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Kristian Sensini

He is a Piano and Flute player with Classical and Jazz Background studies, with credits for Movies and Tv shows, Documentaries, Animation projects. From 2010 Sensini received a total of 9 Nominees for Best Score (categories Feature Film, Documentaries, Promotion, Best Song, Best Short) at the Jerry Goldsmith International Film Music Award. In 2013 he won the Global Music Award for the soundtrack of the horror movie “Hyde’s Secret Nightmare” In 2014 he won the ColonneSonore Award for the soundtrack of the Animation Movie “Rocks in My Pockets”. The movie and his soundtrack were candidates at the 2015 Academy Awards. In 2020 he won the Global Music Award for his solo album “KuartetS” Sensini studied at Conservatory “G. Rossini” (Italy) composition, arrangements, piano and classical flute. He’s attended Master classes and Composition Workshops with Ennio Morricone, Ludovic Bource, Nicola Piovani, Michael Giacchino, Danny Elfman, Bruno Coulais, Abel Korzeniowski, Hans Zimmer, Murray Gold, Nathan Barr, Dave Grusin and Christopher Lennertz. He also studied Orchestration and Composition with Conrad Pope, orchestrator for John Williams, Howard Shore, Alexandre Desplat, Alan Silvestri.

EDUCATION He takes private piano lessons with M°Matassini, M° Paolo Mikolajczyk and M°Enrico Reggioli; at the age of twelve he starts making his first experiments in Electronic Music and Computer Music, which will lead him to form several ensembles of modern music (i.e. DrinkwaterBand) with such points of reference as Stockhausen, Cage, and Zappa. He studies flute with M° Andreani (Ancient Music), Jousdottic and Adami (Classical Music). After getting the Liceo Classico school-leaving certificate, he attends the DAMS (Department of Music and Performing Arts) in Bologna, directing his studies towards Musical Education and Anthropology.

2020 Danny Elfman Online Film Music Masterclass 2019 Online Courses Cinematic Composition – Andy Hill Scoring the Screen 2018 Hans Zimmer Masterclass at View Conference (Turin) 2016 Hans Zimmer Online Film Music Masterclass First Flute Masterclass with James Galway 2014 Studied in Wien (Hollywood Music Workshop) Orchestration and Composition with Conrad Pope, orchestrator for John Williams, Howard Shore, Alexandre Desplat, Alan Silvestri. He takes part in the Film Music Composition workshop in Cordoba (Spain), where he attends classes with Abel Kerzeniowski, Rolfe Kent, Christopher Lennetrz, Cesar Benito, John Lunn, Craig Safan, Sergio Moure de Orteyza 2012 He gets the Master’s Degree in Didactics at the University of Macerata He is admitted to the “International Laboratory of Film Music” at “Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia” in Rome where he studies with Ennio Morricone, Sergio Bassetti, Paolo Buonvino, Federico Savina, Carlo Siliotto, Giovanni Rotondo, Shie Rozow (Music Editor for Danny Elfman), Pivio, Carlo Crivelli. 2010 He takes part in the Film Music Composition workshop in Ubeda (Spain), where he attends classes with Michael Giacchino (Academy Award Winner for “Up” and composer for the TV series “Lost”), Dave Grusin (Academy Award Winner for “Milagro” and composer for “The Goonies”), Nathan Barr (composer for the TV series “True Blood”), Randy Edelman (composer for the movie “Dragonheart”), Christopher Lennertz (composer for the movie “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and for the “Medal of Honor” videogames). 2009 He takes the teacher’s diploma exam for Music Education at Pesaro ‘s Conservatory. He passes the final exam with full marks writing a degree thesis (title: “Jazz: a Game for Kids”) dealing with the theme of teaching Improvisation to pupils plus a didactic project based on and dedicated to Musical Theatre. 2007 He takes his Jazz degree with full marks at Pesaro ‘s Conservatory, with a dissertation about how the flute came to Jazz Music; there, he studies Arrangement and Composition with Bruno Tommaso and Gian Marco Gualandi, Jazz Flute and Improvisation with Giulio Visibelli, History of Jazz Music with Stefano Zenni, Electronic Music with Eugenio Giordani, Piano with Enzo Veddovi. From 2005 to 2008 he attends the classical flute course at the same Conservatory withM° Fulvio Farnedi. He’s also taken private lessons with the great saxophonist David Liebman and with the guitarist Augusto Mancinelli. 2001 He wins a scholarship of $5000 awarded by the Boston’s Berklee College of Music to the most praiseworthy musicians at the clinics held in Perugia (Umbria Jazz 2001), when he studies with Matt Marvuglio, Dave Clark, Jim Oldridge, Mark White and Jeff Stout. 2000 Seminar meeting with Goran Bregovic, “Balkan Melodies between Cinema and Music”. Workshop of Electro-Acoustic Composition with Tristain Murail and Salvatore Sciarrino. Summer courses of the Berklee College of Music of Boston held in Perugia during Umbria Jazz: he studies Flute with Matt Marvuglio, Improvisation with Mark White, Composition with Orville Wright and Greg Hopkins, and takes part in the extraordinary seminars of Winton Marsalis, James Moody and Gary Burton. Musicological exams taken at the DAMS: History of Music; Methodology of Musical Education; Semiotics of Music; History of Medieval Music; History of Contemporary Music; Philosophy of Music; Psychology of Music; History of Musical Instruments; Ethnomusicology; Afro-American Musical Culture. There, he also attends a Direction course and classes of History of Scenography in performing arts 1999 Workshop of Improvisation with Michele Lo Muto, at CIMES, Bologna. 1998 Laboratory of Musical Informatics and New Technologies at the Electronic Music Studios of the Conservatory of Bologna (maestro Camilleri) and at the Fonoprint recording studios. Advanced seminar on problems and aspects of the twentieth-century music coordinated by Raffaele Pozzi.

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“Kristian Sensini cultivates an “alternative” and laboratorial style which leads him to a very particular use of the so-called “digital palette”, in the attempt to go beyond the mere mimesis of a traditional orchestra and instead pursuing a more heterodox creative sound, interchanging precise, realistic acoustic references and abstract, elusive, dreamlike soundscapes. Sensini has achieved a very luxurious and ambitious score, inspired to the soundtracks of the “giallo all’italiana” films of the 70s (Goblin in the first place).Aware as we are of evoking a cliché, we would obviously be intrigued to hear this gifted composer in something having a greater production commitment, also from the point of view of the film “text”, to better understand his ability to transmit images through sound, remaining true to his omnivorous linguistic curiosity. But the freedom of expression and communication which Sensini, technically prodigious, has here enjoyed wouldn’t be probably guaranteed. Let’s congratulate a talent of the first order.” Roberto Pugliese ( “Hyde’s Secret Nightmare” colonnesonore.net)

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Flute

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Intermediate to advanced

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