The Giornate Masterclasses in silent film accompaniment have today a world-wide reputation for their unique contribution to this very specialized field of music, and there are already plans to extend the idea to other centres. They are open to festival guests, who are discovering that the Masterclasses provide one of the best shows in town. In particular they offer new insights into film interpretation. The best film musicians, as we discover, require and develop a much deeper insight into the film’s content, psychology, and structure than the rest of us, and our musicians collaborate to impart something of this, in the course of the masterclass sessions, in a way that is illuminating even to the most sophisticated film scholars.
The first aim of the masterclasses is to refine and develop the technique of young artists embarking on film accompaniment, and we are always in search of likely candidates.