Antonio Di Iorio is a music composer for Film, any kind of media and classical concerts. He is an orchestrator, conductor and pianist as well.
Los Angeles based, besides being busy on his projects and awarded movies like Wings Over Washington, Il Viaggio, Jacks, Life In Between, Spirito Eroico (for the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010) and others, Di Iorio heavily worked alongside film composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) as an additional composer and executive senior assistant for 4 years in Los Angeles.
His music can be massively heard in movies like:
- Godzilla vs Kong (Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros) by Adam Wingard;
- Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Atlas Entertainment and HBO Max) by Zack Snyder (uncredited)
- Sonic The Hedgehog (Paramount Pictures) by Jeff Fowler;
- Terminator: Dark Fate (20th Century Fox, Skydance Media, Paramount Pictures, Tencent Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment) by Tim Miller and James Cameron;
- Mortal Engines (MRC/Universal Pictures) by Peter Jackson;
- Alita: Battle Angel (Twentieth Century Fox) by Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron;
- Tomb Raider (Warner Bros./GK Films) by Roar Uthaug;
- The Dark Tower (Sony/Columbia Picture) by Nikolaj Arcel and Ron Howard;
- Distance Between Dreams (Red Bull).
He recently began collaborating as an additional composer for renowned Hollywood composer Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, Krypton, Stargirl).
His music can be heard in:
The Lost City (Paramount Pictures) by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee,
and others that are going to be released soon (more updates soon).
Professional Training
Born in Campobasso, Italy, he graduated at the Conservatory “Lorenzo Perosi” in Campobasso in Piano (2005) and Composition (2007) with top grades with honours, studying with Piero Niro and also with Luca Salvatori, orchestrator of film music composer Andrea Guerra.
He then obtained the Master Degree in the two-year specialization in Composition (2010) with top grades with honours, and the Degree in Orchestral Conducting with top grades with honours.
In September 2011 he moved to the USA to attend the one year Master Of Music In Film Composition – Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, Washington, at the “Seattle Film Institute”, getting the Master Degree with top grades. Among teachers, he studied with the two-time “Emmy Award” winning Hummie Mann, composer of several film music scores and orchestrator and conductor working alongside many important film composers in Hollywood.
While he was in Seattle, Di Iorio composed music for various movies and a documentary, recording and conducting by himself in different recording studios: Spacecraft Escape, Marilyn’s Dress, Cane and many others.
Career
Before that, he has composed music for many films, short films and others like I Quattro Aspiranti, the 3D movie Code Guardian, the short film Primo Girone. He composed music for the American film Bully, the American documentary With Paper Hands, the future movie Mia and others.
Di Iorio approached music at five years old, starting to study piano at seven years old and composing at ten. His compositions began to be performed in live concerts soon in many Italian and European cities: Tempo Di Sonat, Dittico Per Quintetto, De Venefico, Concertante Op. 2 for 4 Clarinets and Orchestra, Sestetto, Danza Fantasia also as conductor, Trio Irrequieto, Invenzione Scherzosa, Cantus Aviae Angelae also as conductor, La Marcia Dei Troll, Journey also as conductor, 6 Bagatelle in Amsterdam also as conductor, Sky Adventure, Puer Natus also as conductor, Dante’s Nightmare in Udine, Sparks Battle, Dante In Paradiso, Celebrazioni – Overture and Galaxy Endeavor all in Brescia, also as conductor. Since 2009, for 2 years he got many concerts with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Campobasso Conservatory, performing famous classical works and his compositions Mattino D’Estate, Vitalità, Rapsodia Sinfonica and For Children.
Since 2005 he has co-worked with Composer and Orchestra Conductor Flavio Emilio Scogna (who was the personal collaborator of Luciano Berio). He made the music reconstruction of Serenata Per Un Satellite by Bruno Maderna, an elaboration and arrangement (ordered by ACLI) for Voice and String Orchestra of Quanto T’Ho Amato, original by Nicola Piovani, performed in Rome by The Nova Amadeus Orchestra, broadcasted live in World Vision by CTV and Radio Vaticana (2005), and some recordings like Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and The Viola In My Life by Morton Feldman.
Since 2005 he has worked as orchestrator, arranger and conductor with Silvio Amato, a TV, classical and theatrical music composer in Milan. Di Iorio made the orchestration of Faraway Flares (Bagliori Lontani), performed and recorded by the Monesis Ensemble in Rome (2005). Then he made the orchestrations for orchestra of three Ballets (each one in 2 Acts and 2 hours long), performed in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Snow White (2005), recorded by The Timisoara National Orchestra, in Romania, conducted by Scogna; Peter Pan (2006), conducted by Di Iorio and Scogna; Beauty And The Beast (2007), arranged, orchestrated and conducted by Di Iorio. He orchestrated and revised also Amato’s Il Principe Felice, recorded by the Ensemble Strumentale Scaligero, from La Scala in Milan, for La Feltrinelli and Curci and performed in Russia on All works released on CD as well.
Di Iorio attends also several classical and film music competitions. In 2008 he was selected in the competition “Quartetto Uscita Firenze Sud”, winning two live performances with his I Colori Della Toscana. He got the 2nd prize at “Premio Rustichelli” 2008 in Carpi (Modena), with the music for the short film Il Signor B. Admitted at the final of the competition “Nascimbene Award 2008” with his music for Il Processo Di Verona. He got the 2nd prize at the music competition “Mater Hominis” with his Oratorio Via Matris, in Isernia, 2009. Moreover, in the same year, Di Iorio won the scholarship to Amsterdam, where on October 6th, 2009 he conducted his Tre Bagatelle.
His composition Danza Fantasia has been recorded for the VCM Records label, recorded in the VDM Studio in Rome in September 2007, performed by the Monesis Ensemble conducted by Scogna. In this CD, called Crossroads, there are pieces by other important contemporary Italian composers.
In 2009 he got ordered works by the Italian radio-television network Sat2000, making orchestrations and arrangements of We Are The World (for Chorus and Orchestra) and O Sole Mio (for Tenor and Orchestra), both performed on May 13th, 2009 in Israel, in the live concert on the occasion of the visit by the Pope, broadcasted worldwide by Sat2000.
In December 2009 Di Iorio won the music composers competition “To Vancouver with your Music”, made by Italian TV channel SKY TV Italy, with his composition Spirito Eroico. Around twenty pieces were recorded with the Orchestra Verdi Of Milan. From February 12th, 2010 his music score was broadcasted by TV SKY in all the TV shows regarding the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010.
On November 29th, 2010 he won the Best Award at the International Composer Competition “Valentino Bucchi” 33rd Edition in Rome, with the composition Eja Mater for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra.
From 2010 he signed an agreement with Soundfile Production, a Music Company for TV, cinema etc. in Los Angeles. Thirteen of his pieces have been selected to be used in productions for movies, TV, commercials and others in the USA.
In March 2011 he completed musical works ordered by network TV SKY for TV shows series and related commercials about 150 Years of Italian National Unity, on-air during the Italian national festivity days.
In the same year, he arranged Playing Love from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack “The Legend Of The Pianist On The Ocean”, recorded on CD “Duende” in Naples.
He was engaged in 2013 by Fidelity Wave Production Music, a Musical Society for TV, cinema etc. based in Los Angeles. Twelve of his pieces have been chosen to be used in various productions for TV, movies, and more in the USA.
In 2013 he signed a contract of engagement with Italian TV Mediaset RTI, one of the major national TV. They selected eight of his compositions to be used and broadcasted in Italian TV shows, commercials, opening titles and other uses. His composition Galaxy Endeavor has been selected to be used for the TV campaign Etnaland.
In September 2013 he was engaged by Laguna Films, LLC in Hollywood for composing the music for the movie Past Due! with actor Eric Roberts.
In the same period, he completed the music score for the American movie Life In Between and other projects.
On August 14th Di Iorio obtained the 2nd prize at the prestigious “Transatlantyk Film Music Competition” in Poznan, Poland. A great jury chaired by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek and composed of professionals from Hollywood (John Ottman, Richard Gladstein, Michael Price, Andy Hill, Michael P. Aust) evaluated 11 finalists selected for the Finale from 220 submissions.
He was awarded thanks to his two film music scores Invasions for 3 Mezzosoprano and Orchestra (voice by Marianna Petrecca) and In Between Worlds for Female Ethnic Voice and Orchestra (voice by Alda Caiello), composed for the same films.
On May 30th, 2015, Di Iorio won the 1st Prize at the very prestigious Composers Competition “FMF Young Talent Awards” 2015 in Krakow, Poland during the “Film Music Festival”, with the orchestral composition Under Assault.
A great and international jury headed by Professor Daniel Carlin, director of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Programme at the University of Southern California and composed of professionals from Hollywood such as Michael Todd (ASCAP Senior Director of Film & TV Music), Trevor Morris (film composer), Robert Townson (executive producer and head of Varèse Sarabande record label), Doreen Ringer Ross (VP, Film/TV Relations for BMI), Richard Guérin (General Manager for Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony) and from Poland such as Robert Piaskowski (FMF Artistic Director) and Pawe? Pawlik (radio journalist and Program Deputy Director of RMF Classic), evaluated 26 finalists qualified for the Final from nearly 100 submissions from 22 countries.
Di Iorio received his winning award during the International TV Series Gala at the Tauron Arena, in front of an audience of TV composers, Hollywood guests and around 12,000 viewers gathered at the concert, who heard the winning suite composed for a fragment of an episode of the cult series “The Borgias”. Performance by La Sinfonietta Orchestra (100 musicians) conducted by Diego Navarro.
The award was presented by Izabela Helbin, director of the Krakow Festival Office, and Robert Piaskowski, FMF artistic director.
The news and the article regarding the winning can be read on the Official Web-Site of the Event of the Film Music Festival.
