Maurizio Malagnini is a composer based in London whose work spans drama, animation, documentaries. His music has been broadcast internationally on the main European networks BBC ONE, BBC TWO, ITV, MTV, SKY, RAI. He has produced his scores for the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, LEnsemble dellOpera di Roma and his own ensemble, Cinema Paradiso. Maurizio has recently completed the score for a 8 part drama series for BBC1 called “The Paradise”. The show has been the most successful new drama produced by the BBC in 2012 and is returning in autumn for a second season. Before this, he scored a crime Drama, “the Body Farm”. This series is a spin-off of the popular long running crime drama series ‘Waking the Dead’. He has also completed a symphonic suite commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and inspired by the runs in the Lake District of Joss Naylor MBE. This work has been premiered in January 2012 by the BBC Philharmonic and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Before this, he composed the score for "Muddle Earth": the BBCs first in-house 26 episode animation series. The music for the show was performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: the conductor of the score was Jeff Atmajian, well known for his orchestrations of films such as King-Kong, Harry Potter and Big Fish. In 2011 the animation series Muddle Earth has been nominated at BAFTA in the category Best Animation. In 2009, Maurizio was one of 12 emerging composers from around the world and the only one from the UK to be selected for the prestigious ASCAP Filmscoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Hollywood. After several years producing scores for Italian animation, often with the Oscar nominated and Gold Bear winner director Bruno Bozzetto, in 2008 he composed the music for an animation TV series of 26 episodes which has been broadcast on RAI (Italian national television) directed by Bruno Bozzetto: the project was awarded the prize for Best TV series for young adults at the international festival of animation "Cartoons on the Bay" in Rapallo, Italy and his score was nominated for best soundtrack at the same festival. In 2008 Maurizio began his collaboration with the director, Salvatore Nocita, winner of the International Film Festival in Montreal, The Nice Film Festival and of the Italian Nastro dArgento. His first project with Nocita was to score the documentary “Giovanni XXIII, il pensiero e la memoria”, produced by RAI trade and Istituto Luce and broadcast on RAI and internationally. The work was also presented at the International Festival of Television products in Cannes. He has more recently scored a docu-fiction about the Italian painter Ligabue which was presented at the Rome Film Festival in October 2009. Between 1996 and 2005 he studied Harmony, Counterpoint and Orchestration under the supervision of Stefano Gervasoni (currently Professor of Composition at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris). Since graduating, while studying at Accademia Chigiana he was awarded the Emma Contestabile Award by Oscar winning composer Luis Bacalov. In July 2008 he graduated from the Royal College of Music with a distinction in a Masters in Composition for Screen and with the highest mark of his year. While studying for his Masters with Joseph Horovitz and Howard Davidson he was awarded the Frederick Cox award, the Lucy Ann Jones Award and the Adrian Cruft Award by the Royal College of Music as well as being a recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council award.