COMPOSERS

Emanuele Matte is an Italian DJ and producer who has been actively involved in the clubbing scene since the early nineties. With almost two decades of experience since his first vinyl release in 1994, he remains deeply passionate about music, continuously honing his unique techno sound.

Throughout his long career, Emanuele has garnered immense support from prominent DJs on the international stage, releasing his tracks on numerous labels. This success has enabled him to travel the world with his enthralling DJ performances, a journey that began in the late nineties. However, in recent times, he has shifted his focus towards creating soundtracks for movies and TV series.

One of his notable accomplishments in this new venture was composing the music for the documentary “Discoruin ” for Sonne / Film K_plus.

 This docu-film received acclaim from critics, marking Emanuele’s successful foray into the realm of composition.

Apart from his musical pursuits, Emanuele is an avid technology enthusiast. In 2017, he ventured into the Crypto scene, exploring the world of digital currencies. Fuelled by his passion for cutting-edge technologies, he also ventured into the realm of musical NFTs, creating a collection that showcases his artistic expression.

He studies clarinet and composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano.

He studies clarinet with Antony Pay, Richard Stoltzman, Ciro Scarponi and composition with Danilo Lorenzini, Salvatore Sciarrino and Alessandro Solbiati.

He played a lots of contemporary music and premieres of several young composers (Botter, Grotzinger, Casale, Carcano, Torres, Belcastro, Buccino and many moore) with Ensemble Risognanze, European Music Project Ulm, Sonata Islands, TIMET meta-composing research laboratory, LaRis.

Between the 1999 and 2002 his music had premiere in Arena di Verona, Milano Classica, Fontana Mix in Bologna, Filmharmony Orchestra Wroclav.

From 2002 he leaves the accademical contemporary music and enjoy in several italian band of alternative rock and underground culture (Mariposa, Calibro 35, The Winstons).

In particulary, Calibro 35 is a crime-funk band that played in several international festival and radio shows (SBSW in Austin, KCWR in Los Angeles, Nublu Jazz Fest San Paolo, Nublu Jaz Fest Istanbul, opening Muse “The Resistence” tour, Holy Groove Fest Lousanne, “The Craig Charles funk and soul show” on BBC in Manchester, Cinema Nova in Bruxelles, 100’s club in London, opening act of Sharon Jones and Dubkings…) and sample are used by hip-hop legendary producer Dr. Dre and the famous mc Jay-Z.

EG is one of the most popular orchestral and ensemble arranger in Italy and he have made important collaborations with Iggy Pop, Mike Patton (from Faith No More), Muse, Damo Suzuki (ex-Can), John Parish, Daniel Johnston, Steve Wynn (ex-Dream Syndicate), Daevid Allen (Gong), Haldous Harding ,Vinicio Capossela, Morgan, Dente, Baustelle, Afterhours, Nada Malanima, Daniele Silvestri and he have release about 250 studio albums in 20 years.

Is in Mike Patton’s “Mondo Cane” band, a project around the italian ’60 songwriting.

With John Parish, Mick Harvey, Alain Johannes and many other musicians, is a permanent member of the PJ Harvey’s “The Hope Six Demolition Project” band and he had recording the album at Somerset House (London) in january 2015 with the Grammy Awards producer Mark “Flood” Ellis. 

“UPm – Unità di produzione Musicale” is a documentary about a social experiment with 72 musicians that made music in a factory with the same rules of an assembly line. EG is author with the photographer Sergio Giusti and the directors team Enece Film. The premiere was at Biografilm Festival 2015 and In-Edit 2015 Barcellona.

With the project Der Maurer and the ensemble Esecutori di Metallo su Carta makes contemporary music in non-orthodox and extreme locations like installations and rock venue.

With the musician Sebastiano De Gennaro and the musicologist Francesco Fusaro and the conductor Marcello Corti founded the 19’40” (www.19m40s.com) a subscription-based recording series about release of (anti)classical and contemporary album: the first release “Esecutori di Metallo su Carta: Progetto Generativo” was transcriptions for ensemble of massive italian instrumental band like Zu, Zeus!, Morkobot, Hobocombo and many more. The last release (19m40s_22) is Black Classical Music, afro-descendant classical music composers from 17th century to 20th century.

In spring 2017 it will be published the first book of short sci-fi and unexpected novels. His blog as a writer (and not musician) is www.per-iscritto.com. 

He composed soundtracks for the movies “Still Out Of My League” and “Forever Out Of My League” (Eagle Pictures/Netflix), “Blanca” two seasons series (RAI/LuxVide) and songs for “Diabolik chi sei?” (Mompracem) with Calibro 35, “Onoda: 10,000 Nights In The Jungle” (Bathysphere) and more.

He play clarinets, flutes, saxophones, percussions and keyboards.

He is currently considered one of the most influential composers and pianists in the Italian music scene. His style is the result of a long experience composing for the theatre, advertising (for brands such as Alitalia, Bulgari and New Holland) and for the cinema.
His music is always inspired by film and visual media, whether that is celebrating Pasolini, writing a complete soundtrack for “Fight For Freedom”, a recent film about Muhammad Ali, or “To duration – A tribute to Peter Handke” in 2017; and more creating the original soundtracks for “Hitler versus Picasso and The Others: The Nazi Obsession for Art and Van Gogh, of wheat fields and clouded skies”, two art movies released in April and May 2018 in over than 50 countries. In the latest soundtrack composed for “The Water Lilies by Monet, The Magic of Water and Light” the score mixes electronic and symphonic elements, making the female voice a metaphor for water lilies. At the beginning of 2019 Sony Masterworks published worldwide the three related albums from the movies soundtracks composed for great art at cinema.
Besides to the soundtracks, he released 1 live album and 5 studio albums: the latest is “Nocturne” (Sony Music) .

Hania Rani is an award-winning pianist, composer and singer. Her debut album “Esja”, a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces on Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim in 2019, earning Rani four prestigious Fryderyk Awards including “Best Debut Album”, “Best Alternative Album” and “Best New Arrangement”, in recognition from the Polish music industries very own Grammys. In the same year, Rani became the “Discovery of the Year 2019” in the Empik Bestseller Awards whilst also earning the distinguished Sanki Award for the “New Face of Polish Music”.

Her follow-up sophomore album, the expansive, cinematic, “Home”, was released in 2020 on Gondwana Records and finds Rani expanding her palate: adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being accompanied by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. The album earned Rani another notable accolade of ‘Best Composer’, a further acknowledgement from Fryderyk and with Rough Trade including it in their essential “Albums of the Year”.

In 2021, Hania signed her publishing rights to Wise Music Group, where her music is represented next to names like Olafur Arnalds, Dustin O’Halloran, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Ludovico Einaudi. That year also brought “Music for Film and Theatre” a personal selection of recent compositions for film, theatre and other projects released on Gondwana Records.

In 2022 Hania released the EP Live From Studio S2, which includes rearrangements of her favourite songs (‘Hawaii Oslo’ , ‘Glass’ , ‘Leaving’ , ‘Buka’).

Rani also composed music for a movie “xAbo” directed by A. Potoczek and for the play “Nora” directed by Michał Zdunik. Her song “Eden’” was used as the soundtrack to the short movie by Małgorzata
Szumowska for Miu Miu’s movie cycle “Women’s Tales“. Hania and Dobrawa’s “Whale Song” was used
in a Louis Vuitton spot and multiple Hania’s tracks were placed in a Netflix series “Last Chance U:
Basketball”. Hania also composed music for the documentary movie “Venice: Infinitely Avantgarde”. The soundtrack was released in 2022 by Sony Music’s XXIM Recrods.

Composer, music producer, writer of film soundtracks, TV dramas, songs, TV theme music, ads and commercials, Marchitelli’s experience ranges from auteur cinema to cult comedy programmes such as “Avanzi”, “Tunnel”, “the Pippo Kennedy Show” and “L’ottavo nano”. From 2001 to 2006 he was music director of the Ambra Jovinelli Theatre in Rome. For the cinema he has composed soundtracks for films by Carlo Verdone (“Sono pazzo di Iris Blond”, “Ma che colpa abbiamo noi”, “Benedetta follia”), Giuseppe Piccioni (“Il grande Blek”), Francesco Bruni (“Noi 4”), Maurizio Sciarra (“Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli”), Renato De Maria, Cinzia Th Torrini and Riccardo Milani (“Piano, solo”). During his career he has received 12 nominations (David di Donatello, Nastro d’Argento, Golden Globe) and won 2 awards. He composed the music for Paolo Sorrentino’s 2014 Oscar winning best foreign film “La grande bellezza” and for his next film, “Loro”. Again for Paolo Sorrentino he also composed the original soundtrack for the television series “The Young Pope” and for its sequel, “The New Pope”.

Petersburg State Conservatory and was awarded 5 scholarships by the Russian Ministry of Culture. He has given concerts in the most important concert halls in Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria and Georgia. In 2018 he made his debut at the legendary Musikverrein in Vienna (Musikverein), at the Moscow House (Riga, Latvia), in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He has won International and Russian competitions, such as the St. Petersburg Chopin Competition and the Glinka Competition in Moscow. He was also nominated best violinist in international competitions such as the Rachmaninoff Competition, the Elena Obraztsova Competition, the Zara Dolukhanova and the José Carreras Grand Prix. He became the face representing the Phyt Company of St. Petersburg. He has released 2 solo albums and is currently resident concert pianist for the Great and Small Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In March 2019, he signed a contract with Italian production company Nexo Digital.

Maximilien Zaganelli is a multi-instrumentalist and composer born in Paris, where he began studying  piano at an early age.
Initially influenced by artists such as Massive Attack, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, he became passionate about the world of film scoring inspired by the dreamlike atmospheres of Badalamenti, Vangelis and the classical style of Morricone. Active since the 2000s with his trip-hop/electronica project “NineYears”, he frequently plays in Italy as well as in the US, where he also collaborates with various sync libraries. Since 2019 he has been writing and publishing music for art documentaries worldwide, with sounds ranging from new classic to ambient and experimental electronics.

Music has always been at home in Marco Mirk’s family: his father played bass and had a collection of rock vinyls that Marco consumed as a child. His grandmother was an excellent classical music pianist and Marco studied piano with her from 7 to 13 years, before he began playing the drums as a self-taught. At an old age (31 years) he obtained, after 6 years of studies, the professional diploma in pop-rock drums at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome. At that time he already had played hundreds of concerts all over Europe, USA and Brazil, by being part of a couple of punk bands with which he literally cut his teeth on the road. In the last 10 years he has played with many independent songwriters and with one in particular, Filippo dr. Panìco, has ground about 200 dates in every corner of Italy, carrying around the “Tour of the living rooms” format in which the two literally played at people’s homes, also cooking dinner every night before the show, for an incredibly human and formative experience.

Marco Mirk has been composing and producing the soundtracks of the multimedia productions of Laboratoriorosso for about 5 years.