Raphaël Treiner

Language Coach

An instrumentalist, composer, singer, diction coach, screenwriter and film director, who moves between classical and popular forms.

After winning first-prize as a cellist in Paris, Raphael Treiner turned to lyric singing, in which he earned degrees in Paris and from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

His love for Opera and French literature has led him to teach at the EMION music school in Normandie. While in New York he became a French diction coach for singers (Opera Orchestra of New York, MSM…) and created an Opera & French literature class at the Alliance Française–French Institute.

He has written original scores for theater and dance performances (Le dibbouk by Shalom Anski, L’île des esclaves and Le petit maître corrigé by Marivaux).

Passionate about cinema, Mr. Treiner has composed and recorded soundtracks for several commercials and short films, including The Piano Tuner (L’accordeur–César for Best Short Film), Unicornio (Rodrigo Bellott) and Témoins (David Koch) in 2016. He designed the sound environment and wrote the music for the web documentary A Whaling Season In Alaska (Victor Gurrey & Zoé Lamazou). He co-wrote the original soundtrack for To Whom It May Concern (Manu Boyer) as his first feature film score. He appears frequently in a range of venues, from La Fête de l’Huma to Bus Palladium to Solidays. He performs in various collaborations, including a solo project under the name SHERIFF.  Sursis, a short film released this year, was his debut as both a writer and director.