Outline Sound for Maestro Nicola Piovani

Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani amplified by “Mantas Outlinearray” at Villa Fenaroli

Brescia (Italy), 1^st July 2010 – World-famous pianist, composer and orchestra conductor Nicola Piovani has composed hundreds of soundtracks for films and television transmissions in over forty years of career.

Even if objectively the list would be long, the most famous is without doubt the score of the Roberto Benigni film "Life is beautiful", winner of an Oscar as best music and also nominated for a “Grammy Award”, one of the most important awards in the United States for results achieved in the music industry sector. The maestro also composed the music for the last three films by Federico Fellini.

As well as in Italy, Piovani has also worked considerably abroad, thanks to projects realized along with film directors such as Bigas Luna, Joe Stelling, John Irving, Ben Von Verbong, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Sergei Bodrov and John Harrison.

On July 1^st, the splendid setting of Villa Fenaroli – one of the most prestigious 18^th century Lombard villas and a national monument (located 5 km. from the centre of Brescia) – hosted his “Concerto in quintetto”, a work proposing music written for the cinema, theatre and concerts, specially rearranged by Nicola Piovani, in a version for a small group of soloists, in which the piano, played by the composer himself, has a particularly outstanding role.

Once again, where nuances made the difference, there was an Outline sound reinforcement system.

Cipiesse Produzioni per lo Spettacolo (www.cipiesse-bs.it) – owner of the Outlinearray system – was the Brescia rental firm handling the operation.

The Outline rig used for the “Concerto in quintetto” included 9+9 VLA Mantas, 2+2 Subtech 218 and T7 power amplifiers.