About me

Caterina Schembri is an Italian-Colombian composer and orchestrator specialized in music for visual media. Her music has been successful on the screen featuring on films from diverse genres and origins including UK, Spain, Colombia, USA, Greece, Ireland, and Costa Rica. Caterina has a strong presence on the stage having her music performed in numerous venues of her native country and recorded with top-class musicians in state of the art recording studios from different parts of Europe. Caterina has also worked as Orchestrator and in the score preparation department for TV and Film productions in Malaysia and Korea. In December 2018 she became one of the founding members of Sonic Gate Studios, an international collective of sound artists working in music and sound for multimedia. She’s currently based in Dublin working in different projects as composer, orchestrator, and creative director. http://caterinaschembri.com

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Projects

• Postcards: Sounds for IrelandThe memory of an Irish landscape through the eyes of a composer gets a new life reimagined as a piece of music.
• Aljafería: 6 MiradasSix rooms of the palace were assigned to six composers in chronological order of construction. Each room was, at the same time, associated with a different area of the surrounding region of Aragón. These associations were made based either on historical, aesthetic, or conceptual details. The composers then received a brief document explaining the history of the building and of each room, as well as the concept behind the relationship with its surrounding landscapes. The composers were requeste

Work history

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Music ComposerFreelance
Jan 2015Dublin, IrelandFreelance
Composition and production of original for visual media. Includes a wide range of projects and directors in fiction, documentary, and animation.
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Music ComposerOrquidea Negra Films
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017Bogotá, ColombiaFull Time
Composition of the original music for the Costa Rican Motion Picture "Despertar"-"Awakening" directed by Soley Bernal. The movie was awarded best movie in Lo Nuestro Awards and is now playing in USA theatres.

Skills

• Music Composition
• Orchestral Music
• Film Scoring
• Arranging Music
• Conducting
• Logic Pro
• Music Supervision
• Sibelius
• Colour
• Creative Conceptualisation
• Creative Direction
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Education

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MA in Scoring for Film and Visual MediaPulse College
Sep 2017Dublin, Ireland
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Diploma in Sound and Music for FilmUniversidad de la Sabana
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia

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