Daniel Giorgetti

Who is Daniel Giorgetti?

Daniel Giorgetti is a British composer of concert music and film and television scores . Giorgetti was born in London and studied piano and composition at the London College of Music with Martin Ellerby, and the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh. His concert music has been performed in festivals and concert series in the US, the UK and mainland Europe – including the Park Lane Group Series, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Gaudeamus Foundation New Music Week in Amsterdam. It has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His music has been awarded several prizes, among others the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal, a Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust award and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers' Award in 2000.

Giorgetti's work for film and television includes scores for both dramas and documentaries, and embraces an extremely versatile range of styles and instrumentations. Especially acclaimed have been his scores for The Somme, Rothko in the Simon Schama series Power of Art and The Last Days of the Raj directed by Carl Hindmarch. His drama credits include the RTS award-winning BBC film The Curse of Steptoe and ITV's Caught in a Trap, both directed by Michael Samuels. Recent scores include the widely praised ITV series Collision and Mrs Mandela. Giorgetti has also contributed scores to the long-running ITV series Foyle's War. His most recently televised project was the Golden Globe nominated BBC drama series The Hour which received a warm critical reception in the UK and US.