The end of a fantastic collaboration with directors Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, for the music of their documentary “Les Dames”. Mixing ahead!

Great reception for Caroline Cuenod’s “L’île sans rivage” at the “Journées de Soleure”. Music by Nicolas Rabaeus. A small teaser :

Great string session for Quiet Island, with a new composition process…

Honored to have participated to this wonderful film by Fernand Melgar. “A l’école des Philosophes” opened the “Journées de Soleure”, sparking a big emotion in the public.

Woodwind quintet music for “À l’école des Philosophes”, a documentary by Fernand Melgar. A warm thank you to the ∑igma Ensemble and to Renaud Millet-Lacombe and the RTS for this unforgettable recording session! See you in Solothurn for the the première!

We are delighted to annonce that Nicolas will be giving a presentation with Jérôme Vittoz on the subject : Boldness! and Sound on Tuesday 19th of September. The presentation will take place at Fonction : Cinéma, at the Maison des arts du Grütli, at 7PM.

Nicolas started working on Fernand Melgar‘s latest film. More on that subject soon…

Nicolas Rabaeus just won the “Best music award” at the First Run Film Festival, for his score for the movie “You’ll know neither the day nor the hour”, directed by Samuel Grandchamp. Amazing!

Leaving tomorrow morning for Catawba College,  North Carolina, to attend a dance show choreographed to the music from Alice in Wonderland (composed by Nicolas Rabaeus)! Really excited!

Congratulations to Jan Czarlewski! Operation Commando (music by Nicolas Rabaeus), has just been nominated for “Best short film” at the Swiss Film Awards. Fingers crossed!

Opération CommandoGuitars and Percussions

So happy to be part of this amazing crew! The screening of Misericorde was a success!

Nicolas is working on a new movie by Benoît Monney, “Mamie”, produced by Bad Taste Pictures. It’s great!

Long and intense working hours for the composition of the new movie directed by Samuel Grandchamp, Vous ne connaîtrez ni le jour ni l’heure . The film is beautiful!

Very proud to have organised with Bertrand Bacqué (with the help of Pablo Briones and Rodolphe Schacher) a “Music and cinema” workshop, with eighteen students from the HEAD and the HEM. Congratulations to them for their participation and involvement: the results by the end of this intense week were just amazing!

Misericorde, a feature film directed by the great Fulvio Bernasconi with a score by Nicolas Rabaeus, will premiere at the Zürich Film Festival on Saturday the 24th of September. Don’t miss it!
Link to the festival website : https://zff.com/fr/archives/15981/

The soundtrack for “Belle comme un coeur” has been nominated for the “Peer Raben Music Award” at the SoundTrack_Cologne 13 festival. Nicolas will be there to present his work. Yay!

Back to our favourite festival! Lots of fantastic movies under a heavy rain!

Nicolas is currently working on a wonderful documentary directed by Véronique Rotelli : Un mois de grève. A glimpse into the less-known history of our country!

Nicolas just won the Andrei Petrov prize at the “Literature and Cinema festival” of Gatchina for his score of the movie “Puppet Syndrom”. Hurray!

Nicolas just finished two days of intense but fertile working with Rodrigo Peñalosa, signing the (crazy) score of his (crazy) movie celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Dada movement.

We went to visit the famous Ajay Sharma in New Delhi, at the Rikhi Ram shop. After hours of trying every possible instruments, we decided to buy a splendid tampura! Thanks to this great master for his warm reception and advices!

Nicolas just finished writing the music of the latest movie by Jan Czarlewski, “Opération Commando” (french title). Congratulation to Jan and the whole crew : the movie is great!

Great day of recording at Kitchen Studio for the new animation movie of Gregory Casares : “Mon ange“. Thank you Laurent Vonlanthen (sound engineer), Eurydice Vernay (violin) and Julien Paillard (accordion)!

Back from Skopje, where we recorded a string orchestra for “Misericorde” (working title), the new feature film of Fulvio Bernasconi. Everything’s in the hard-drives, let’s head for the mixing!

“Puppet Syndrome”, the feature film directed by Elena Hazanov with music by Nicolas Rabaeus, just won the best film award at the “Silk Road International Film Festival”. Congratulations!

Nicolas Rabaeus gave a lecture at the HEAD in of Geneva, with the title “Music and Cinema”. A great day!

“Ugly Pretty Heart”, the great animation movie directed by Gregory Casares with music by Nicolas Rabaeus, will be screened at the Fantoche festival, from the 2nd to 5th of September. Schedule here!

Nicolas Rabaeus will be in Locarno from Friday 7th to Tuesday 11th!

At last the original soundtrack of the series Station Horizon, directed by P.-A. Irlé and Romain Graf, is available on iTunes! Click here to get you copy!

Nicolas Rabaeus has just been awarded the “Tariverdiev Prize for the Best Music” at the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi! Below is a picture of Elena Hazanov, the director, with the statue! So glad!

“Puppet Syndrome”, directed by Elena Hazanov with music by Nicolas Rabaeus, has premiered at the Kinotavr festival in Sochi and was a big success. The first article talks of an “incredible music”. Great start!

“Retour sur une illusion”, the new documentary directed by Claudio Recupero and Elena Hazanov will be screened at the the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon. Nicolas Rabaeus wrote the score for the movie. More infos here.

After a recording in St-Petersburg with the St-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, we are mixing the music of “Puppet Syndrome” at Kitchen Studio with Laurent Vonlanthen. Sounds GREAT!

Enjoy the making of the recording of “Belle comme un coeur”, the animation movie directed Gregory Casares! Thanks to tolmao.ch for the film!

Nicolas Rabaeus is currently working on a feature film from Russia : “Puppet Syndrome”, directed by Elena Hazanov. We’ll go to St-Petersburg to record a string orchestra in March! Can’t wait!

We’re proud to present the trailer of the new series Nicolas Rabaeus has been scoring for the past three months : Station Horizon. This jewel, directed by Pierre-Adrian Irlé and Romain Graf, will be on RTS channel every Saturday, starting the 28th of February. Rock on!

After the trailer, discover a sample of the original soundtrack in itself! (click the link below)

http://www.nicolasrabaeus.com/belle-comme-un-coeur-os/

Discover the trailer of “Belle comme un coeur”, an amazing animation movie directed by Gregory Casares, with music by Nicolas Rabaeus (score for a full orchestra):

Yesterday we recorded the music for “Belle comme un coeur”, an animation short directed by Gregory Casares. We were directly connected with Skopje, Macedonia, where a 83 piece orchestra played Nicolas Rabaeus’ score (in the background on the laptop!). Can’t wait to mix all this!

“Volta à Terra”, a beautiful documentary directed by João Pedro Plácido with music by Nicolas Rabaeus, has won the best portuguese movie award at the Doclisboa festival! Congratulations!

Nicolas Rabaeus starts another collaboration with directors Pierre-Adrian Irlé and Romain Graf, for the season 1 of “Station Horizon”, the new series produced by Jump Cut Productions and the RTS. Looking forward!

Nicolas Rabaeus is working on a great score for a short animation movie, directed and drawn by Gregory Casares, produced by Nadasdy Film. The music required an massive 80 piece orchestra that we’ll record in November! We’ll keep you posted about this great project!

Nicolas Rabaeus just started working on a great documentary by Elena Hazanov and Claudio Recupero : Retour sur une illusion. It’s a deep a poignant portrait of a man who survived the Red Khmer hell.

Nicolas Rabaeus has started a collaboration with director/actor Frederic Recrosio, scoring the music for his new short : “Que la nuit soit douce”. It’s a very touching story about two children and their love for their grandfather.

Congratulations to Ania Szczpanska for her brilliant documentary, “We Film the People!” (music by Rabaeus). The film just won the First Prize at the “Festival de film de chercheur”.

“Sam” (music by Nicolas Rabaeus) just won the “Best International Feature Film” and “Best Supporting Actor” awards at the New York City International Film Festival. Congratulations Elena, Sacha, Frederic and Georges for this wonderful movie!

Congratulations Malika! Another award for “The Finger” (music by Rabaeus) : “The Audience Award” at the Brussels Short Film Festival! Great movie!

Nicolas Rabaeus checking the mix for “Volta à Terra” : it sounds great! Thank you Kitchen Studio!

Enjoy the teaser of Brouillon de Culture, the new webserie Nicolas Rabaeus scored!

Julien Paillard recording the accordion for “Volta à Terra”. What an incredible artist! 

Congratulations Malika Pellicioli! “The Finger”, featuring Nicolas Rabaeus’ music, just won the best comedy award at the Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival!

http://www.landshuter-kurzfilmfestival.de/

Nicolas Rabaeus is composing for a Portuguese documentary, “Volta à Terra”. This amazing film tells the story of a village in the northern part of Portugal. The film was directed by João Pedro Placido, in collaboration with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa.

Nicolas Rabaeus started working on the new RTS webseries, “Brouillon de Culture”, directed by Malika Pellicioli and Arthur Touchais and produced by Close Up Films. It looks amazing!

Congratulations to Elena Hazanov! Sam will premier at the Santa Barbara International Festival!

Discover the trailer of “L’Heure du secret”, season 2, a series directed by Elena Hazanov with music by Nicolas Rabaeus. The series will start on January the 11th at 20:10 PM, on RTS UN.

Watch the trailer of “Sam”, the latest feature by Elena Hazanov. Music by Nicolas Rabaeus.

Caroline Cuenod has just sent us the trailer of her exquisite film: “Des yeux partout”. Music by Nicolas Rabaeus & Gregorio Zanon.

Check out the trailer of this great movie directed by Ania Szczepanska and produced by “Les films de l’air” Music by Nicolas Rabaeus

Nicolas will be scoring the new season of the successful series “L’heure du secret”, directed by Elena Hazanov and produced by Cab Productions. Starting the 1st of September!

Nicolas will be at the Locarno film festival until the 10th of August!!

Nicolas with director Malika Peliciolli and sound editor Benjamin Benoit. The screening was a big success!

What a great movie! Nicolas is currently scoring a new short film directed by Malika Pellicioli : “Le doigt d’honneur”. At last a good comedy on our soil!

Nicolas has just finished scoring and recording the music for the movie “Sam” directed by Elena Hazanov. It’s the second feature film by the Swiss composer. Check it out at summer festivals!

Nicolas starts composing for the new movie directed by Patrick Graber, “La Baigneuse”.

Trained just won the “Best Foreign Short FIlm” award at the Los Angeles Indie film Festival. Congratulations to Anthony and Damien for their fabulous work!

Nicolas just started working on the latest feature film by Elena Hazanov, “Sam”. It’s a beautiful story with wonderful actors!

Jaeger-Lecoultre commissioned the music for one of it’s latest video to Nicolas. It’s on the website’s homepage! Here is how it sounds (and looks!) :

Nicolas has just finished the music for the the latest movie of Alban Delachenal : Rose Bud. Let’s hope the movie does well in the festivals!

The original soundtrack of “All that Remains” has been released on i-Tunes and Spotify. Thanks to Pierre-Adrian Irlé and Valentin Rotelli for this wonderful experience! Click here to buy yourself a copy!

The mixing of “We Are Filming the People!“, directed by Ania Szczepanska, is finally over. It sounds great! We can’t wait to see the completed movie on the big screen!

Nicolas Rabaeus was talking this Thursday on the “Babylone” show of the Espace2 radio about the film scoring process. Don’t miss this 10 minutes interview : click here!

The “Yes We Cam” group just won the Renens competition of the 48H Film Project. Nicolas Rabaeus did the music and even acted in this great adventure! What a week-end!

Pixeliose (music by Nicolas Rabaeus) will be screened for its world premiere at the “Festival tous écrans” of Geneva, Saturday 3rd of November at 3.30 PM. Nicolas Rabaeus will be in at the screening. We’re waiting for you!

Thank you, Monniati team! We had a great time, and it was a pleasure seeing Tsar Shate 2 on a stage again!

Nicolas Rabaeus will perform as Tsar Shate 2 on the Swiss Radio RSR1, in the show “Paradiso”, monday 27th of August at 7 PM. Thank you Laurie and the Monniati festival for the invitation!

We saw amazing films, amazing people in an amazing place. Back to writing music now!

Nicolas Rabaeus will be in Locarno festival from the 3rd to the 6th of August, with directors Pierre-Adrian Irlé, Valentin Rotelli and Salar Shahna.

Listen to this excerpt of the recording we’ve made with the F.A.M.E.’S. Film Music Recording Company with Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra. It’s the credit music from Anthony Jerjen’s new movie : “Trained”, composed by Nicolas Rabaeus.

Tonight Nicolas Rabaeus and Gregorio Zanon will be attending the private screening of “Des yeux partout”, a movie for which they’ve composed the OST.

Today Nicolas starts composing for a new movie : “Nous filmons le peuple!”, a documentary directed by Ania Szczepanska and produced by Nora Philippe for Abacaris Films.

Off to mix the track for the “Human Race” project, directed by Salar Shahna. Location : freestudios!

Today Nicolas Rabaeus and Gregorio Zanon are heading to Masé Studio for the mixing of “Des yeux partout”. Can’t wait to hear that strange and beautiful music on the picture!

Nicolas has just started a new project in association with Gregorio Zanon : “Des yeux partout”, directed by Caroline Cuénod, for her master at the HEAD school.

Now that the recording’s over, we’re heading to Brussels to mix the sessions!

Part of the short films collection “La faute à Rousseau“, Nicolas will be composing a re-mix of “Bastien und Bastienne” (Mozart) for the movie “Human Race”, directed by Salar Shahna.

Tomorrow Nicolas will be recording the OST of the movie “Trained” with the F.A.M.E’S. – Macedonian Symphonic Radio Orchestra. Getting excited here!

Nicolas Rabaeus is back from the spotting session of the movie he’s working on : “Trained”, directed by Anthony Jerjen. Great potential and many ideas popping out!

Nicolas Rabaeus wins the Best Music Prize at the Festival International du Premier Film d’Annonay. Thank you for your support!