Andrea Morricone

Andrea Morricone composed the Love Theme from Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, whose score earned him and his father a BAFTA. He has composed film scores, among them Liberty Heights, Capturing the Friedmans, The Inquiry and L'industriale, as well as for Italian television. Born in Rome in 1964, he has won the Globo d'Oro more than once and wrote the theme for the 2015 Milan Expo, performed by Andrea Bocelli. He conducts as well as writes, building symphonic programmes from his own music and Ennio Morricone's, and was announced as principal conductor of the touring Ennio Morricone concert celebration scheduled to begin in November 2022. His first teacher was his father, and he graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome in composition in 1994 and in conducting with Bruno Aprea in 1996, adding a period of specialisation in 1998 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Franco Donatoni and Azio Corghi. The Cinema Paradiso score won the BAFTA in 1991, and his score for L'industriale won the composing prize named after his father in 2012; father and son also collaborated on other film and television scores. He has conducted the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest, and has written chamber and symphonic music heard at contemporary music festivals.