Nicolas Rabaeus
Composer, Location Sound Mixer, Sound Designer
- Website
- www.nicolasrabaeus.com
Copyright: Rebecca Bowring
Born in 1984 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied jazz music at IMEP in Paris and classical music at the HEM Haute École de musique in Geneva. He's been working as a composer for more than fifteen years, specializing in music for the moving image. He has collaborated with many European and Swiss filmmakers, for more than fifty projects, ranging from short movies to feature films, animation to documentaries, and three full series. He's recently been appointed to teach "Music in Cinema" at the HEM. His work has won awards at numerous festivals, including the Quartz for Best Music in 2023 for Carmen Jaquier's FOUDRE (Thunder).
Filmography
(a selection)
Composer
- 2026
- Gabin by Maxence Voiseux
- 2025
- À bras-le-corps by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
- 2024
- Peau à peau by Chloé Cinq-Mars
- 2024
- Bisons by Pierre Monnard
- 2024
- Cosmos by Germinal Roaux
- 2023
- Rivière by Hugues Hariche
- 2023
- Les indociles by Delphine Lehericey
- 2023
- Hawar, our Banished Children by Pascale Bourgaux
- 2023
- Jeunesses! by Céline Pernet, Daniel Wyss
- 2022
- Yaban by Tareq Daoud
- 2022
- Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey
- 2022
- Dragon Women by Frédérique de Montblanc
- 2022
- Foudre by Carmen Jaquier
- 2022
- The Land Within by Fisnik Maxville
- 2021
- Nostromo by Fisnik Maxville
- 2021
- Sacha by Léa Fazer
- 2021
- La chance de ta vie by Chris Niemeyer
- 2020
- Citoyen Nobel by Stéphane Goël
- 2020
- Maisonneuve by Nicolas Wadimoff, Emmanuelle Walter
- 2020
- The Set-Up by Malika Pellicioli
- 2020
- Fin de partie by Fisnik Maxville
- 2019
- Sing Me A Song by Thomas Balmès
- 2019
- Le milieu de l'horizon by Delphine Lehericey
- 2019
- Tambour battant by François-Christophe Marzal
- 2018
- Vous ne connaîtrez ni le jour ni l'heure by Samuel Grandchamp
- 2018
- L'île sans rivages by Caroline Cuénod
- 2018
- Les dames by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
- 2018
- Le Monde d'Ailleurs by Gregory Casares
- 2018
- Au large by Natalia Ducrey
- 2018
- À l'école des philosophes by Fernand Melgar
- 2017
- Mamie by Benoît Monney
- 2017
- Un mois de grève au pays de la paix du travail by Véronique Rotelli
- 2017
- Foulek by Patrick Muroni
- 2016
- Opération commando by Jan Czarlewski
- 2016
- Miséricorde by Fulvio Bernasconi
- 2016
- Mon Ange by Gregory Casares
- 2015
- Station Horizon by Romain Graf, Pierre-Adrian Irlé
- 2015
- Retour sur une illusion by Elena Hazanov, Claudio Recupero
- 2015
- Le syndrome de Petruchka by Elena Hazanov
- 2015
- Belle comme un coeur by Gregory Casares
- 2015
- Que la nuit soit douce by Frédéric Recrosio
- 2014
- Volta à terra by João Pedro Plácido
- 2014
- Sam by Elena Hazanov
- 2014
- L'heure du secret – Saison 2 by Elena Hazanov
- 2013
- The Bakery by Salar Shahna
- 2013
- Le doigt d'honneur by Malika Pellicioli
- 2012
- Laci bácsi by Elena Hazanov, Claudio Recupero
- 2012
- Pixeliose by Romain Graf
- 2010
- All That Remains by Valentin Rotelli, Pierre-Adrian Irlé
Location Sound Mixer
- 2018
- Keep it Light by Malika Pellicioli
Sound Designer
- 2021
- La chance de ta vie by Chris Niemeyer
Awards
(a selection)
- 2024
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2024, Best Film Score (Nomination) in Rivière
- 2024
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2024, Best Film Score (Winner) in Bisons
- 2024
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2024, Best Film Score (Winner) in The Land Within
- Montréal, Festival de films CINEMANIA , Meilleure musique (Winner) in Foudre
- 2023
- Genève, Swiss Film Award 2023, Best Film Score (Winner) in Foudre
- 2020
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2020, Swiss Film Award, Best Film Score (Nomination) in Le milieu de l'horizon
- Annonay, Festival International du Premier Film Annonay, Prix de la meilleure musique du film (Winner) in All That Remains