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Florencia Di Concilio

About Me

Born in 1979 to a family of musicians, Uruguayan pianist and composer Florencia Di Concilio started her musical studies in Montevideo, her hometown. In 1997 Florencia was invited to pursue her studies at the School of the Arts of the College of Charleston SC on a full scholarship. In 2003, also under a full scholarship, she received a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston. Upon graduation she moved to Paris, where she studied composition and orchestration at the Paris Conservatory.

As a classical pianist, Florencia has won top prizes at national and international competitions as well as performing as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Americas and Europe.

Florencia Di Concilio has composed and recorded the soundtracks to many independent films, including documentary films by directors Gonzalo Arijon and Bernard Debord for the Franco-German television station ARTE. She also scored a long feature film by director Juan Pittaluga for Canal +, a musical comedy produced by the FEMIS (the French state film school), and an art film by celebrated artist Camille Henrot for Jeu de Paume, the French national museum.

On 2007 Florencia composed and recorded the original soundtrack for "STRANDED: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains", by award winning director Gonzalo Arijon, for ARTE, ITVS (USA), and BBC (UK). The film has won an outstanding number of international awards, including the Joris Ivens Prize, the top award at the Amsterdam International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Miami International Film Festival and at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Jury and Audience Grand Prize at the Malaga International Film Festival, the Jury's Grand Prize at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and was part of the official selection at the 2008 Sundance Festival. Stranded just opened in theaters across the U.S. with raving reviews from the New York Times, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and the L.A. Times.

Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times wrote «In addition to doing the interviews, director Arijon had other ways of making his narrative especially effective, starting with utilizing the film's delicate, otherworldly score by composer Florencia Di Concilio to add a disturbing air to the proceedings.»

"Arijon's footage underscores his thematic inquiry at least as effectively as Florencia Di Concilio’s moody ambient score." Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York.

Florencia has just finished the original soundtracks for "Maria y el Nuevo Mundo", by George Walker, and for "PilgrIMAGE", by Peter Wintonick, prolific award winning filmmaker and one of Canada's best known international documentarians.

She is currently scoring Gonzalo Arijon's new film, Palestinian director Leila Sansour's latest documentary, as well as composing the original soundtrack for "L'Homme de Chevet", a feature film directed by Alain Monne starring Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.

In addition to film scoring, Florencia Di Concilio frequently receives commissions from dance and music ensembles, such as the Ensemble 0 and the acclaimed CobosMika contemporary dance company.

Florencia Di Concilio has recently served as guest lecturer and panelist at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy and at the Sundance Festival, and has been invited to conduct a film music workshop at the 2008 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal, along with Canadian award winning director Philippe Falardeau.

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Member Since: 09/12/2006
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My Blog

STRANDED wins Special Jury Prize and Audience Prize at the Malaga Film Festival!

and so it goes.
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:06:00 GMT

STRANDED wins Grand Prize at the Guadalajara International Film Fest!

STRANDED wins Grand Prize at the Guadalajara International Film Fest!
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:02:00 GMT

STRANDED wins audience award at Miami International Film Festival!

and anooooooother prize!
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:05:00 GMT

Stranded wins grand prize at BIFF!

"Sundance 2008's most celebrated film..." - Indiewire. "a cinematic tour de force...the deftly wrought tale will have audiences eating out of its hand."- Variety. and I just learned it won another p...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:05:00 GMT

STRANDED wins top prize at the IDFA

So "Stranded" (last film I scored) won the Joris Ivens Award, the top prize at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival: the most prestigious documentary film festival in the world. I gue...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:09:00 GMT

SUNDANCE FESTIVAL

yup, just got back from the world premiere of the last film i scored in Amsterdam (well i mean, i scored it here but the world premiere was in amsterdam... whatever) and holy freak...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:58:00 GMT