Harry Allouche
Harry Allouche is a French composer, pianist and music producer whose work blends classical tradition with contemporary cinematic imagination. In 2022, he composed the original music for The Settlers, directed by Felipe Gálvez. Premiering in Un Certain Regard at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize, was Chile’s entry to the 2024 Academy Awards, and earned him the Pedro Sienna Award for Best Original Music. In 2024, he wrote the score for César Acevedo’s Horizonte, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Recent projects include ASouth Facing Window by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (78th Locarno Film Festival). He also arranged the piece Wake by JB Dunckel (AIR), commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and Gautier Capuçon, for the upcoming Warner Classics album Gaïa. Earlier credits include the Arte documentary Cinema Through The Eye Of Magnum (Telluride Film Festival, 2017), co-produced by Magnum Photos, and the feature film In Your Hands (2018), starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Since 2017, he has been performing as a silent film pianist at venues such as the Cinémathèque Française and the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation in Paris. Beyond film, he has arranged for the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and for artists such as April March. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris - where he served as an associate professor of harmony in the Music, Sound & Image Department - Harry continues to expand his musical language in collaboration with filmmakers.