Andrea Ridolfi

Biography

He 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).