About
Mathieu Alvado
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Mathieu Alvado

Composer for film, television and video games.

Recent projects include the Netflix animated series Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight, the video game Empire of the Ants, the film Tempête by Édouard Salier and the forthcoming adventure series The Emperor’s Stone. He also composed the score for the animated film Lovebirds, due for release in 2027.

After earning six first prizes at the Bordeaux Conservatory, Mathieu Alvado continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), where he won three prizes in harmony, counterpoint and fugue.

His work as an orchestrator and conductor extends his work as a composer. He has collaborated with Pierre Adenot (La Belle et la Bête), Guillaume Roussel (Les Trois Mousquetaires, Chien 51) and Erwann Kermorvant (Overdose, Carbone), and with Christophe Héral as an arranger (Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne, Rayman Legends).

He has recorded and conducted several ensembles, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Paris Scoring Orchestra and the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. These sessions have taken him to London’s AIR and Abbey Road studios, as well as to Babelsberg in Berlin.

Centre national de la musique
Awards
2026
  • Best Original Score — Apollo Global Music Awards · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
  • Best Score for a Series — U2C · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
  • Best Television Score — International Film Music Critics Association · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
  • Best Animated Series Score — Movie Music UK · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
2025
  • Best Score for a Series — Association des critiques de séries · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
  • Golden Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Composer — Jerry Goldsmith Awards
  • Nomination for Best Video Game Score — Ivor Novello Awards · Empire of the Ants
  • Best Score for a Series — Reel Music Awards · Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
  • Best Short Film Score — Reel Music Awards · Don Quichotte contre les Forces du Mal
2020
  • Best Animated Short Score — UCMF · Blind Eye
  • Best Animated Short Score — UCMF · Royal Madness
2019
  • Best Short Film Score — Fimucité · Rebirth
  • Best Short Film Score — Los Angeles Film Awards · Safety
  • Nomination for Best Music in a Television Production — Annie Awards · Back to the Moon
2018
  • Best Animated Short Score — UCMF · A Song for the Whales
2016
  • Best Short Film Score — Fimucité · To Build a Fire
2013
  • Jerry Goldsmith Award — Best Advertising Score, La Journée Pomme d’Api — Jerry Goldsmith Awards
2012
  • Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Composer — Jerry Goldsmith Awards
  • Best Song — Jerry Goldsmith Awards · L’Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace
  • Best Short Film Score — Jerry Goldsmith Awards · L’Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace
2011
  • Best Short Film Score — Courts Devant · L’Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace
2009
  • Best Short Film Score — Premier Regard · Love Recipe
2008
  • Best Short Film Score — Effets Stars · Steel Life
55 credits
Selected credits
Composition
2027 · Coming soon

The Emperor’s Stone

Series · (Alliance européenne, NOLITA, Aircraft Pictures)

2027 · Coming soon

Lovebirds

(TAT Productions) Laurent Bru et Hélène Blanchard

Tempête — visuel de presse
2027 · Coming soon

Tempête

(Screenline Productions) Edouard Salier

Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
2025

Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight

(Netflix) Alain Chabat & Fabrice Joubert

Don Quichotte contre les Forces du Mal
2025

Don Quichotte contre les Forces du Mal

(Sacrebleu Productions) Guillaume Rieu

Lemonade
2025

Lemonade

(Nexus Productions) FX Goby

Empire of the Ants
2024

Empire of the Ants

(Tower Five/Microids) Renaud Charpentier

The Smurfs and the Magic Grimoire
2024

The Smurfs and the Magic Grimoire

(Ellipse Animation) Arnaud Janvier

Celebrating Pétanque
2022

Celebrating Pétanque

(Google) Hélène Leroux

Zweifel Story
2020

Zweifel Story

(Juice)

Ghost of a tale
2019

Ghost of a tale

Lionel Gallat

Blind Eye
2019

Blind Eye

(Gobelins) Isabela Littger de Pinho, Germaine Colajanni, Bruno Cohen, Rohan Deshchougule, Rohit Kelkar, Diego Porral, Yujia Wang

Royal Madness
2019

Royal Madness

(Gobelins) Milàn Salmona, Mriganka Bhuyan, Romain Couderette, Eunbyeol Ko, Sean Lewis, Wenkai Wang

Rebirth
2018

Rebirth

(Juice) Marcin Karolewski

Safety
2018

Safety

Fabrice Joubert

Back to the Moon
2018

Back to the Moon

(Google) FX Goby & Hélène Leroux

A Song for the Whales
2017

A Song for the Whales

Lorenzo Fresta

To Build a Fire
2016

To Build a Fire

(Composite Films) FX Goby

Quenottes
2016

Quenottes

(Zeilt Productions) Pascal Thiebaux

Tarim le Brave contre les mille et un Effets
2015

Tarim le Brave contre les mille et un Effets

(Metronomic Productions) Guillaume Rieu

La petite robe noire
2015

La petite robe noire

2014

Rien ne peut t’arrêter

(ASM) David Hourrègue

Floating in my mind
2013

Floating in my mind

(Les Gobelins) Hélène Leroux

Pomme d’Api
2012

Pomme d’Api

L’Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace
2011

L’Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace

(Metronomic Productions) Guillaume Rieu

Le Royaume
2010

Le Royaume

(Les Gobelins) Ulysse Malassagne, Nuno Alves-Rodrigues, Kevin Aymeric, Oussama Bouacheria, Julien Chheng, Franck Monier

2008

Love recipe

(Supinfocom) Felipe Pizarro Saenz de Urtury, Frédéric Bajou, Morgan Bourdon

Al Dente
2007

Al Dente

(Supinfocom) Jean-François Barthélémy, Carlos Felipe Leon, MaëlFrançois

Orchestration, arranging & conducting
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Orchestration · conducting2026

Les Rayons et les Ombres

Xavier Giannoli · Score by Guillaume Roussel

13 jours, 13 nuits
Orchestration · conducting2025

13 jours, 13 nuits

Martin Bourboulon · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Chien 51
Orchestration · conducting2025

Chien 51

Cédric Jimenez · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Loups-Garous
Orchestration · conducting2024

Loups-Garous

François Uzan · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Ici et là-bas
Orchestration · conducting2023

Ici et là-bas

Ludovic Bernard · Score by Guillaume Roussel

10 jours encore sans maman
Orchestration · conducting2023

10 jours encore sans maman

Ludovic Bernard · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Milady
Orchestration · conducting2023

Milady

Martin Bourboulon · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Loin du périph — affiche officielle du film
Orchestration · conducting2022

Loin du périph

(Mandarin et Compagnie) Louis Leterrier · Score by Guillaume Roussel

D’Artagnan
Orchestration · conducting2022

D’Artagnan

Martin Bourboulon · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Black Beauty — affiche du film Disney+
Orchestration2020

Black Beauty

Ashley Avis · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Le Lion
Orchestration · conducting2020

Le Lion

Ludovic Colbeau-Justin · Score by Erwann Kermorvant

Le Voyage du Prince
Orchestration · conducting2019

Le Voyage du Prince

Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard · Score by Christophe Héral

Carbone
Orchestration · conducting2017

Carbone

Olivier Marchal · Score by Erwann Kermorvant

HHhH
Orchestration2016

HHhH

Cédric Jimenez · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Human
Orchestration2015

Human

Yann Arthus-Bertrand · Score by Armand Amar

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux
Orchestration2014

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux

Louis Clichy, Alexandre Astier · Score by Philippe Rombi

L’Enquête
Orchestration · conducting2014

L’Enquête

Vincent Garenq · Score by Erwann Kermorvant

Outcast
Orchestration · conducting2014

Outcast

Nick Powell · Score by Guillaume Roussel

La French
Orchestration · conducting2014

La French

Cédric Jimenez · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Rayman Legends
Orchestration2013

Rayman Legends

(Ubisoft) Michel Ancel · Score by Christophe Héral et Billy Martin

Braquo
Orchestration · conducting2013

Braquo

(saison3) Olivier Marchal · Score by Erwann Kermorvant

3 days to kill
Conducting2013

3 days to kill

Mc G · Score by Guillaume Roussel

La Belle et la Bête
Orchestration2013

La Belle et la Bête

Christophe Gans · Score by Pierre Adenot

20 ans d’écart
Orchestration · conducting2013

20 ans d’écart

David Moreau · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Les seigneurs
Orchestration2012

Les seigneurs

Olivier Dahan · Score by Guillaume Roussel

Thérèse Desqueyroux
Orchestration · conducting2012

Thérèse Desqueyroux

Claude Miller · Score by Mathieu Alvado

Rayman Origins
Orchestration2011

Rayman Origins

(Ubisoft) Michel Ancel · Score by Christophe Héral et Billy Martin

The adventures of Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn
Orchestration · arranging · conducting2011

The adventures of Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn

(Ubisoft) Jacques Exertier · Score by Christophe Héral

Mathieu Alvado