Taking the live strings from SCORE 313 and working with legendary harpist Skaila Kanga, Christina Zoina has created a collection of soothing, uplifting and sophisticated pieces, perfect for natural vistas, epic landscapes, and flowing energy.
Produced by: Christina Zoina and David Walter for Score Production Music
Christina Zoina is a UK based composer, arranger and producer. She studied for 4 years as a composer at the Royal Academy of Music, gaining a Bachelor of Music with 1st Class Honours. After graduating from the Academy, she worked for many years as music assistant to film composer, Anne Dudley, on a variety of musical projects including feature films, studio recordings and live music events. She is currently working as a free-lance composer. Her music covers a wide variety of genres, from orchestral film music and songs, to contemporary pop, light jazz and latin styles. As well as music composition, her experience includes producing orchestral demos, mixing and recording both orchestral and pop music, including recording, editing and tuning vocals. She also has copied music for full orchestral recording sessions and concerts.
Her music credits include BBC TV series – The Impressionists, Channel 4 documentary – Prince Eddy, The King We Never Had, Discovery Channel – Forgotten Voices, Short Film – Chain Male, and various Honda promotional videos.
Credits as music assistant to Anne Dudley include Tristan and Isolde (feature film), Black Book (feature film), Les Miserables (feature film), Whatever Love Means (ITV Drama), Trial and Retribution (ITV series), Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra (show at the Royal Albert Hall), and the BBC Electric Proms – BeeGees, Robbie Williams (concert series at Camden Roundhouse).
Skaila Kanga is a harpist and Professor Emerita of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After winning a Junior Exhibition to the Royal Academy of Music for piano, she switched to harp studies at age 17. She studied with Tina Bonifacio, Sir Thomas Beecham’s harpist in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Skaila studied piano and singing from an early age at the Royal Academy of Music and at 17 years of age began to study the harp with Tina Bonifacio and Marisa Robles, after which she quickly became established in London working with all the major orchestras. Skaila is renowned for her long extensive career in both classical and pop records, television and her amazing list of over 1000 film soundtrack credits to date, including four Harry Potter films, Shrek and all the James Bond films since the John Barry days. She has also recorded with artists like Elton John, Paul McCartney, Sting, Robbie Williams, James Galway, Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Pat Metheny, Frank Sinatra, Joan Sutherland, Pavarotti, Katherine Jenkins and many more.
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