Biography:

Federico Savina ( Turin , June 9 , 1935 – Rome , May 10 , 2023 ) was an Italian teacher , sound engineer and musician .

In 1984 , he received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Sound for the film La traviata directed by Franco Zeffirelli . ^[1]

Brother of the famous soundtrack composer and conductor Carlo Savina , after attending the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice , he began his activity in the field of sound recording in the early 1960s. ^[2] Researcher and creator of the first generators and electronic musical instruments for the Cenacolo Musicale in Rome , directed by Franco Evangelisti , he was a collaborator of the Gruppo di Nuovo Consonanza . He entered the specific film recording sector at Fonolux in Rome, under the direction of Paolo Ketoff. ^[3] He continued for 17 years at the International Recording Film Recording Studio in Rome ^[4] and then transferred his activity as a freelance sound engineer for Music and Film to the Davout Studios in Paris ^[5] and CTS Wembley in London , ^[6] collaborating on several of three hundred films directed by the directors Federico Fellini , Michelangelo Antonioni , Luchino Visconti , Dario Argento , Joseph Losey and with the composers Alessandro Cicognini , Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone , Jerry Goldsmith , Leonard Bernstein . ^[6] He collaborated in the construction of recording studios. He took care of the mixing of Dolby soundtracks in Rome , Milan and in many other music studios operating in the film sector. ^[7] For more than twenty years, he was a consultant to Dolby Laboratories for the recording of analog and digital motion picture soundtracks. Lecturer in the Sound Sector ^[8] at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome , he was part of the working groupBertolucci-Storaro-Cinecittà International and Philips Morris for the restoration of soundtracks, publishing several articles and reports on the new sound formats and the restoration of film soundtracks. ^[9] He collaborated in courses and seminars with the main Italian and foreign university institutions. ^[10]

He was a member of the honorary committee and of the commission of important reviews dedicated to the great film composers of the past such as the “Festival Angelo Francesco Lavagnino ” , ^[11] the “ Alessandro Cicognini Festival ” , ^[12] the “ Alessandro Cicognini International Award ” ^{[ 13]} , and teacher of numerous seminars and masterclasses on film music. ^[14]

In 2014 he received the prestigious SMPTE Award, in Los Angeles ^[15] from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

He was the creator, together with the Experimental Cinematography Center of Rome , of the Carlo Savina Award ^[12] dedicated to the memory of his brother, which is held every year in collaboration with the Spello Film Festival.

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