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About Osmium

Antonin Mège and Nelson Santoni met in 2018 at the Philharmonie de Paris, where they were both working. Their musical collaboration began in 2021, thanks to the Music & Cinema festival in Aubagne.

Since then, having composed as a duo for most of their projects, they decided in 2023 to expand their activities and pool their resources. The creation of Osmium Music is thus the result of long reflection, fueled by the need to structure themselves to progress in their composing activities, but also following their experiences as arrangers, music editors, orchestrators, performers, orchestra librarians, sound engineers, artistic advisors, etc.

As they both realized that music creators and orchestras often faced technical and logistical challenges they wanted to create a structure that could help them overcome them. In fact, as tools become increasingly powerful and professional boundaries blur, it becomes vital to develop cross-functional skills to continue practicing these professions.

Osmium Music therefore allows them to gather a team of passionate individuals with versatile and complementary profiles around its two founders. This team is structured around custom-made, innovative, and technologically advanced methods and tools. A solid technical and methodological foundation enables adaptation to each client, and if necessary, optimization of their working methods according to their needs and constraints.

Antonin Mège

Composer, orchestrator, and guitarist, Antonin Mège studied composition with Yves Chauris, and orchestration with Guillaume Connesson and Alain Besson.
As a composer, he specializes in writing for concert and narration. His compositions have led him to work with many performers, such as harpsichordist Jorge Silva, founder of the ensemble Les Rencontres, and conductor Rosa Elena Monroy Castillero, co-founder of the operetta company Au temps pour elles.

His compositions and arrangements can be heard on television and radio (France 2, Arte, M6, Europe 1, France Musique...), in cinema, or in concert. He collaborates with composers such as Julie Roué, Renaud Barbier, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Armand Amar, or Gréco Casadesus.

Antonin Mège works very regularly with the Orchestre Divertimento, of which he is the artistic coordinator. Beyond the arrangements commissioned by the symphonic ensemble from Osmium Music, he is an artistic advisor to the conductor Zahia Ziouani, and coordinates with her numerous projects in venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Seine Musicale, the théâtre du Rond-Point and many other national stages.

Nelson Santoni

A graduate of the ENS Louis-Lumière (Master's in Sound, class of 2018), Nelson Santoni initially worked with other composers for film, television, and radio. He has notably collaborated with Julie Roué (Le monde n’existe pas, Perdrix), Peter Von Poehl (Van Cleef & Arpels), Delphine Malausséna (Chien de la casse, En plein feu), David François Moreau and Patrick Bruel (Toutes ces choses qu’on ne s’est pas dites), Sathy Ngouane and Axelle Renoir (Manipulations), François Clos (Les disparus de Bas-Vourlans), and Damien Salançon (Bayala, Cherif).

More recently, he participated in the arrangements for the show 80 minutes, performed notably at the Philharmonie de Paris, the composition of the ballet Water Games & Choices and several soundtracks for short films and documentaries, including Le piment, Oh, l'eau, l'eau : les fontaines Wallace, Ambre, and Upside Down Revolution. His first EP, Atlantis, consisting of a three-movement suite for harp, cello, and string orchestra, and a melody for soprano, cello, and piano on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, was released in 2019.

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