Andrea Ridolfi

Who is Andrea Ridolfi?

Andra Ridolfi studied doublebass and complementary piano at "Licinio Refice" – College of music in Frosinone. He achieved the study of musicality and composition. In 1984 he graduated at the State Institute for Cinematography and Television "Roberto Rossellini" in Rome. A proved polyinstrumentalist and MIDI-Programmer, he has worked with various composers like Luis Enríquez Bacalov, Egisto Macchi, Carlo Crivelli, Ralph Towner, Stelvio Cipriani and Carlo Crivelli. 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.