Guests composers

Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais was particularly influenced by Film François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to write the soundtrack to his new film México mágico. The first full-length production he composed the score for was the 1986 film La femme secrète by Sébastien Grall. Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le petit prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993.

In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux.

At the age of 24, Bear McCreary was launched into pop culture with his score to Sci Fi Channel's hit, Battlestar Galactica, "the most innovative music on TV today" (Variety).   Four seasons and seventy-five episodes later, Galactica is universally revered, having won the prestigious Peabody Award and special recognition from the United Nations.   McCreary has established himself as a major creative force in the industry.   Io9.com declared Bear McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of all time, listing him alongside legends John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann.   He was the only composer under 50 on the list, (he is now 30), and the only one recognized for work in television.

His Galactica score has been described as "sharp and sensitive" (The Wall Street Journal) , "a key element in establishing the show's dark, complex tone," (The Hollywood Reporter) and "rich, raw, oddly stirring... kick-ass and powerful as hell," (E! Online).   It "fits the action so perfectly, it's almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other," (NPR) .   Seasons One, Two, Three and Four of his best-selling Battlestar soundtrack albums have rocketed up the Amazon.com Top Music Sales Charts, reaching the #1 sales spot in both television and movie soundtrack lists, many weeks prior to their releases. The most recent album, Season 4, cracked into Amazon.com's Top 5 Music Sales and charted in the Billboard Top 150.

Carles Cases was born in Sallent (Barcelona) in 1958.

He studied piano and cello at the Barcelona School of Music, harmony and piano-jazz at the Contemporary Music Academy of Hastad (Norway), and orchestration and composition at Instituto Superior de Arte of La Havana (Cuba) with the master Alfredo Gómez.

Between 1975 and 1977 he was part of Luis Rovira’s Big Band.

In 1982 he created the Carles Cases Quartet, performing throughout the whole country. In 1985 he formed Blaumarí, a group of jazz fusion, performing its own repertoire at different jazz festivals.

Carles Cases joined the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation in 1988.

In 1989 he started his career as a composer for films and the audiovisual, and since then he has composed the score for more than fifty films ("What's It All About", “Actresses”, “Arde Amor”, "The Nameless", “Eloïse”).

Spanish-Argentinian composer, educated in Buenos Aires, Paris and Boston, he is the author of many film scores such as:

• “The Blind Sunflowers”
• “The Education of Fairies” (José Luis Cuerda)
• “Mataharis” (Icíar Bollaín)
• "The Longest Penalty Shot in the World" (Roberto Santiago)
• “Mondays in the Sun” (Fernando León de Aranoa)
• “Bear Cub” (Miguel Albaladejo)
• “Intact” (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
• “Don´t Move” (Sergio Castellitto)
• “The Aura” (Fabián Bielinsky)
• "The Naked Years: Classified 'S'" (Dunia Ayaso y Felix Sabroso)
• "Triage" (Danis Tanovic).