Artistic Qualities

Versatility:

an ability for ranging over many musical fields: from contemporary music to soundtracks; from opera to big band music; from pop music to video game music

Orchestration and scoring:

a complete mastery of the “Symphony Orchestra Instrument”

Arrangement:

a great ability for placing himself in the style and the mood of a variety of musical pieces, even the pieces written by other people

Professional experience

He composes and performs his own 'background' music in many cinema reviews and festivals for authorial silent films:

Caught in a Cabaret (by Charles Spencer Chaplin - 1914)
Pandora's Box (by Georg W. Pabst - 1928)
Un Chien Andalou (by Luis Buñuel - 1929)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1928)

Art Galleries

Music inspired and composed after Kandinskji's pictures
Pianistic atonal improvisations

Theatrical Performances:

Not(t)e di Natale - (2004) Music by Claudio Mattioli, Denis Biancucci, Cristiano Alberghini - Arrangement and Orchestration Cristiano Alberghini
Three Golden Hairs (Den drei goldenen Haaren - 2006) - after a tale by the Brothers Grimm's “Household Tales”
When a Lion Knocked at the Door - (2006-2007)
Project in the Final of the Prize “Scenario Infanzia” 2006 - Original Script Caterina Bartoletti
In Search of the Vanished Princess - (2007) Subject Elisa Del Piccolo
He has collaborated to the show 'Hollywood Dreams' for the season 2008/2009 to Gardaland (Park in Italy) - Direct by Federico Bellone
Francesco, l'uomo di Dio - (2009) Music by Claudio Mattioli, Denis Biancucci, Cristiano Alberghini - Arrangement and Orchestration Cristiano Alberghini

Cinema

“L'alba di Luca” - by Roberto Quagliano - Kamel Film (Bologna-Italy/2002)
“I fratelli d'Italia” - by Roberto Quagliano - Kamel Film (Bologna-Italy/2005)
“Come sono? Boh!” - by Roberto Quagliano - Kamel Film (Bologna-Italy/2007)
“Nomos” - by Giovanni Modaffari - The Sponk Studio (Italy/2008)
“Women@work” - by Daniele Balboni (Italy/2009)

Even if he has kept alive through the years his own profession as an organ performer, he has also worked as a keyboard programmer because of his versatility and abilities; especially in the American tour with the Maestro Andrea Centazzo, who wanted him as his own collaborator even on several other occasions (operas, CD recordings, live concerts).

He composed some pieces for the Performance “No(t)te di Natale”, which he has completely orchestrated, and which has been recorded later on together with the Szeged Symphonic Orchestra (Hungary) and published by the musical and record company “San Paolo”, Italy

Technical abilities

Thorough knowledge of the musical programs on MAC and PC, electronic keyboards, samplers, synthesizers and similar equipment.

He uses for his works:

Sound Hardware:

VST - Instruments

Or...

Staff and pencil...

Titles and Qualifications

Composition Diploma

Organ and Organ composition Diploma

Choir Music and Choir Conduction Diploma

Diploma assigned from the foundation of the state of Moscow in Russian “Irina Arkhipova Fondation” for the music composed and orchestrated at the Culture Festival between the two Ministries of foreign Affairs of Italy and Russia (choreography Nicolay Androsov)

Prize for the Best Music for the “dancing rehearsals with modern music” in the international competition organized by the CID International Tanzrat der Unisco in Vienna at the “Museum Quartier Theatre”

Winner of the “Premio Felice e Luigi Magone” Composition Competition

Winner of the “Fondazione Carlo Carolina Bianca e Santina Zucchelli” Composition Competition and Scholarship

Certificate “Musica Senza Frontiere” at the 7th edition of the international master class for composers (professor: Pascal Gallois)

Certificate for the course on the interpretation of the Northern Germany organ Repertoire, Professor: M. Harald Vogel (Certificate given by the Fondazione Accademia di Musica Italiana per Organo - Pistoia)

What I Offer

My abilities and the electronic equipment I am in possession of allow me to compose and consign a musical piece on CD, DVD, file and other technological media as a finished, ready for use product

The symphony orchestra, together with every single instrument I use, can rival the quality of a live orchestra or instrument; for this reason I can obtain a very high quality product lowering significantly the production costs

My pieces are fit for many uses: background music for documentaries or videogames; soundtracks for motion pictures or radio and television
commercials; different kinds of art displays and exhibitions; any field of the human activities in which a quality sound impact and output can be important to catch the attention, to capture the interest of the audience or of the users of a service

I collaborate with differently structured Italian, French and

Hungarian symphony orchestras both for recordings and live performances

Curriculum

ALBERGHINI CRISTIANO, gets the Organ and Organ composition diploma at the Conservatorio “G. Frescobaldi” in Ferrara in 1998; in 2000 he gets the Choir Music and Choir conduction diploma, then in 2002 he gets the composition diploma at the Conservatorio “G.B. Martini” in Bologna.

In 1993 he takes part in a master class on the interpretation of the Northern Germany Organ repertoire with Master Harald Vogel; in 2000 he takes part in a master class for bassoonists and composers with master Pascal Gallois.

In 2001 he is the winner of the “Fondazione Carlo Carolina Bianca e Santina Zucchelli” scholarship with his composition “Flood” and in 2002 he wins the prize “Felice e Luigi Magone” with his composition “Il Canto Delle Pazze” (“The Mad Women Singing”).

He takes part in various organ festivals among which “Percorsi d’Organo nella città di Ferrara” organized by the association Musicartes.

He enters upon an artistic collaboration with percussionist Andrea Centazzo as a keyboard programmer in the Tour in the United States with a multimedia concert for percussions and electronic keyboards called “Anmin Soundsleep”, freely inspired by the homonymous literary work written by the Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto. He is later requested as a keyboard player for the recording of the soundtrack of the ballet “Il Cuore di Cera” (“The Wax Heart”) the music of which draws inspiration from the works of the painter Alberto Martini (1876-1954).
His collaboration continues as a pianist, as a keyboard player and as an assistant conductor in the multimedia operas Memento (Udine, 2000) and Simultas (Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 2001).

He composes and performs his own “background” music in many cinema reviews and festivals for authorial silent films, in art exhibitions, in different theatrical performances.

In 2004 he composes and orchestrates the performance “No(t)te di Natale”, collaborating with the composer and stage-manager Claudio Mattioli, and with the pianist Denis Biancucci. This work has later been recorded by the Szeged Orchestra (Hungary) and published by the musical and record company “San Paolo”, Italy.

In 2005 he gets a special diploma released by the Foundation “Irina Arkhipova” of the Moscow state, Russia for the music composed and orchestrated at the Culture Festival between the two Ministries of foreign Affairs of Italy and Russia.

In the same year he collaborates both as a pianist and as a conductor with the theatre company “Oblivion”, which since some years has started an artistical collaboration together with the comic actors “Gemelli Ruggeri”.

In 2006 he composes many pieces for the didactic projects “Le Tracce dell'Arte” and “La Linea Racconta” for the Municipality of Cento and performed in the Modern Art Gallery in the same town.

He composes the musical soundtrack for the children's show “THE THREE GOLDEN HAIRS”, after a Grimm Brothers' Tale, and represented in the theatre season 2006-'07; “THE SEARCH FOR THE DISAPPEARED PRINCESS”, theatre season 2007-'08 and “WHEN A LINO KNOCKED AT THE DOOR”, the latter promoted by the 'Accademia Perduta' in Ravenna for the Season 2007-2008.

Some of his pieces have been chosen by the director Roberto Quagliano for the Kamel Film cinema productions in Bologna for the project called “Get Out”, “L'Alba di Luca”, “I fratelli d'Italia”.

He composed the soundtrack of the short film “Nomos” on the invitation of the italian director Giovanni Modaffari. The film got to the finals at the third edition of “Pentedattilo Film Festival” in 2008.

He collaborates with Federico Bellone and Simone Manfredini, respectively the acting and music directors of the “Compagnia della Rancia” for auditions and staging of theatre performances.
The performance “Hollywood Dreams” was awarded a prize on 20th September 2008 in GARDALAND (a famous amusement park in the north of Italy) at the eighth edition of Parksmania Awards, that is considered the “Oscars of the amusement parks”. The prize has been awarded since 2000 by Parksmania to the parks which have distinguished themselves in the respective fields in the Italian and European context.

Between May and June 2009 he arranged and orchestrated the orchestral version of the show 'Francis, the man of God' by Claudio Mattioli and lyrics by Barbara Zanasi. Music by Claudio Mattioli, Denis Biacucci and Cristiano Alberghini were registered with the symphonic orchestra of Szeged in Hungary in June 2009 under the direction of Gyüdi Sandor.

On October 19, 2009 the show was performed in the theater of Szeged with this symphony orchestra conducted by Gyüdi Sandor.

Dal 2009 collabora con Bear & Kaiser come compositore, arrangiatore ed orchestratore.