Frédéric Filiatre is a French composer for visual media, sound designer, and multidisciplinary artist. His work is recognized both in the performing arts, particularly contemporary dance, theater, and circus, and in film and audiovisual creation.

For more than thirty years, he has developed a distinctive artistic approach based on the dialogue between sound, image, movement, and space. His work is characterized by a particular attention to sound textures, emotional storytelling, and the subtle connections that bring different forms of artistic expression together.

Drawn to sound and visual arts from an early age, he studied music at the Conservatoire de Reims, France, and later in Liège, Belgium, where he further developed his skills in composition, improvisation, and trombone performance. Over the years, he has performed with various classical, contemporary, and improvisational ensembles, developing an approach that is at once rigorous, intuitive, and open to experimentation.

His artistic journey has led him to collaborate with choreographers, directors, circus artists, visual artists, and filmmakers. Initially deeply involved in the performing arts, he composed numerous works for contemporary dance, theater, and contemporary circus, before progressively expanding his activities into film scoring and international audiovisual productions.

As co-director of the Wa·táa dance company, he takes on a variety of artistic roles, including composer, artistic director, stage director, photographer, and filmmaker. This experience has shaped a comprehensive vision of the creative process, in which boundaries between disciplines dissolve in favor of a transversal approach combining music, image, live and stage performance.

Based in Panama, at the heart of an exceptional natural environment, Frédéric Filiatre draws a significant part of his inspiration from the living world. His work as a field recordist, photographer, and filmmaker directly informs his musical language. Soundscapes, natural rhythms, and the interactions between human beings and their environment occupy a central place in his creative practice.

Alongside his work as a composer, he also works as a sound designer and audiovisual post-production specialist. This combination of artistic and technical expertise enables him to contribute to projects with an in-depth understanding of the entire audiovisual production and post-production process.

In 2025, his work received international recognition when the original score for the feature-length documentary El Brujo, directed by film directors Félix Guardia and Tomás Cortés, received the Award for Best Original Music score at the IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles, presented by the International Documentary Association. The distinction recognized a sensitive and immersive musical approach in service of the documentary narrative.

Today, Frédéric Filiatre continues to collaborate with filmmakers, producers, artistic companies, and cultural institutions. His work constantly explores new forms of dialogue between music, image, and movement, driven by the belief that music can reveal what sometimes remains invisible on screen: emotions, memory, narrative tensions, and the profound connections that unite living beings with their environment.

Through each of his creations, he seeks to design sound worlds that do more than simply accompany images, but actively contribute to the construction of the narrative and to the viewer’s sensory and emotional experience.