about me 

Bachelor’s in Music Composition, Master’s and PhD in Audiovisual - all at University of Sao Paulo – USP, Anselmo Mancini is a modern and versatile Brazilian composer who has been accumulating a wide range of studies and work experience over the last decade. His technological approach has added to his ability of composing, orchestrating and arranging for diverse types of music styles, the opportunity to participate in several kinds of musical projects.

 

In 2019 he was selected as a finalist of the Cine Concerto Festival in Italy, where he was awarded with 2nd prize. In 2018 he performed at G-Summits in San Francisco and Chicago, USA and Bogota, Colombia. In 2017 he participated in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival as a composer and a representative of the dance film Vanitas, debating with directors about the artistic process within their works. In 2014 was a finalist of the Transatlantyk Instant Composition Contest in Poland, where he was awarded with 4th prize and honorable mention for original rhythmical work (with two Oscar winners among the jury: Jóhann Jóhannsson and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, the director of the festival). Also, in 2014 he presented his paper on Villa-Lobos’ music for the feature “The Discovery of Brazil” at the Surrey Film Music Conference, in the UK.

 

As music director and composer of Teatro de Narradores, he presented the spectacle “Final City – Choir City – Reverse City” at the Book Fair 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. Moreover, in 2013 he worked on four Bertolt Brecht’s texts: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (music by Rafael Amaral); and the operas He Who Says Yes (music by Kurt Weill); He Who Says No (music by Mancini); and The Decision (music by Hans Eisler).

 

In 2012 he was awarded with the Santander Bank Scholarship of International Mobility in order to attend an exchange postgraduate program in Film Studies at King’s College London, UK. Mancini has also performed at Montreux Jazz Festival 2006, Switzerland; participated in the International Gran Canaria Summer Festival of Choir Conductors 2009, Spain (where two of his pieces for choirs were premiered: En las Noches Claras and Anhelo Infantil); and, SMI Postgraduate Conference 2013, Ireland, where he presented his article “The Musical Accompaniment in the Cinematographic Universe, and performed on the piano his soundtrack for Max and the Lady Doctor, by Max Linder.

 

As the founder of Cine Concerto Brasil (www.cineconcerto.com.br) - platform specialising in cine concert performances - among several scores, Mancini has recomposed Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, "The Lodger", and the Japanese classical "Dreams", by Akira Kurosawa. Both works were premiered at MIS – Image and Sound Museum, in Brazil, with tickets sold out and extra sessions (also sold out). The Hitchcock one was also performed at Rational Theater in Munich, Germany; being successfully praised by the German audience and specialised critics.

 

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