Film Music Composition Professor

A classically trained pianist, Delphine Mantoulet developed an early affinity for rock and electronic music during an extended stay in London (1998-2001).  She made her debut as a film composer with Tony Gatlif’s Exils (Best Director Award – Cannes Film Festival 2004).

She went on to compose the scores for several of Gatlif’s films, including Transylvania (2006), Liberté (2010, César nomination), Geronimo (2014), and Tom Medina (Official Selection – Cannes Film Festival 2021). Her compositional voice ; at the intersection of rock, electronic, and world music, is notable for its strong organic relationship to the moving picture.

Named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2021, she recently wrote the original score for Elbow, winner of the Grand Prize at the Marseille Music and Cinema Festival 2024 (Berlinale 2024), and composed the music for Ange and Solea (Official Selection – Cannes 2025).

Listen to the Elbow soundtrack.

Emmanuel d'Orlando

Film Music Composition Professor

In 2024, Emmanuel D’Orlando co-composed the score for the animated film adaptation of Silex and the City by Jul and Jean-Paul Guigue with Antoine Berjeaut, presented in the Official Selection of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.  Nominated for a César Award in 2013 for the soundtrack of Populaire by Regis Roinsard (co-composed with Rob), Emmanuel also arranged, orchestrated, and composed additional music for Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser (Making Plans for Lena) by Christophe Honoré, collaborating with Alex Beaupain, whose original score had been nominated for a César Award in 2008.

Comfortable across a wide range of styles in which orchestral writing serves narrative and emotional expression, he has composed numerous original scores for both film and television.  Over the course of his career, he has worked with directors such as Gilles Marchand on L’Autre monde (Black Heaven, Official Selection – Cannes 2010), Florent Emilio Siri, Audrey Dana, Gorun Aprikian, and more recently Sonia Rolland, with whom he has developed a close artistic rapport and who entrusted him with the original score for her film An Unexpected Destiny for France Télévisions.

In 2018, he also composed the original score for Angela Soupe’s series HP for OCS, winner of the Best 26-Minute Series Award at the 2018 La Rochelle Festival and selected for the Colcoa French Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Emmanuel D’Orlando is also known for his arrangements of Sébastien Tellier’s celebrated “Ritournelle” and regularly works within the luxury, advertising, and fashion sectors.                   He wrote a ballet for Cartier in 2010 with choreographer Blanca Li, and in 2014 arranged and conducted Tellier’s music for the Chanel show at the Grand Palais, in addition to composing music for four Balmain fashion shows.

Passionate about sharing his craft, he taught film composition at the Paul Dukas Conservatory in Paris for seven years before joining EICMI.

Théo Harfoush

Sound Design and
Computer-Assisted Music Professor

Théo Harfoush is a musician, performance artist, and writer.

After working as a sound technician in radio and documentary filmmaking, he devoted himself to musical composition and interactive sound design, collaborating with independent video game studios and within the contemporary art world, including Mirari Games, GLKT, and Ignilife.  His work merges orchestral writing, traditional Asian musical influences, electronic transformations, and choral textures.

In 2019, he met director Otomo de Manuel (founder of Totem in Maxéville), leading him to compose and perform music for live performances across theater, cabaret, and circus arts (Cie Poppydog, Bouche-à-Bouche, Cabaret Le Secret, CIAM). He then expanded his practice to include performing and creating his own shows with his company Paon-Pie Paon-Pie, exploring the intersection of voice, gesture, and electronic music.

Alexander Deuschle

Music Composition, Orchestration,
and Keyboard Harmony Professor

Alexander Deuschle is a Dutch teacher and composer based in France. He studied composition, writing, music theory, orchestration, and analysis at the Reims Regional Conservatory, the Geneva University of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Mons. He holds a Master’s degree in Music Composition and a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from Paris-Sorbonne University.

He has benefited from the advice of composers such as Michael Jarrell, Luis Naon, Daniel D’Adamo, Jean-Pierre Deleuze, and Thomas Foguenne. His music has been performed in France, Switzerland, and Belgium. His catalog includes works for soloists, ensembles, chamber groups, electroacoustic works, educational works, as well as orchestrations and arrangements. His passion for film music and cinema led him to turn to composing music for the screen. Also passionate about teaching and passing on his knowledge, he has taught at various conservatories and music schools.

Jean-Yves Patte

Sound Design and Sound Archives History Professor

An art historian and opera singer, Jean-Yves Patte began his career as a music researcher before developing a deep passion for the history of recorded sound and early sound archives ; cylinders, discs, music boxes, and other historical sound media.  This expertise led him to work in radio (notably on France Musique, where he served as commentator and producer alongside Jean-François Zygel), as well as in film, collaborating with directors such as Roland Joffé, Bernie Bonvoisin, Christophe Malavoy, Ridley Scott, and Martin Bourboulon. He has also written and contributed to many television series and documentaries.

As artistic director for the record label Frémeaux et Associés and as a producer, he continues to work with Lobster Films, helping rediscover and restore historical sounds used in the soundscapes of early talking pictures. He regularly provides archival sounds and sound effects for film and television, particularly for productions related to World War I, and collaborates with Christophe Malavoy, Siesta TV (Spain), NHK (Japan), Richard Dujardin (Canada), and various museum and exhibition projects.

Jean-Yves Patte also gives numerous lectures on sound in pre-cinema and early cinema at institutions such as the Apollo Cinema in Châteauroux, the Reims Opera, the Bertrand Museum, the Imperial Theatre in Compiègne (in collaboration with Christophe Mirambeau), and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.  He has also collaborated with the Charlie Chaplin Office on historical sound research and interpretation.

Benoit Basirico

Film Music Analysis Professor

After studying film at the University of Poitiers from 1997 to 2002, Benoit Basirico began his career as a critic for Studio Magazine (2006-2007) before joining the Critics’ Week Short Film selection committee in 2008. Since then, he has established himself as a leading specialist in film scoring.

He is the founder of Cinezik.fr, a reference website dedicated to soundtrack culture, and produces numerous podcasts and radio programs.  His work includes contributions to France Musique, interviews with composers for the Cannes Radio Festival, and programs on Aligre FM.

Benoit Basirico teaches film music analysis at several institutions, including the Sorbonne School of Arts (Paris 1), the UFR Arts & Media at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3), and the University of Strasbourg (Cinema Department, since 2022).

He also leads specialized training sessions and workshops (University of Picardy, IESA, educational initiatives with the La Rochelle Film Festival) and frequently hosts talks, panels, and conferences on music in film. These events are often organized in collaboration with SACEM and take place at numerous festivals, such as Angers (Premiers Plans), Marseille (formerly Aubagne), Pantin (Côté Court), Lausanne (Rencontres 7e Art), Rochefort (Sœurs Jumelles), Strasbourg (Augenblick), as well as during the TRIO residency initiated by the Maison du film.

He is the author of Film Music: Composers and Directors at Work (Hémisphères, 2018), and contributed an essay on Jerry Goldsmith’s music to the collective volume Alien: Xenography, edited by Nicolas Martin and Simon Riaux (ActuSF).