ABOUT Dario
Dario is composer, producer, song-writer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He has a certificate in Film Scoring at UCLA Extension in Los Angeles, a bachelor degree in “Music Sciences and Technologies” at Università degli Studi di Milano, and earned several diplomas in Arrangement, Theory, and Guitar Performance from many prestigious classical and modern music academies in Milano, such as the Conservatory “G. Verdi”, CPM and NAM.
After many years of touring across Europe, the US and Asia, Dario started writing and producing music for visual media. His work has ranged from writing and performing the theme for Ubisoft’s best selling video game ‘Rocksmith’, to composing the theme songs for Ambie-nominated podcasts “Bunga Bunga” and “Do No Harm” (Wondery), as well as scoring a variety of independent films, documentaries, and television shows.
Dario has scored the feature films ‘Sharkskin’ (2015), ‘Scrambled’ (2024), ‘It Hits You When You Know It’ (2020), and ‘The Box’ (2024), as well as Hulu Original documentary ‘We Live Here: The Midwest’ (2023) and feature documentary ‘A Long Hard Streak’ (2024) executive produced by Sean Penn. He also co-wrote and produced the song “Zero Gravity” for the feature documentary ‘Zero Gravity’ (2021), performed by artist Willow Stephens.
Dario has worked on a variety of projects like composing and producing music for the promotional campaigns of hit TV shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Masked Singer, Bob’s Burgers, Duncanville, and scoring the Main Title sequences for TV shows like ‘Called To The Wild’ (National Geographic, 2021), ‘Man With A Van’ (Discovery ID, 2020), ‘Mördermann’ (Filmpool, 2020), ‘Top Elf’ (Nickelodeon, 2019-20), and ‘The Healer’ (A&E, 2017).
In August 2022 Dario released the EP “Anomalie” for which he received two nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for his compositions “One of a Kind” and “Two Under”. “Anomalie” is an experimental cinematic album where Dario explores and pushes the boundaries of sound and music: a unique blend of organic vocabulary mixed with elements borrowed from the syntaxes of world, cinematic, and electronic music.
Dario’s abilities as a composer/music producer and a strong collaborator led him to become the founder and creative director of Evoq Music (www.EvoqMusic.com), a music production company specialized in creating music for media for clients such as National Geographic, CBS, FOX, NBC, CBBC, Hulu, Netflix, Wondery, Olive Garden, and much more.
Dario is a voting member of the Television Academy Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and of The Society of Composers & Lyricists.
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS:
Dario has written music for Ubisoft, National Geographic, FOX, FOX Sports, Netflix, CBS, Hulu, Discovery Channel, A&E Networks, Wondery Media, MTV, Harley-Davidson, Olive Garden, Under Armour, Carl’s Jr, and many others.
Dario has toured internationally and opened for artists such as: The Scorpions, Chad Smith, Jack White and The Raconteurs, Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, The Warrant, Howie Day, David Cook, Anna Nalick, Tiffany, Lee Dewyze, John Waite, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Fratelli La Bionda.
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa ―