BIO

Giovanni Lodigiani

Giovanni began studying guitar at the age of 8. By the age of 14 he was studying composition, theory and counterpoint at the Conservatory of Alessandria with Mauro Scagliotti, plus attending classes in composition given by Angelo Gilardino, a pupil of Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco. He graduated with honors in 1991. Following that, he received a second degree from the Conservatory of Madrid and won first prize in the N.P. Zamboni National Guitar Competition.

Giovanni began his professional career by performing 200 concerts around Europe playing classical and modern music. In the meantime, during1992, Lodigiani recorded a CD of classic guitar entitled Recital Per Chitarra featuring music of Bach, Villa-Lobos, Britten and Gilardino. From 1994 to 1998 he composed and recorded 4 CD’s of instumental music for the Italian label DNA: Sky, Naturalia, The Gift Of Life, and The Blue Wonder. During this time he was featured in several articles appearing in the prestigeous European magazine, “New Age & New Sounds.”

In the 1990’s, in addition to his successes as a performing musician, he had composed film and TV music for RAI and Mediaset television programs like Marco Polo, Overland, and A Casa Di. At the same he was also composing score music for music libraries and publishers based in Dallas, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Japan.

In 1994 he created Sky Music Studio, a music studio designed for film and TV music. He was then employed as a composer in the music department at Machiavelli International in Turin where he became acquainted with the publisher Pietro Giola. There he was given his first assignment as a composer for several series appearing on Italian National Radio, RAI, including Diabolik, Sandokan and Mata Hari. At the same time he met and become acquainted with the director Arturo Villone at RAI and Pino Tordiglione at PT Communications. Tordiglione commissioned him to score the film The Stolen Christmas in 2002. Along with director Pino Tordiglione, Lodigiani participated in the 60th Venice Screening Festival with the film The Stolen Christmas. The film won the Mediterranean Cinema Prize and then, during the Cannes Mipcom festival, was sold to 21 countries all over the world.

In 2004 he composed the score for the film Una Cosa di Mente featuring italian stars Claudia Koll and Massimo Wertmuller and for the film L'Età del Fuoco directed by Mauro Calvone. Also he composed music for the series Il Gatto Nero and Giovanna D'arco

In 2005 he composed the score for the series Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro , Se Crede Se Credi , Io Non Lo So .

In 2006 he composed Lost Land

2007 he realized instrumental/orchestral music and news packages for SONY and CNN.