Armando Trovajoli

A jazz pianist and arranger, Armando Trovajoli was born in Rome and trained at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. He wrote hundreds of film scores for De Sica, Risi, Scola and Magni, among them Two Women, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style and A Special Day. For the stage he wrote Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola with Garinei and Giovannini; Rugantino includes the song Roma nun fa' la stupida stasera. He died in 2013. He completed his piano studies at Santa Cecilia in 1948 with Libero Barni, represented Italy at the Paris jazz festival the following year, and directed a RAI orchestra in Rome. Monicelli was among the directors he worked for, Ciao, Rudy among the shows written with Garinei and Giovannini, and the concert catalogue includes Puppet for violin, strings, piano and percussion and Sconcerto for double bass and strings. In 2007 he received a David di Donatello award for his career.