Simone Giacomini

 Musician and composer.

He spent his adolescence in Rome, studying the work of Skriabin, Janacek, Faure’ and Satie while playing guitar in some post-punk bands and listening to anything was available around him especially electronic music.

He studied piano in different stages of his life and finally got a degree in composition for movie soundtrack at the Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna.

In 2005 he moved to Netherlands and since then he started to collaborate with choreographer Gabriella Maiorino, creating music for most of her pieces and working partially also as dramaturge.

In Holland he also started to collaborate with different forms of art:  movies, installations, theater and particularly contemporary dance.

In 2011 he won a prize as “Best Soundtrack” at the Documenta Film Festival for the documentary “(R)esistenza”. 

www.simonegiacomini.com