Gianluca Cerchiello

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About Gianluca Cerchiello

Gianluca Cerchiello is a composer and sound designer for visual media based in Los Angeles. A Berklee College of Music graduate, his skills range from composition and orchestration to sound design & editing, music production and MIDI programming. He is also an experienced high skilled audio technologist & programmer as a Logic & Pro Tools engineer (Apple Certified Logic Pro, Avid Certified Pro Tools Expert in Post-Production/Operator in Music). Gianluca’s musicianship and technical expertise have been a passport for working with clients such as Sony/Columbia Pictures, Weinstein Company, Netflix, Rai Cinema, Disney, Lionsgate, MGA, Toonzone, Apple, NBCUniversal and Vidicom Media, earning credits as a composer, orchestrator, music producer, sound designer and a post-production engineer for films, TV shows and documentaries. A native of Lake Como, Italy, Gianluca moved to Boston at a young age to attend Berklee College of Music. After completing his studies in Contemporary Writing & Production and graduating in 1993, Gianluca returned to Italy to pursue a career as a studio musician. During this time, he was involved in several commercial projects and, through his collaboration with the label Ottonote, founded Ottonote Music Library. In 2007, he was part of a team of composers who scored Dark Resurrection, a Star Wars-themed feature film. After attending the Orchestration course at Berklee College of Music (2009), in 2012 he moved to Los Angeles and graduated in Audio Post Production for Film and TV at Video Symphony (Burbank). Ever since moving to Los Angeles, he has been involved in numerous productions, establishing his reputation in the film music industry and beyond. Gianluca currently works as a freelancer with the Emmy Award winning composer Gigi Meroni at Sonic Vault, where he supervises all aspects of sound post-production, as well as writing music for feature films, TV and Web shows. His recent activities also include collaborations with the Golden Globe nominee Carlo Siliotto (The Punisher, Nomad, The Snitch Cartel, Miracles from Heaven, etc) as music programmer, orchestrator and additional composer. In 2016, the music that he scored for the feature film The Alps from Above (Vidicom Media) was awarded a Global Music Award. In 2017 he became partner of Film Scoring Lab a company that provides original music for visual media and all the music production services for the film industry.