Laura Rossi
Key details:
- Department:
- Electronic & Produced Music
- Role:
- Professor in Film Music
Biography
Laura Rossi is a composer for film, television and concert music. Credits include London to Brighton, The Cottage, BBC The Eichmann Show, Song for Marion, Hurricane and Battle of the Somme.
The British Film Institute has commissioned Laura to score silent movies including Silent Shakespeare, Twilight of a Woman’s Soul, Tusalava and Jane Shore. She has toured performing live with film at The Globe, Barbican, British Silent Film Festival, National Film Theatre & London, Madeira, Belfast and Sao Paulo film festivals.
The Imperial War Museum commissioned Laura to score the iconic, UNESCO listed 1916 film The Battle of the Somme. The score was recorded and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and released on CD and DVD to worldwide critical acclaim. In 2016-17 one hundred orchestras worldwide performed the score live with film including at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Concerts were watched live by over 37,000, performed by 4,200 musicians, and televised live on BBC1 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Concert works include Voices of Remembrance, a choral/ orchestral work featuring poetry read by Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave performed multiple times to critical acclaim, including at Jersey Opera House & Manchester Cathedral.
Her music has been performed by the Philharmonia, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, at the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Laura is a professor of film music at the Guildhall School of Music and London Film Academy and regularly gives masterclasses about film composition.
'A new music score by Laura Rossi, brilliantly effective’
Geoff Brown, The Times ★★★★★
‘Extremely accomplished music’
The Independent.
‘A terrific composer’
Simon Bates, Classic FM
‘Laura Rossi very adeptly creates an emotional picture through impressive orchestral writing which is at once colourful, honourable, celebratory and moving.’
Michael Beek, Music from the Movies.
‘Her orchestrations are on par with those of the great Hollywood composers. This is a truly breathtaking score, incredibly well written and performed.’
Oscar Flores, Filmmusicsite.com