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Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times wrote «In addition to doing the interviews, director Arijon 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, Uruguayan pianist and composer Florencia Di Concilio started her musical studies in Montevideo, 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.
Florencia Di Concilio has scored films by directors Juan Pittaluga, George Walker, Melody Bridges and Bernard Debord for the Franco-German television station ARTE, the BBC and Canal +. She has also scored films for Peter Wintonick, prolific award winning filmmaker, and frequently collaborates with award winning director Gonzalo Arijon.
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, for ARTE, ITVS (USA), and BBC (UK). 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."
Florencia has just finished the original soundtracks for Melody Bridges' "A Wing and a Prayer", Gonzalo Arijon's "Eyes wide open", and Alain Monne's "L'Homme de Chevet", starring Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert, and is currently scoring Alexa Schulz' "Living with the Dead", and Palestinian director Leila Sansour's latest documentary.
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 comissioned by Jeu de Paume, the French national museum.
Florencia Di Concilio has served as guest lecturer and panelist at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy and at the Sundance Festival, and has been invited to conduct a film music workshop at the 2008 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal, along with Canadian award winning director Philippe Falardeau.
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