Sandrine Rudaz | |
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Sandrine Rudaz is a Swiss-French film music composer based in California, USA. She was born in Switzerland, where she started her classical music education at the age of three. [1] [2] [3]
Rudaz has won the Hollywood Music in Media Award twice (2019 and 2022) [4] and was nominated for a Jerry Goldsmith Award in 2019. [5] In the same year she was named personality of the month by the Swiss newspaper Le Nouvelliste. [6] In 2020, she was one of Le Temps' 100 personalities of the year. [7]
Life and career
Rudaz holds a Master of Music in Film Composition from the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Lausanne Conservatory, Switzerland. She furthered her studies in orchestration at Stanford University.
Rudaz has composed music for over forty films. Her best-known films include the feature film " Fate of the Night" and the documentary " PARADiCE" (Hollywood Music in Media Award 2022). She has also composed for short films such as " Kneeling Sheep" and " A for Alpha" ( HBO), which won Best Original Score at the Garden State Film Festival.
She has attended prestigious workshops with composers such as John Swihart (" How I Met Your Mother") and participated in the LA Film Conducting Intensive with orchestrators William Ross (" Star Wars", " Titanic") and Conrad Pope (" The Hobbit", " Jurassic Park").
As a pianist, Rudaz released her debut album "Papillon" in 2019.
Rudaz is also an ambassador for the Primetime Network and a member of organizations such as the Alliance for Women Film Composers, Society of Composers and Lyricists and Women In Film. [8]
Filmography (Selection)
- The Shell (2020)
- Aylesbury Estate (2020)
- Fate of the Night (2022)
- PARADiCE: la procession des glaciers (2023)
References
- ^ Stories, Local. "Meet Sandrine Rudaz – Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide". Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ Patrick. "Sandrine Rudaz". La musique de film (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "Elle cartonne à Hollywood, il est doctorant à l'Université de Stanford: l'Amérique sourit à un couple de Valaisans". www.lenouvelliste.ch (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- ^ "Sandrine Rudaz | About". sandrinerudaz. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "Jerry Goldsmith Awards – FMF". filmmusicfestival.org. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "Compositrice de musique de film, Sandrine Rudaz est la ValaiStar de novembre". www.lenouvelliste.ch (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Sandrine Rudaz, du Valais au début de la gloire à Hollywood". Le Temps (in French). 2020-02-20. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Sandrine Rudaz | About". sandrinerudaz. Retrieved 2024-03-20.