MORRICONE YOUTH was formed in 1999 with a mission statement to compose, re-interpret, perform and/or record “music written for the moving image” (film/tv soundtracks, library music, etc.) in all incarnations – from playing shows dedicated to specific composers/film genres with projections, to live scoring films in theaters. Over the years, they have released albums, toured and had residencies at Knitting Factory, CBGB, Tonic and, most recently, Nitehawk Cinema. Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned them to write an original score to Hitchcock’s THE LODGER which was performed to a sold out audience on Halloween 2013. Philadelphia Museum of Art also commissioned a multi-media piece for its Marcel Duchamp exhibit in 2012, and MassMoCA chose the band this summer for its annual outdoor film screening to live score for MAD MAX.