Stefano D'Amico

Stefano D’Amico (born February 3, 1996, in Turin) is an Italian composer. He composes film music and neoclassical music. Early life and studies At the age of 6 he moved to Cisternino, a small town in Apulia by the sea. He started studying piano when he was 11 and only a year later he entered ‘N. Rota’ Conservatoire, in Monopoli. He continued his studies with Francesco Buccarella. Some months later he wrote his first piano composition ‘Ora che noi’, which was performed at the year-end show and much appreciated. He then wrote other melodies which made him known to other musicians. In 2011 he became the keyboardist of an Apulian band with which he started to perform live and won a competition for new groups. Stefano is trained in film music, having graduated in Film and Game Scoring at Film Scoring Academy of Europe, an academy founded by Andy Hill. In 2023, he received a scholarship from composer Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek to pursue advanced studies always at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. In 2024, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media. As he declared, James Newton Howard, Max Richter and Philip Glass have been his biggest in