Nicolas Cornil started music at a very early age. He first had classical piano tuition at the National Conservatory of music of the Hauts-de-Seine Région.

He has always had a passion for film music and has loved creating music ever since he could play the piano. This explains why he chose to study film music composition at the International Music Academy in Nancy and why he decided to specialize in this particular field.

He was then admitted to Lyon’s University Masters degree in Music Applied to Visual Arts and thus continued his studies during a further two years, during which he was able to develop his skills, abilities and knowledge in this area.

He has composed quite several very different kinds of music these past few years, including various television reports for ARTE and USHUAÏA TV. He also composed the sound track of several video games, one of which was created by Jean-Claude Van Damme, and for an animated short film ordered by FOX DIGITAL STUDIO, a FOX CENTURY subsidiary.

For his film music, he won the « Best original music » prize for a film called « Monsieur Personne » in 2015 awarded by the ESRA jury. He was also awarded the « Best score 2019 » at the Deep Focus Film Festival (USA).

He also wrote the music of the film « Mohamed le Prénom », which was shown at the « Short Corner » of the 2016 Cannes Festival, and of a number of animated films that have been shown recently in many international film festivals such as the Annecy Festival and the « Interfilm » Berlin festival. These films have won many prizes, in particular the «Canal + Family Favourite » at the 2019 international festival of Clermont-Ferrand and the « Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 animated Short Nashville film festival in the USA, which enables the film to run for an Oscar.

Multi-skilled, he can adapt his work and his music to film makers’ needs and to various kinds of projects whatever the style may be.

In addition, Nicolas gives solo piano concerts and is preparing an album in which he will express his artistic world. He also composes music for singers and teaches in a music school.

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