For your GRAMMY® consideration: “Forte: Film Soundtrack”

FORTE: Film Soundtrack

For your GRAMMY® consideration, in six categories:

- Best film score: Lucía Caruso

- Producer of the year: Pedro H. da Silva

- Best instrumental composition: “Forte Orchestral Suite“

- Best arrangement: “Forte Orchestral Suite“

- Best engineered album: Paul Geluso, Marlan Barry, Pedro H. da Silva

- Best electronic recording: “Forte Techno (Remix)“

Performed by The Orchestra Now, Lucía Caruso, and Pedro H. da Silva

The feature-length documentary Forte explores the notion of success through the lens of three female musicians. Using classical music as a powerful example, Forte reveals realities of societal expectations women face today as private and professional individuals. Conceived in February 2017 and filmed in Argentina, France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States, Forte received its premiere in 2019.

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FORTE Orchestral Suite

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LIGHT & SOUND FILM SCORING

"... music that soars in astonishing lyrical emotion and rhythmic drive"

– Fanfare Magazine

2019 Cannes Film Festival: American Pavilion - Winners, Best Emerging Documentary “Death Metal Grandma”

2020 Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Venice Biennale “4 Feet High”

2021 South By Southwest Film Festival: Winners, Audience Award & Jury Award “4 Feet High”

“Forte,” an upcoming David Donnelly film starring Lucía Caruso, Tatiana Berman, Eldbjørg Hemsing, and with guest appearances with some of classical music's biggest names. Music by Lucía Caruso, orchestrated by Pedro H. da Silva. Red carpet world premiere on January 25th 2019 in NYC.

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LIGHT & SOUND FILM SCORING is a New York based film composing duo comprised of Manhattan Camerata's Artistic Director, Lucía Caruso and NYU professor of composition and film scoring, Pedro H. da Silva.

Recently, their film scoring projects were officially selected at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, 2020 Venice Biennale, and won the Audience Award & Jury Award at the 2021 South By Southwest (“4 Feet High/Metro Veinte”). The duo were also winners of the Best Emerging Documentary at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, American Pavilion, for the film about them and their music project “Death Metal Grandma”.

Lucia and Pedro have recorded two film scores for Oscar-winning director Michel Gondry (“Be Kind Rewind,” and “Interior Design” from the “Tokyo” triptych). Together, they also composed a full album of chamber and orchestral pieces which was recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studio 1 with the London Metropolitan Orchestra. They are composers in residence with the Orchestra of the Swan in Stratford-Upon-Avon, have performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. and the London Symphony Orchestra. Naxos Records nominated The Manhattan Camerata's latest album, Tango Fado Project, for the Official Grammy 2017 Selection. Their nominated categories included “Best New Artist," “Producer of the Year,” "Best World Music Album," “Best Engineered Album," and four songs were nominated for "Best Composition/Arrangement." The ensemble most recently won Best Instrumental Performance at the prestigious 2017 International Portuguese Music Awards.

Transclassical Music™

A term Lucía Caruso coined to describe a style based on classical music techniques, improvisation, and elements from different cultures and eras in a variety of styles and genres, integrating classical and world instruments. The term ‘Transclassical’ implies that this genre can bridge the different classical music traditions from around the world.

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