Starting this fall 2025, we are offering private composition lessons as well as workshops to students ages 15 to adult. A minimum of two years of piano experience is required to be eligible for the courses.

Topics:

  • Composition
  • Arranging
  • Orchestration
  • Composition for Film and Visual Media
  • Conducting

About the instructor Emmanuel Fratianni:

Billboard Top-Ten composer, arranger and conductor Emmanuel Fratianni has been active in the Hollywood and international music scene for the last 30 years. Emmanuel Fratianni worked as an orchestrator and additional music composer on the multiple Emmy-nominated CBS/Paramount drama JAG, and later arranged “on-set” music performances for the TV series NCIS, collaborating with top Hollywood studio musicians. He was also part of the music team for five Academy Award ceremonies, one Emmy Awards show, and major Hollywood blockbusters, including Avatar, The Amazing Spider-Man, Troy, and the TV series Star Trek.

​As a composer, Emmanuel’s music for video games has been performed by some of the finest and most recorded orchestras in the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and the Boston Pops. His work is featured on track 1 of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2011 album release, The Greatest Video Game Music, Vol. 1. 

​As a recording artist Fratianni made his debut on the Billboard Top-Ten chart in 2008 with EMI Classics’ Video Games Live, Vol. 1 soundtrack album cementing his status in the classical/crossover orchestral world. His awards include “Soundtrack of the Year” by Play Magazine for the score to Advent Rising, one Game Audio Network Guild Award and five nominations.​

​In 2013, he served as music director for the opening gala of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles Airport (LAX), for which he composed a multimedia symphonic work in homage to the new terminal, the City of Los Angeles, and its rich multicultural population. The tone poem, titled Portale, a Gateway to the World, commissioned by Westfield Corporation, was presented to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and performed live inside the terminal.

​​​Emmanuel Fratianni is an active guest lecturer at music institutions in both the U.S. and Europe. Since 2016, he has been an adjunct professor at Ecole des Musiques Actuelles (EMA) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he teaches music composition for film and interactive media.