Antón García Abril was born in Teruel in 1933. After studying in Spain he went to Italy to attend the ‘Accademia Chigiana di Siena’ musical courses, where he studied composition with Vito Frazzi, conducting with Paul Von Kempen and film-music with Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. The latter was to have a great influence upon Abril’s first…
Claudio Gizzi, a classical pianist, started working for cinema in a very strange way. While he was a little boy, Gizzi was one of the sopranos in the Cappella Giulia in St. Peter. Armando Renzi, the director of the choir, gave him some piano and composition lessons. Then he studied at the “Instituto di musica…
Can you tell us something about your musical training? I started studying music quite late around the age of seven, and started playing piano at ten. I had a very dedicated teacher, so I had a complete musical education. I was known as a child prodigy in the local newspapers and that pleased me very…
Although popular in his native France for his light and tuneful film scores, Philippe Sarde has gained a notable reputation in America for his more symphonically-oriented film compositions. First brought to Stateside attention when he scored Roman Polanski’s TESS, Sarde subsequently provided notable scores for GHOST STORY, QUEST FOR FIRE and PIRATES. He has also…
Not since the making of BODY DOUBLE (1984) have you collaborated with Brian De Palma. I believe the reason you weren’t called to score his last four films was because of the plots…? He and I both understood that he would only ask me to score films that he had written himself, not commissioned films….
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