Draft:Luke Corradine

Luke Corradine is a multi-awarded composer and record producer. He has writen music for numerous films and TV programmes as well as new scores for concert performances of classic silent movies.

Early life and career
Luke Corradine, was born in Como, Italy. He studied composition with famed jazz composer Pedro Iturralde and pianist Horacio Icasto, and later with guitarist Steve Freund in Chicago.

His early work provided success under the 'Phat Gecko' moniker and featured in a number of best-selling international compilations such as Warner Brothers’ Now Dance 2004 alongside Justin Timberlake and Kylie Minogue amongst others, and Sonar Kollektiv's chill-out ‘Secret Love’ series.



Under the name Roebeck, Corradine starts blending electronics with different acoustic folk instruments such as the bandurria, banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, piano and acoustic guitar, resulting in the album Hurricanes on Venus, performed and produced by Corradine in collaboration with Marcus Thomas (Tzant) and Robert Owens. Three singles originated from this period appearing in over forty compilations worldwide.

Film Scoring
In collaboration with celebrated Nigerian film director Obi Emelonye, Corradine receives an Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards for the music for the film ‘Last Flight to Abuja’ and later, in 2012, an African Movie Academy Awards for his music work in the film Onye Ozi, the first internationally acclaimed film in Igbo language. Both scores are the result of Corradine’s interest for African folk music, and thus rely heavily on traditional instruments such as the Balafon, the Kalimba and Batá for most of the thematic material.



From the year 2014 Corradine scores several independent films in the UK and USA, notably: 'Hard Time Bus' (winner Best Film - Hollywood Black Film Festival); British thrillers 'Welcome To Curiosity' (featuring Richard Blackwood); Two Days in the Smoke (featuring Alan Ford); and soundtrack music to Vanessa Parise' ‘Status: Unknown’. Then in 2016, Corradine writes the score for Polish-American film 'No Panic With a Hint of Hysteria' (Stephen Baldwin, Zbigniew Zamachowski), a fast paced black comedy described by some critics as Baldwin's best performance to date. The score is a tribute to swing jazz and blues music of the 30s and 40s.

Television
For television, Corradine has composed music for Lego; The Samaritans ; The European Fine Art Fair; and Amnesty International. For ITV and BAFTA-winning director Simon Dinsell, Corradine has contributed for three consecutive years music to ‘Stand Up to Cancer’, a celebrated British documentary series featuring Keira Knightley, Ronan Keating and Stephen Mangan.

In 2017 Corradine composed the music for the opening of YiHaus, the world's largest commercial shopping village in Shanghai, China. The composition, a mere five minute long, was played to visitors over a week and through a cutting-edge 30-channel surround sound system. This will follow, in 2022, with the creation of the sound design for the awarded documentary ‘The Beatles and India’ for director Ajoy Bose.

Silent film scoring
As a direct result of Corradine's life experience in Ukraine, the Spanish Film Institute (Filmoteca Española) commissioned him a new score in 2022, for the classic silent film ‘The Night Coachman’ (Georgi Tasin, 1929) premiered in Madrid that year at the famed Cine Doré and as part of the festival Semana del Cine Ucraniano. This is followed by a commission from the The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for a new orchestral score for the classic film ‘Earth’ (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930). The score is premiered at the Ted Mann Theatre of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, in July 2023, under the direction and supervision of the composer, to positive reviews. The score will later premiere in Canada, as part of the Toronto Film Festival program celebrating the Ukrainian independence day.



Corradine's interest in romantic piano music and in Ukrainian history culminates in the composition of a third score for silent film ‘Bread’ (Shpykovskyi, 1930), a movie considered lost for many decades, and commissioned by the Festival Internacional Alborada Clásica. The score is premiered in Granada, Spain in February 2024 and performed by Australian pianist Duncan Guifford.