Andrea Ridolfi
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Andra Ridolfi studied doublebass and complementary piano at “Licinio Refice“ – College of music in Frosinone
. He achieved the study of musicality and composition with Maestro Carlo Crivelli
. In 1984 he graduated at the State Institute for Cinematography and Television “Roberto Rossellini” in Rome. A proved polyinstrumentalist (double bass, bass, cello, guitars, piano and drums) and MIDI-Programmer, he has worked with various composers like Luis Enríquez Bacalov
, Egisto Macchi
, Carlo Crivelli
, Ralph Towner
, Stelvio Cipriani
. He has composed soundtracks for cinema, theatre, television, discography and advertising since 1983. Such activity took him, from 1985 to 1997, to collaborate with CAM in Rome. He showed his experience as an arranger and conductor of orchestra, personally safeguarding the recording of musics.
Two of the most important works of that period are: “Totò, the Prince of Satirical Comedy” in 1993, and: “The Italian Neorealism” in 1994. On those occasions, Andrea Ridolfi rewrote all the score for orchestra starting from the vision of the films and then recorded them with “The Bulgarian Symphonic Orchestra” in Sofia
(Bulgaria
). As a musical consultant, he has worked at several movie soundtrack compilations Nino Rota
, Luis Enríquez Bacalov
, Carlo Rustichelli
, Armando Trovajoli, Alessandro Cicognini
, Stelvio Cipriani
), sharpening his own knowledge about Italian cinematography. In 1994 he started collaborating with another Roman musician, Vito Abbonato, with whom he has realized different projects, the most important being the realization of the music for a sit-com: “Domenica in”, an Italian format of the Sunday afternoon by RAIUNO (RAI - ITALIAN TELEVISION NETWORK) (1998-99) http://www.archivio.raiuno.rai.it/schede/0023/002387.htm. They compose the music for the important Italian fiction on RAITRE (RAI ITALIAN TELEVISION NETWORK): “La Squadra” http://www.lasquadra.rai.it/R2_paginaSpalla/0,11017,231-7699,00.html, 55 episodes (2005-06/2006-07).
In 2009 he composed the music for the documentary film on the life of Guido Romanelli
(Guido Romanelli - Mission in Budapest, directed by Gilberto Martinelli). In December 2009, during the presentation of documentary film in Hungary
, he held a concert for piano, cello and guitar, in the Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest (01 December 2009). In 2010 he composed the soundtrack for the movie directed by Massimo Bonetti "Quando si diventa Grandi" (Azteca Productions).
Frosinone
Frosinone is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the Province of Frosinone. It is located about 75 km south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples Autostrada A1...
. He achieved the study of musicality and composition with Maestro Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione and Mantegna...
. In 1984 he graduated at the State Institute for Cinematography and Television “Roberto Rossellini” in Rome. A proved polyinstrumentalist (double bass, bass, cello, guitars, piano and drums) and MIDI-Programmer, he has worked with various composers like Luis Enríquez Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov is a prolific Argentine, naturalized Italian, composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award...
, Egisto Macchi
Egisto Macchi
Egisto Macchi was an Italian composer.Born in Grosseto, he made his musical studies in composition, piano, violin and singing in Rome. He died in Montpellier, France.-Sources:...
, Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione and Mantegna...
, Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
, Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani born 20 August 1937 in Rome is an Italian composer, notably for motion picture soundtracks.Though not coming from a musical background, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church's organ. His priest gave him his first music lessons and encouraged Cipriani and his family...
. He has composed soundtracks for cinema, theatre, television, discography and advertising since 1983. Such activity took him, from 1985 to 1997, to collaborate with CAM in Rome. He showed his experience as an arranger and conductor of orchestra, personally safeguarding the recording of musics.
Two of the most important works of that period are: “Totò, the Prince of Satirical Comedy” in 1993, and: “The Italian Neorealism” in 1994. On those occasions, Andrea Ridolfi rewrote all the score for orchestra starting from the vision of the films and then recorded them with “The Bulgarian Symphonic Orchestra” in Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
(Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
). As a musical consultant, he has worked at several movie soundtrack compilations Nino Rota
Nino Rota
Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
, Luis Enríquez Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov is a prolific Argentine, naturalized Italian, composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award...
, Carlo Rustichelli
Carlo Rustichelli
Carlo Rustichelli was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music for television....
, Armando Trovajoli, Alessandro Cicognini
Alessandro Cicognini
Alessandro Cicognini was an Italian film music composer.Cicognini was classically trained at the Milan Conservatory of Music. He composed 106 soundtracks between 1936 and 1993, many of them for filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. His score for The Bicycle Thief was awarded Best Soundtrack of the Year...
, Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani born 20 August 1937 in Rome is an Italian composer, notably for motion picture soundtracks.Though not coming from a musical background, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church's organ. His priest gave him his first music lessons and encouraged Cipriani and his family...
), sharpening his own knowledge about Italian cinematography. In 1994 he started collaborating with another Roman musician, Vito Abbonato, with whom he has realized different projects, the most important being the realization of the music for a sit-com: “Domenica in”, an Italian format of the Sunday afternoon by RAIUNO (RAI - ITALIAN TELEVISION NETWORK) (1998-99) http://www.archivio.raiuno.rai.it/schede/0023/002387.htm. They compose the music for the important Italian fiction on RAITRE (RAI ITALIAN TELEVISION NETWORK): “La Squadra” http://www.lasquadra.rai.it/R2_paginaSpalla/0,11017,231-7699,00.html, 55 episodes (2005-06/2006-07).
In 2009 he composed the music for the documentary film on the life of Guido Romanelli
Guido Romanelli
Guido Romanelli was an Italian army officer.At the end of the First World War, Colonel Guido Romanelli became chef of the Italian Military Mission to Hungary from May to November 1919...
(Guido Romanelli - Mission in Budapest, directed by Gilberto Martinelli). In December 2009, during the presentation of documentary film in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, he held a concert for piano, cello and guitar, in the Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest (01 December 2009). In 2010 he composed the soundtrack for the movie directed by Massimo Bonetti "Quando si diventa Grandi" (Azteca Productions).