Ennio Morricone is an Academy Award winning composer, orchestrator, and conductor from Italy. Considered one of the most influential, versatile, and experimental composers of all time, he has produced more than 500 scores and over 100 classical works. He was indoctrinated in music by his father who gave him his first lessons on how to read music and taught him how to play various instruments. He wrote his first score at six, with his parents providing a nurturing environment for his talent to grow. The first instrument he learned in a formal setting was a trumpet. His career as an arranger began in 1950 and four years later he started working on film projects as a ghost writer. In 1964, he founded the ‘Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza’ (G.I.N.C.) along with Franco Evangelisti and Egisto Macchi and had been one of the main members until the group’s disbandment in 1980. He was one of the principal contributors in setting up the legendary recording studio ‘Forum Music Village’ in 1969. Some of his best-known compositions are ‘The Ecstasy of Gold’, ‘Se Telefonando’, ‘Man with a Harmonica’, ‘Here's to You’, ‘Chi Mai’, ‘Gabriel's Oboe’ and ‘E Più Ti Penso’.