Biography
David Loris is a composer, singer, songwriter and guitarist whose versatility extends from string quartets to pop songs and film and theatre scores. Drawing inspiration from folk, pop, electronic and classical music, as well as beat poetry and the visual arts, he experiments with offbeat lyrics and sounds that challenge the listener’s assumptions about dreams and 21st century realities.
Loris charted an unconventional path to a career in music. Following a childhood in Egypt and Italy and a talent for music and mathematics, California-born Loris attended Brown University in the US and Bocconi University in Milan. Armed with a degree in economics and a masters in corporate finance, he dove into a career in finance, but quickly became disillusioned. He soon decided that his future was in music and returned to Rome to study film composition.
Fascinated by a wide variety of genres, he turned his skills to composing for orchestra and songwriting, exploring the influences he experienced in his studies and in his time living on three continents. Loris believes fervently in the power of abstraction to combine pop and classical music, exalting in jarring dissonances while finding refuge in beautiful, soaring melodies.
Since returning to live in Rome, Loris has composed for Italian television, theatre and film and recently wrote the score for the musical La Fabbrica dei Sogni. His composition Earth Day, for flute and string quartet, was unveiled in Rome in 2009, and his debut album as a singer-songwriter, Floating Away, will be released in 2010.