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Andrea Farri is an Italian composer who has worked on over 20 different film and television productions.
He began playing and writing music at 9. Then, at age 17, he started composing for theatre and dance companies. Shortly thereafter, Andrea was given the Assistant Director position on Roberto Benigni's film with Tom Waits: The tiger and the snow.
In 2005, he wrote the soundtrack for two of Jean Vigo’s silent films, “A propos de Nice” and “Taris”. That project led to a European tour including live performances while the film played on a screen in the background, just as in times past.
Andrea began scoring movies after he received his masters degree from Rome University. Highlights of his educational experience were studying under the Sicilian pianist Andrea Alberti and the American composer Richard Trythall.
In 2008, wanting to create a new sound, Andrea began mixing electronics with string quartet pieces. A sound that, later that year, became the best selling soundtrack in Italy in the film “Un Gioco da Ragazze”.
Farri is a pianist who also likes to play analog keyboards and program digital sounds. His style is a mix between classic orchestra and electronics - as Alex Ross says, "the logical product of the 80s generation who has grown up studying classical music in the morning, playing jazz in the afternoon and then dancing to electronic beats that night."
An italian soundtrack magazine classified Andrea’s style as dark neo-romantic, and in fact he loves thrillers, film noir and action movies. His favorite composers are Bernard Herrmann and Trent Reznor.
Andrea works also as a songwriter for many European and American artists, in and out of the film industry.
In 2013 the italian paper "La Repubblica" named Andrea as one of the top italian composers.
