About

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From short to feature, from series to documentary

Clémentine Charuel works on a large panel of media projects.

The feature movie Cherry (directed by Sophie Galibert, awarded at Tribeca in 2022), the short movie Icarus (directed by Christos Kardana, 2025), or the documentary Des Femmes, Une Voix (directed by Stan Zambeaux, 2025) were all very different and made her travel through diametrically opposed styles. They enriched her cinema and music knowledges.

A vocation

Film music seemed obvious when Clémentine put in common the things that mattered the most: as a cinema lover and a music artist she always associated pictures, stories or even dreams to music she was hearing, playing or writing. Today she really enjoy translating cinematic expression into music expression, interpreting the directors' emotions in her own language and put this music at the service of the movie. While her first steps in music composition were very focused on orchestral music, now she likes mixing it with electronic instruments and with vocal textures. Her trips in different musical spheres (classical, rock, modern music) made her wish to always improve herself and experiment new ways of thinking and writing music.

Photo : Sal Ochoa
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Photo : Leïla Macaire
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Training

Clémentine's musical training started when she was 7 as she was interested in playing the piano. While taking courses at the conservatory she wanted to discover music from every angle: she gained new writing styles by playing in rock bands and in chamber choirs, as well as the wish of developing unusual textures. Since she graduated from the Master of Musicology at Paris-Sorbonne (2017) and from the Master of Scoring for Films, Television and Video Games at Berklee College of Music (2018), she has been writing music for many media projects and never gets tired of exploring her creativity through different styles and genres of cinema and music.

Clémentine was selected by many workshops organised by cinema and music organisations in France and in the all world.

In 2024, the Colonne Orchestra commissioned her to write the piece " Ouverture sur un fragment d'histoire " at Salle Gaveau in Paris; the same year she enters the music branch of the Académie des César.