The Italian composer and orchestra conductor, Antonio Coppola, will be in Helsinki next week. He will accompany on the piano the screening of two major films in the history of Finnish cinema.
Victor Sjostrom’s ‘The Wind’ (1928) will be the first film screened on Monday 15 May at Cinema Orion. It will be followed by a lecture entitled “Music in Cinema”, in which Coppola will focus on the relationship between these two worlds, offering live examples. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s film “The Last Laughter” (1924) will be screened on Wednesday, 17 May
The initiative was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Helsinki and the National Audiovisual Institute KAVI, in cooperation with Sibelius Academy and the Aalto University. Born in Rome in 1956, Antonio Coppola is a composer, orchestra conductor, pianist and professor of international stature. He is well known for having brought musical innovations to silent cinema during his 40-year-long professional career.
