Orchestra Italiana del Cinema is the first non-profit organization and the first symphonic ensemble that is exclusively dedicated to the interpretation and performance of film music. The care and support of the extraordinary artistic heritage of Italian film scores, that can boast a glorious tradition of great prestige, are the underlying values of this new and ambitious project.
The O.I.C. has united 150 hand-picked musicians among new young talents and seasoned veterans from Italy’s best orchestras.
Orchestra Italiana del Cinema has directly and indirectly attracted the major movie score writers, and has at the heart of its mission important objectives of great cultural and institutional importance:
- To re-evaluate and to promote the Italian film score’s cultural heritage by means of multimedia concert events throughout Italy and in Europe’s major cities and artistic sites.
- To bring back to Italy those film score productions and talented composers that have “emigrated” to eastern European countries offering low cost services.
- To generate employment and high quality musical training for talented young musicians.
- To attract foreign productions to Italy.
- To sustain the famous “Made in Italy” trademark through the vehicle of artistic and cultural excellence.
The ensemble has already undertaken an intense recording, didactic, and concertizing schedule, principally characterized by the aforementioned multimedia events.
Orchestra Italiana del Cinema was born within the confines of the Forum Music Village which is home to the historic recording studios created in the late 1960’s by four encyclopaedic musical figures, namely Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovajoli, and Piero Piccioni. The “Forum” is trully the Italian film score’s most historic site. Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Leonard Bernstein, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Asnavour, Alberto Sordi, Sophia Loren, Bill Conti, Vangelis, Ermanno Olmi, the Taviani brothers, Nicola Piovani, Pino Donaggio, Riz Ortolani, Gianni Ferrio, Franco Piersanti, Giuseppe Tornatore, Roberto Benigni, Nanni Moretti, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola, and Carlo Verdone are but a few of the great artists, along with the original founders, that have left their mark that one can still perceive when entering the grand Studio A, a studio unique in all of Italy for its ability to accommodate one hundred or more musicians in a single recording session.
The concert events of the O.I.C. have been created with the purpose of giving renewed value to the excellence of the Italian cinematographic tradition and in particular to its movie soundtracks.