Maurizio Malagnini

Emmy-nominated and internationally award-winning composer Maurizio Malagnini is renowned for his emotionally rich scores for film and television. Blending lyrical orchestration with deep character insight, his music resonates long after the screen fades. Over more than a decade, Maurizio has brought his distinctive voice to projects including the hugely popular BBC series Call The Midwife, the animated live action feature film Coppelia, ITV’s Peter and Wendy, and the BBC drama The Paradise.

In demand for his ability to vary his palette of sounds and styles, each time bringing the audience to the heart of the story, Maurizio’s scores have earned him an EMMY® Award Nomination, multiple IFMCA Awards, including Film Score of the Year and Breakthrough Composer of the Year, and four Music+Sound Awards.

Maurizio is known for his work on the Neal Street produced Call The Midwife, for which he has composed the score for twelve seasons, and his further projects include the live action version of the ballet Coppelia, the BAFTA Nominated film The C Word, featuring a minimalistic and subtle score mixing electronica with string orchestra, Peter and Wendy, based on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan novel and The Body Farm, a 6-episode spin-off from Waking The Dead. For this he created an energetic, hybrid score showcasing an edgier contemporary sound, blending strings with electronics.

Invited by producer Simon Lewis to score The Paradise, a TV series based on the French novel The Ladies’ Paradise by Émile Zola, this projectallowed Maurizio to turn to his first love, blending his operatic influences – this time from French Opera Comique – into his score. Maurizio’s music became the pulsating heart of the characters and has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece of musical storytelling’, earning Maurizio’s creative talent international recognition, including his first EMMY® Award Nomination and three Music+Sound Awards.

Italian-born Maurizio’s first musical love was Italian Opera, especially the lyrical melodies of Rossini and Puccini. During his ten years of academic studies at an Italian conservatoire, he came into contact with the music of the greatest Italian film composers, in particular Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. Upon completion of his degree in symphonic composition at the Conservatory in Italy, Maurizio headed to the UK to attend the Royal College of Music, where he graduated with a Masters Distinction in Composition for Screen.

Maurizio was selected by BBC Worldwide to score the animation show Muddle Earth. His adventurous, epic music was recorded by the 95-piece BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and contributed to the success of the 26-episode BAFTA-nominated series. The creativity in his composition impressed orchestra manager Richard Wigley, who commissioned Maurizio to compose the Symphonic Suite Running In The Clouds, broadcast nationwide on BBC Radio 3. The Suite was premiered by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to a standing ovation, inspiring the Arts correspondent Adrian Mullen to write: “Running In The Clouds received an amazing reaction from concertgoers. The composition painted a vivid musical landscape, every bit as evocative as a Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony”.