Ennio Morricone

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Ennio Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television as well as over 100 absolute music works and is one of only two film composers in history to have received the honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement. Highlights include his scores for Once Upon a Time in the West, One Upon a time in America, A Fistful of Dollars, The Untouchables and The Mission. Morricone’s score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly holds the number two position in the Top 200 ranking of best film soundtracks ever composed.

The internationally renowned Italian film composer will conduct three concerts in Italy in the summer of 2017, continuing a large-scale world tour started in 2016, with a completely new program to mark his 60-year Anniversary as a professional composer and conductor.

The 2016 tour followed a hugely successful European arena tour that saw the Maestro perform to over 150,000 audience members in 22 European cities. Across the continent the tour received standing ovations and overwhelming critical acclaim in the media.

Composing his first work for a western since Once Upon A Time In The West over 45 years ago, Morricone recorded the score for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. In 2016 he was honored with the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work.

Ennio Morricone also reunited with director Giuseppe Tornatore on the romantic drama The Correspondence, which starred Jeremy Irons. Its release was exactly 30 years after the 1986 release of “The Mission”, which also starred Irons. Morricone and Tornatore previously collaborated on Cinema Paradiso, Malena, The Legend of 1900, Baaria and The Best Offer.