31st March 2016, 7pm Enrica SciandroneOn the occasion of the festival Cinema Made in Italy:ITALIAN FILM COMPOSERS AND LONDON: MARIANELLI - PIERSANTI - SCARLATO - SCIANDRONE 

Music by Oscar winner Dario Marianelli, celebrated “Montalbano” composer Franco Piersanti, and the emerging composers Dimitri Scarlato and Enrica Sciandrone

Lesson/concert presented by Enrica Sciandrone

Piano: Enrica SciandroneViolin: Yuri Kalnits Violoncello: Hannah Schofield

Enrica Sciandrone:Former pianist, Enrica studied traditional and contemporary composition in Italy, gradually bringing her mastery and experience to screen composition since 2006. Ennio Morricone, John Corigliano and Ryuichi Sakamoto are among the composers who recognised her talent and achievements (respectively, at the III Premio Petrassi International Composition Competition in 2009, at the ISFMF Awards in 2014 and at Berlinale Talent Campus 2012 mentoring scheme). Other awards include the 2012 Peer Raben award at Soundtrack Cologne; 2012 Jerry Goldsmith Award in Music for Adverts, Spain; RMA-LA grant at the 2012 ASCAP workshop in Los Angeles; Leverhulme Trust, Fabrica Dei Talenti Scholarship and J. Horovitz award in composition for screen (2008-2010).In 2012 she has been one of the three composers selected for the Score Competition at Berlinale Talent Campus, scoring J.P.Zaramella Luminaris (recorded at Babelsberg Studios by Babelsberg Orchestra, Potsdam, Germany).In the same year she has been selected among the 12 participants of the prestigious ASCAP TV and film scoring workshop with Richard Bellis, recording with the Hollywood Studio Orchestra at Fox studios, Los Angeles.Together with her own professional commitments, she also worked as assistant for Academy award winning composer Luis Bacalov (2005-2007) and as score programmer and assistant for Emmy award winner Javier Navarrete (2012, Wrath of the Titans; 2014, Zhongkui).She has composed soundtracks worldwide for several award-winning independent films, documentaries, animations and TV commercials. Recent feature-lengths commitments include Love Of My Life (2013, UK/Australia, drama/thriller), The Serbian Lawyer (2014, UK/Serbia, documentary), We Are Many (2014, UK, documentary) and A Quintet (2014, drama).She is currently developing an original project in music narrative exploring the potential of programmatic music and audience responses, bringing her experience as screen composer back to the concert hall: as part of this project, she has been commissioned by renown ensemble PSAPPHA a new concert piece to be performed in summer 2015 (as winner of the call for new works organised by Curated Place and Moving Classics – European Network for New Music supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union).

Since 2012 Enrica is Professor of Composition for Screen at the prestigious Royal College of Music of

London. Yuri KalnitsA recipient of the prestigious Diapason d’Or award for his recording of Weinberg’s Violin Sonatas, Yuri Kalnits was described by reviewers as ‘an interpreter of the highest order’.  He has participated in festivals throughout the world and has played at many important venues including The Purcell Room, St. John’s Smith Square, Barbican, St. Martin-in the-Fields, Small Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Centre and Suntory Hall. Tours have taken him to Russia, Ireland, Germany, Israel, France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, USA, Hong Kong and Cyprus. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Mozart Festival Orchestra, London Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kazan Chamber Orchestra, Minsk Symphony Orchestra and the New Philharmonia Koln to name a few. Equally active as a chamber musician, he joined the Erato Piano Trio in 2010 and has since performed with the group across the UK and recorded for Toccata Classics.Born in Moscow into a musical family, he studied at Moscow’s Central Music School and at the Gnessin Music School for Gifted Children. At the age of 16 he began studying at the Royal College of Music (London) with Itzhak Rashkovsky. He won major prizes, notably the Bromsgrove and Watford Music Festivals in England, the Yehudi Menuhin Award from the Sudborough Foundation, KPMG/Martin Musical Scholarship (UK), Cziffra Foundation competition (France), Web Concert Hall Competition (USA), Barthel Prize from the Concordia Foundation. Upon graduation from the RCM Yuri was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship for postgraduate studies there.  He completed his training with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Vasko Vassiliev at Trinity College of Music whilst receiving further artistic guidance from eminent musicians such as Shlomo Mintz, Abram Shtern, Igor Oistrakh, Edward Grach, Sergei Fatkulline, Sylvia Rosenberg and Valentin Berlinsky.

Hannah SchofieldSince completing her undergraduate and post-graduate cello studies at Trinity College of Music, Hannah has pursued various orchestral engagements with The Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, LPO, Thames Festival Orchestra, Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Symphony Orchestra and played to the cello section of the Dresden Staatskapelle in Dresden.Whilst remaining focused on her freelance orchestral career, she has continued to develop her passion and experience in solo playing, chamber music and session work. This has led her to perform at various venues across the world including Le Grand Palais, Paris; Shanghai Concert Hall, Dresden Staatsoper, Aarhus concert hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Britain amongst many others.She has taken part in various mainstream events supporting headline artists such as Cee Lo Green and has been featured in various major press publications and advertising campaigns.

Dario MarianelliDario Marianelli is an Italian composer of film and concert music. Born in Pisa, he started piano studies and began singing as a chorister at age 6. When his voice broke, he devoted himself to

playing piano and composing. He studied privately and took exams as an external student in nearby Florence, Lucca, and Livorno, and also studied counterpoint before moving to England. There, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and spent three additional years studying at the National Film and Television School. His film career extends back to 1994 with his score for Paddy Breathnach's movie, Ailsa. Over the course of two decades, he composed music for such films as “The Brothers Grimm”, “V for Vendetta”, “Agora”, “Eat, Pray, Love”, “Jane Eyre”, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” and “Quartet”, as well as many others. He has achieved recognition for his work with filmmaker Joe Wright, providing scores to the films “Pride and Prejudice”, “Atonement”, “The Soloist”, and “Anna Karenina". Among his honours, Marianelli was nominated for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe for the movies “Pride & Prejudice” and “Anna Karenina". He won the Oscar, Golden Globe, the BAFTA, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award, and the World Soundtrack Award for the movie “Atonement”.

Franco PiersantiFranco Piersanti is an Italian composer and conductor, renown for the beautiful music of the worldwide successful TV Series “Inspector Montalbano”.Born in Rome, Piersanti graduated in double bass at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied composition under the guidance of Armando Renzi and conducting under Franco Ferrara and Piero Bellugi. He later played bass in the RAI Symphony Orchestra. During his studies he knew the composer Nino Rota, and he became his assistant between 1975 and 1977.[2] In 1976 he debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film, “Io sono un autarchico" and then started a long collaboration with him that continued with Moretti's “Habemus Papam" (2011).Piersanti is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for who he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006, including “The Stolen Children” and “Lamerica” for which he won two David di Donatello for Best Score. His soundtracks include “The Best Day of My Life”, “My Brother is an Only Child”, “The Beast in the Heart”, “Fort Apache Napoli”, “Love and Fear”, “The Second Time” and “Inspector Montalbano”.

Dimitri ScarlatoDimitri Scarlato is a Composer and Conductor born and bred in Rome where he studied Composition, Piano and Conducting at the Conservatorio di Musica S.Cecilia. In 2004 he moved to London to attend an MMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and in 2014 he completed a DMus in Composition at the Royal College of Music, which in 2010 selected him as a RCM Rising Star.His music has been performed in several venues across Europe and Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Italian institution which regularly worked with Stravinsky) premiered his opera Fadwa in May 2013 at Teatro Olimpico, Rome.In 2007 he worked in the music pre-production of Sweeney Todd, by Tim Burton, and in 2009 he composed the music for The City in the Sky, which has been selected at the 66th Venice Film Festival. In 2011 Dimitri has been selected at VOX3 - Composing for Voice at the Royal Opera House of London, and at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 as a film composer. In this 2014 he has been the music/conducting coach for sir Michael Caine on the new Sorrentino’s film Youth (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and released in the UK 2016). In 2015 he won the 3rd Composition Competition at the International Spring Orchestra Festival, with his piece Caduceo, written for two pianos. Over the last two years he has been working on several cinematic projects, including Sparks & Embers, a British independent film starring Kris Marshall that has been released last winter.He is currently completing the soundtrack for Thala my love, an independent film about the “Arab spring” in Tunisia.