Simone Giuliani

Simone Giuliani is a renowned music producer, film composer, orchestrator and keyboard player living in Manhattan, New York. He was born in Florence, Italy.

He is currently recording and producing Sambismo, a project with Zé Luis Oliveira[Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil] and Béco Dranoff[Bebel Gilberto, Red Hot & Rio].

He recently worked with producer Robert Sadin (Sting, Herbie Hancock) on the latest record of cellist Charles Curtis.

He collaborated with talented artist Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto, Gorillaz, Sean Lennon) on the soundtrack for the movie 'Color Me Love'.

Since 2007 he has been joining forces with Grammy Award-winner producer Jason Olaine for Monterey Jazz Festival Records/Concord Music Group, working on rare live recordings of Miles Davis Quintet, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Tito Puente among others.

Simone composed music for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Spike Lee's "Humanity" project, CBS News, Volkswagen, the movies “A Raisin In The Sun” (Golden Globe-nominated, featuring P. Diddy and John Stamos), "Little Gold Men" and "Blindspot" and the best-selling CD release Café del Mar.

You can also hear his music in the film "Beyond Ipanema" featuring David Byrne, M.I.A. and Devendra Banhart.

In the US, with DJ Corrado Bay he gave birth to the electronic music projects: Racoon and Lazybatusu. Both these acts appeared in more than 300 electronic/downtempo compilations released worldwide and reached the Top 10 Music Chart in iTunes Store for Electronic music.

He's the founder of Emunity Records, a digital label that focuses on future-lounge, nu-jazz and ambient soundscapes.

MEMORY LANE
On the music business side, he has served as Director of Digital Initiatives for Festival Network, the legendary company founded by George Wein in 1954 that created the Newport Folk Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival series but most importantly launched the model of music festival as it's known today.

He pursued studies of Jazz Piano & Improvisation with Ray Santisi, piano teacher of Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, at Berklee Music Schools Clinics. He has frequented The Juilliard School, studying Advanced Orchestration with Daniel Ott and Composition with Conrad Cummings.

He performed with the British act Psychic Phenomena, 10-pieces organic hip-hop live ensemble opening for The Roots in 1998.

In the early 90s, with Francesco Cipriani and Kareem Bennett he started Funkareem, the first original future-funk/neo-soul act in Italy at the time. He also toured Italy with the historical punk-rock cult band Diaframma and recorded four albums with them.

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