The essence of my work is to bring your project to the state-of-the-art,
focusing on create the perfect music to your masterpiece.
SERVICES
- Motion Pictures music
From sketch to a complete soundtrack, with digital sampled sounds and real acoustic instruments
- Sound-a-like replacement
Original music based on client requests
- Arrangements & Remix
Adaptation and sheet music rendition in a multitude of style, from solo sheets up to orchestral parts
- Sound design& post-production
sound fXs, foley recording, sound replacement, audio restoration, dialogue editing, field recording and more
- Music consultancy
We provide supervision for artists, A&R, labels, festivals, and culture&creative productions
BIO
Paolo’s musical studies include a Bachelor of Music in Organ and Composition from the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music (Monopoli) where he studied with Domenico Tagliente; he completed two Master of Music in Organ performance and Music Education, both with honors. He also studied composition with Roberto Beccaceci and Luca Macchi, choir conducting with Filippo Maria Bressan. He attended baroque organ praxis classes with Lorenzo Ghielmi, Maurizio Croci and Michael Kapsner; roman-catholic liturgical music studies under C.E.I. (Conferenza Episcopale Italiana). He has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician in Italy, Finland, USA and Indonesia (as guest soloist with the Jakarta Symphony Orchestra for the Indonesian Catholic Synod of Bishops, and with St. Caecilia’s Choir). From 2013 he has played as organist joining the baroque ensemble of the Festival della Valle d’Itria. Since 2003 he works as teacher, performer and composer, on motion pictures, short films and commercial campaigns, mostly with mexican agency CruDeLadies. Some of his clients include: Kelloggs, Audi, Reebok, Mtv, Toyota, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production, London School of Film.
In 2014 he worked as Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Repetiteur in various degree programmes at the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences through the LLP Leonardo da Vinci Placement.
Although he prefers the counterpoint, he happily collaborates with pop artists, such as Renzo Rubino (Warner Music), Madman and Priestess (TantaRoba, Universal Music P.). On February 2018, he arranged and conducted the orchestra version of “Custodire”, by Renzo Rubino – feat. Serena Rossi, at the “Festival di Sanremo” (Rai).
Laureato in Discipline musicali – Organo ad indirizzo solistico – e in Didattica della musica con il massimo dei voti e lode; brillantemente diplomato in Organo e Composizione presso il Conservatorio N. Rota di Monopoli. Si è perfezionato in prassi esecutiva con i maestri L. Ghielmi, M. Kapsner e M. Croci; ha seguito i corsi di perfezionamento liturgico musicale organizzati dall’Ufficio Liturgico Nazionale della C.E.I. Ha svolto attività concertistica in Italia, Finlandia, Indonesia e negli USA. Dal 2008 é docente di musica presso istituti secondari di primo e secondo grado nelle province di Bergamo e Taranto. Come compositore ha realizzato colonne sonore per film, cortometraggi (tra cui “Le Projectionniste”, presentato al Court Metrage Corner del Festival di Cannes del 2013) e produzioni multimediali del Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma, Rai, e sound design per campagne pubblicitarie per marchi internazionali (tra i quali Puma, Audi, Toyota, Kellogg’s) in collaborazione con agenzie di produzione internazionali. Nel 2014 ha vinto una borsa di lavoro del Progetto Leonardo che gli ha permesso di svolgere attività di docenza in qualità di Assistente Professore di Composizione e di pianista accompagnatore presso l’Università di Scienze Applicate Metropolia di Helsinki. Collabora regolarmente con la Fondazione Paolo Grassi e dal 2011 é organista nei concerti dell’ensemble barocca del Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca, diretta dal M°. A. Greco.
