Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years. Born in 1951, he grew up in Rye, NY, and Munich. He studied piano with Kyriena Siloti, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, studying composition with William Albright and Jack Beeson. He performs each October at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, each July at Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato, and appears regularly at major film festivals including New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Telluride, and TriBeCa. He is the resident pianist for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, BAM and the Museum of Moving Image, and has appeared at other film repertory house and archives include the Pacific Film Archives’ Asian Film Festival, the Thalia Theater, Symphony Space, Harvard Film Archives, the National Gallery, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Berlin Filmmuseum, MASS MoCA, and The Film Forum.