Daniel Giorgetti
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Daniel Giorgetti was born in London and studied piano and composition at the London College of Music with Martin Ellerby, and the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh.
He has been awarded several prizes, among others the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal, a Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust award and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers' Award in 2000.
His music has been performed in festivals and concert series – including the Park Lane Group Series, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Gaudeamus Foundation New Music Week in Amsterdam. Works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, Channel 4 and Five.
His work for film and television includes drama documentaries The Somme (Darlow Smithson Productions / Channel 4), Rothko in the Simon Schama series Power of Art (BBC) and The Last Days of the Raj (Blast Films / Channel 4) directed by Carl Hindmarch.
His most recent score is for the BBC drama The Curse of Steptoe directed by Michael Samuels (Our Hidden Lives). Starring Phil Davis (Five Days) as Wilfrid Brambell and Jason Isaacs (The State Within) as Harry H Corbett, the film focusses on the real life drama being played out in the lives of these two comedy icons.
