Fabio Grandinetti

Fabio Grandinetti (b. 1991, Bolzano, Italy) is a composer, sound designer and sound engineer. He studied new technologies and languages of music at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano. Since 2010 he has worked as a sound engineer in the theatres of South Tyrol, mostly for dance, and he composes contemporary music for dance schools, including La Quinta Dance. In 2017 he was audio engineer at the Conservatory, recording the second edition of its PianoFestival, and in 2018 he held a scholarship for the audio and video production of its orchestral concerts. He is vice president of the association Bolzano Underground and organises Playground, an event for street arts and hip hop in the region.

His acousmatic and film work has been recognised several times: third prize in electroacoustic composition at the 12th MIUR National Art Prize (2017), the RAI Alto Adige BZ48h award for the music and sound design of the short film Shoganai (2018), a selection at the Diffrazioni Multimedia Festival in Florence and the award for best soundtrack and short film at Restl Fest in Belgrade for Poslednji putnik (2019), and first prize for the jingle of the 34th Bolzano Film Festival (2020).