Giovanni Rotondo

Giovanni Rotondo is a London based composer. He has extensive experience working on feature films, TV series an documentaries. He prioritizes maximizing a collaborative environment while crafting subtly multi-layered scores. His love for sharing knowledge and strong sense of community resulted in creating the industry-leading website Film Scoring Tips of which he is currently editor in chief. After completing a bachelor degree in music composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he spent a year in Los Angeles to work on his skills. During that time he worked on several feature films, including Spider-man 3. After that, Giovanni worked as an orchestrator on many projects for film and television. Among them was the critically acclaimed Calvary. While in Italy he was appointed curator of the film scoring course at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Italian national school of cinema. Giovanni was in good company as lecturers included Academy Award winners Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani, Ludovic Bource and Mychael Danna. Over the years he composed music for many large form productions: he wrote the main themes for the movie Bologna 2 agosto, i giorni della collera, he scored the New Zealand film Orphans & Kingdoms, the prime-time tele-features Il Giudice Meschino and Il Confine for RAI 1 and the documentary Ilaria Alpi - L'ultimo viaggio for Rai 3. He also composed the main themes for the Canadian feature film Elijah and the Rock Creature. Recently he scored several animated films for the Great Ormond Street Hospital featuring voice performances by Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Julie Walters.