JURY - COMPOSERS

We are proud to introduce the esteemed jury panel in charge of selecting the two film score composers who will participate in the upcoming second edition of CASA CINE. The residency will be held at the Château de La Napoule from May 10th to May 29th, 2024.

The jury comprises professionals from diverse backgrounds: film music composers from the classical repertoire to jazz, contemporary and experimental music. The CASA CINE 2024 Jury embodies a rich tapestry of perspectives and creative realms, fostering openness to all kinds of musical universes and sensibilities.

It is an international and intergenerational jury, echoing the diversity of our candidates!

A big THANK YOU for your involvement in the CASA CINE 2024 Jury!

Ally Fiola

Ally Fiola is a Nova Scotian saxophonist, film composer, and bandleader of the groove-based jazz ensemble, The Next Quest. As a film composer, collaboration and storytelling provide a creative framework that she values immensely and thrives upon: she has a wide experience in different musical styles, excels at creating memorable melodies, and understands how to intertwine harmony with the emotion of the scene.

Ally's recently released original jazz album, Interblaze, features 3x-Grammy winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones), Grammy winning keyboardist Glenn Patscha (Bonnie Raitt), Kurdish guitarist Shvan Kaban, and many top-tier Nova Scotian musicians. Thoughts of Home, an original composition from her latest album, was nominated for the 2022 Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards in the jazz category.

Giuseppe Gavazza

Giuseppe Gavazza is an Italian composer. He studied at the University of Turin and received a diploma in composition, orchestra conducting, piano, musicology and electronic music, graduating from the Conservatory and EMIT in Milan.

He has collaborated for years with European research centers like LIM Milan-University, CSC-Padua University, Experimental Studio SWF-Freiburg, and Ircam-Paris.

Since 1999 he has been resident composer at the ACROE-ICA Polytechnique Grenoble where he completed a PhD in 2018. He currently teaches composition at the Cuneo Music Conservatory and is a permanent researcher at AAU Cresson, ENSAG, Grenoble.

For several years, he has been working in the organizing and promotion of contemporary music, arts and new technologies, and collaborated with Luciano Berio, Sergio Liberovici and Giulio Castagnoli in the field of musical theater for children.

His compositions, which have successfully participated in international competitions, are published, recorded and broadcasted internationally.

Over the years, Giuseppe Gavazza has developed collaborations with film and theater directors, visual artists, writers and photographers, realizing more than 150 collaborative projects.

Filipe Raposo

Filipe Raposo is a Portuguese pianist, composer and orchestrator.
He began his piano studies at the Lisbon National Conservatory. He has a master's degree in Piano Jazz Performance from the Royal College of Music (Stockholm) and was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm. He has a degree in Composition from the Lisbon School of Music.

As a composer, orchestrator and pianist, he has collaborated with numerous European orchestras, performing solo or with different formations at international festivals.
Since 2004 he has collaborated with the Cinemateca Portuguesa as resident pianist accompanying silent films. Thereafter, he composed and recorded the soundtrack for various Portuguese silent films, including Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica by Leitão de Barros, which won an Honorable Mention at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna.

He regularly collaborates as a composer for film and theater.
Author of the original music for the documentary Um corpo que dança - Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005, by Marco Martins.
In 2022, alongside António Jorge Gonçalves, he co-directed the documentary O Nascimento da Arte. In the same year, he wrote the opera As Cortes de Júpiter by Gil Vicente, directed by Ricardo Neves Neves.

In his own name, he has released the albums: First Falls (2011) - Amália Foundation revelation artist award; A Hundred Silent Ways (2013); Inquiétude (2015); Rita Maria & Filipe Raposo Live in Oslo (2018); ØCRE vol.1 (2019); The Art of Song: When Baroque Meets Jazz (2020); ØBSIDIANA vol.2 (2022) and The Art of Song: Between Sacred and Profane (2023).

Jean-François Trubert

Jean-François Trubert is a researcher and professor of musicology at Côte d’Azur University, in Nice.
His work focuses on the creative process of music, especially in contemporary opera and new musical theater, but also in multimedia and digital environments, with a specialization on gesture analysis on contemporary music. His research includes the works of Kurt Weill, Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, and Georges Aperghis.

Former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities CREATES, he is a member of the Transdisciplinary Center in Epistemology of Literature and Performing Arts (CTEL), and founded the interdisciplinary Center for Research and Creativity in Extended Reality at Côte d’Azur University.

He is co-director of the collection Arts, Cultures, Pouvoirs at Presses Universitaires de Savoie-Mont Blanc and is involved in research projects funded by the National Research Agency and European Council’s Creative Europe.

He has published in the Brecht-Yearbook, the journals Filigrane, Dissonance and in the Contemporary Music Review, as well as in collective works.