Speakers
Mike Ladouceur, Independent
American-British composer, Mike Ladouceur, is among the most exciting and significant talents emerging today, with many high-profile film, TV, game and live event projects to his name. Renowned on both sides of the Atlantic, his musical style blends orchestral and ambient electronic textures, and has been described by Grammy nominated conductor and orchestrator, Jeff Atmajian, as like listening to a beautiful impressionist painting. Most recently, Mike worked with Chromatic London as music team lead to compose the bespoke music and sound design for the internationally broadcasted show 1001 Seasons of Elie Saab. Under the music Direction of Daniel Thibaut, Mike and their team wrote the finale for Celine Dion and worked closely with Jennifer Lopez's team to orchestrate her set. They recorded their score at the world famous Abbey Road studios. Mike has composed and arranged music for many high profile private events for major designer brands and Royal events. Mike composed the music for a VR game, Trailblazer, with the EMMY Nominated Singer Studios; starring and Executive produced by Daisy Ridley. His debut feature film, How I Faked My Life With AI, had it's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2024 to great acclaim. Just before this, he completed Mizu, a documentary series about Japanese culture in Italy, produced for TaTaTu which was written up in Rolling Stone. Mike's debut album, Between Worlds, was recorded at Angel Studios with a 42-piece orchestra and was launched at an immersive art installation at London's Hospital Club with bespoke visuals. He has written additional music and arrangements for His Dark Materials (HBO/BBC), Marcella (ITV/Netflix), Love. Wedding. Repeat (Netflix), and for Master Moley (Nottage Productions) starring Gemma Arterton, Charles Dance, Julie Walters, and Warwick Davis. He has also worked as Orchestrator on The Outer Worlds 2 (Obsidian) and Honor of King's (Tencent) as well as many major film projects including Black Widow (Disney), Mission Impossible: Fallout (Paramount), Ad Astra (Plan B), Gemini Man (Skydance/Paramount), 6 Underground (Netflix), Looking Up (Tianjin Chengzi Yinxiang Media), Where's My Roy Cohn? (Sony) and Nae Pasaran (BBC Scotland). Mike is a passionate educator, holding faculty positions at both Cambridge University and Royal College of Music teaching composition for visual media. He has created his own online course which has helped over 150 students as well as a 6-week intensive in orchestral writing; where he led participants through the process of writing and recording their pieces for full orchestra with multiple large-scale recording sessions.