CLAUDIE BERTOUNESQUE_ is an award-nominee composer based in Montreal, Canada. She composed music for films, video games and various classical ensembles.
Her work includes
Lady Sapiens (
Little Big Story,
Ideacom International,
Ubisoft) by director
Thomas Cirotteau,
Disney Dreamlight Valley : A Rift in Time (Gameloft, Disney) by Gameloft Montreal,
Après nous (Films de l'Oeil) by Élise Ekker-Lambert,
Bonne nuit quand même (OHdio, Radio-Canada) by Maude Landry & Aimé Majeau Beauchamp and
François Barbeau : Créateur de Costumes (Les Productions Flow) by
Jean Beaudry, for which she was nominated for the "Best Original Score : Documentary" at the 34th
Gémeaux Awards. She's also an original music collaborator on the
RodeoFX company audio team since 2023.
LE CHOEUR DES BÉLUGAS (commissioned by the
Orchestre de l'Agora) and
INTERLUDES (commissioned by
Les Violons du Roy), both written by the composer, premiered respectively at the Maison symphonique and the Palais Montcalm under the baton of
Nicolas Ellis in June 2024.
Claudie Bertounesque is credited as an orchestrator on numerous scores including
For Honor game expansions
Marching Fire,
Vortiger and
Sakura by
Ubisoft Montreal (music by
Luc St-Pierre),
Film, the Living Record of our Memory by Inés Toharia Terán and
Antisemitism by Ilan Ziv (music by
Robert M. Lepage).
CLAUDIE_ completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Film Music Composition at
Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). She is a former pupil of Canadian composers
Robert Marcel Lepage,
Benoit Groulx,
Maxime Goulet and
Thierry Gauthier.
Known as an innovative and passionate composer,
SHE_ stands out for her creativity, versatility, her dynamism, as well as her wide open-mindedness to different styles of music : "... her curiosity and sensitivity are essential components of an ability to seek and integrate new ideas in a creative process." (
Mariko Sato, pianist and associate faculty member at the
Golandsky Institute, NY).
SHE_ is the granddaughter of the French painter André Bertounesque. Claudie has two lovely cats named Marie and Piccolo (yes, she is a cat lady)
