Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times wrote, "In addition to doing the interviews, Stranded's director 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."
Born in 1979 to a family of musicians, pianist and composer Florencia Di Concilio started her musical studies in Montevideo, Uruguay, 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.
Over the past few years Florencia Di Concilio has scored more than 20 feature films and feature documentaries for ARTE, the BBC, Bravo, HBO, Sundance, Canal +, etc, working with a wide range of award winning directors such as Peter Wintonick, Angus MacQueen, or Gonzalo Arijon, with whom she frequently collaborates.
On 2007 Florencia composed and recorded the original soundtrack for "STRANDED: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains", by G. Arijon. The film has won an outstanding number of international awards, including the Joris Ivens Prize and was part of the official selection at the 2008 Sundance Festival. Stranded opened in theaters across the U.S. with raving reviews from the New York Times, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and the L.A. Times.
Mark Holcomb, from Time Out New York writes, "Arijon's footage underscores his thematic inquiry at least as effectively as Florencia Di Concilio's moody ambient score."
Recently, Florencia has composed the original soundtrack for Nick and Marc Francis' Sundance/BBC/ARTE production "China Africa", Gonzalo Arijon's "Eyes Wide Open", Israeli director Noa Ben Hagai's "Blood Relation", and Alain Monne's "L'Homme de Chevet", a French feature film starring Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.
L'Homme de Chevet's original soundtrack has garnered critical praise by magazines like VARIETY and has been released on CD by Milan Records/Universal.
Florencia just finished the soundtrack for Angus Macqueen's feature documentary on Ingrid Betancourt, and is currently working on the original music for "The Road to Bethlehem" by Palestinian director Leila Sansour, and for Emmy nominated American-Iranian director Tanaz Eshaghian's new film.
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, and has composed music for a film by celebrated artist Camille Henrot commissioned by Jeu de Paume, the French national museum. The Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra has commissioned Florencia a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered in their next season.
Florencia Di Concilio has served as guest lecturer, panelist, and has been invited to conduct music workshops at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy, the Sundance Festival, the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal and the SEE Festival in Brighton.
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