Enrica has a broad experience in the composition field, mainly consisting in screen music, together with music for theatre and concert works. She has been working as freelancer with TV teams, production companies and Cinema and Theatre Academies in Italy and UK.  

Former pianist, she started her career in composition in 2005, achieving outstanding recognitions such as her MMus in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music of London (2010, awarded with distinction and supported by Leverhulme Trust, Henry Wood Scholarship, Fabrica Dei Talenti Scholarship) and the First Prize at the Premio Petrassi International Competition (2009, Latina, Italy; head of jury: Ennio Morricone).

She moved in UK in 2008; she has composed soundtracks in Italy and UK for several independent films, documentaries, animations and commercials. Recent commissions include a new orchestral work to be premiered in 2012 for the IV edition of Premio Petrassi and her work as score programmer and Award Nominated composer Javier Navarrete's assistant for Wrath Of The Titans.

In 2012 she has been one of the three composers selected for the Score Competition at Berlinale Talent Campus, scoring J.P.Zaramella Luminaris (recorded at Babelsberg Studios by Babelsberg Orchestra, Potsdam, Germany). 

Her experience was enhanced by having been Academy Award Winning composer Luis Bacalov’s assistant from 2005 to 2007, working as orchestrator, copyist and editor of some of his works (Psalmi, Musica nel Pallone, Missa Tango).

Other previous experiences include the commission of three musicals from the Conservatoire of Frosinone (Il Tempio della Critica, Paradisi Pucciniani and Un’avventura chiamata Europa), the latter of which received the High Patronage of the Italian Department of University and Research. 

Since October 2010 she is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, teaching Music for Media.

Since September 2011 she is Professor in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music.

 

Awards and Nominations

  • Peer Raben Award Nomination at Soundtrack Cologne 2011 (best music for a short film, Half Moon soundtrack)
  • Jerry Goldsmith Award nomination for Big Ben (2011) at Ubeda Festival, Spain.
  • Peer Raben Award Nomination at the Soundtrack of Cologne 2010 (best music for a short film, Big Ben soundtrack)
  • First prize at the International Composition Competition Premio Petrassi (head of jury: Ennio Morricone; Italy, 2009).
  • J. Horovitz Award in Composition for Screen (Royal College of Music, London, 2009), not assigned since 2004, when Michael McEvoy, the former area leader of the course in Composition for screen, received it. 
  • Finalist at the Sound of Perfume Competition with Lunantica (Britten Theatre, London, 2009)
  • Leverhulme Trust recipient (2008-2010, UK)
  •   Henry Wood scholarship recipient (2008, UK)
  •  Fabrica Dei Talenti scholarship recipient for her outstanding skills and achievements in composition and academic studies (2008, Italy)
  • Special Award at the International Composition Competition Premio Petrassi (head of jury: Ennio Morricone; Italy, 2007).
  • Vinicio Mancini scholarship as best graduated student at Conservatoire L. Refice 2007
  • Emma Contestabile Scholarship (2005 – 2006, Italy) offered by International Chigiana Academy of Siena for her achievements at Luis Bacalov’s Masterclass in Composition for Screen
  • First Prize at the Rotary Club Competition with Canzone e Danza (2005, Auditorium of Rome, Italy; performed by Gomalan Brass Quintet)
  • Finalist at the Vieri Tosatti Composition Competition with Monologo Interiore (2005, Auditorium of Rome, Italy; performed by Piccola Orchestra 900)

 

Education

 

  • MMus in Advanced Composition (Composition for Screen) with distinction at the Royal College of Music (London, 2010)
  • Composition Degree (M. Antonio Di Pofi, 2007, Italy)
  • Postgraduate degree in Musicology at La Sapienza University of Rome (2007)
  • Merit Degree at the Composition for screen course of Chigiana Academy (M. Luis Bacalov, 2005)
  • Master in composition for screen at National Cinema School of Rome (2004).
  • Piano Degree (M. Gilda Buttà, 2000, Italy)