Forum Music Village (previously called Ortophonic Recording Studio) is a recording studio located in Rome, Italy underneath the Sacro Cuore di Maria. It was founded by Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Luis Bacalov and Piero Piccioni with the studio manager and producer Enrico De Melis in 1969. The studio has some peculiarities one of them is the ability to record a church organ directly to the studio.[1]
Founder and Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone has been using the studio to create his scores for the past forty years. The studio has hosted many directors who have worked alongside him, including Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone and Barry Levinson. The Academy Award-winning scores of "Il Postino: The Postman" by Luis Bacalov and "Life Is Beautiful" by Nicola Piovani were recorded in Studio A of Forum Music Village.[2]
The studio has played host to international artists such as Quincy Jones, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Red Hot Chili Peppers, will.i.am, Morrissey and Cher.[3]
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