Michael Bianco

Michael Bianco is a Film Composer, Singer/Songwriter, Producer and Actor. He lives in central London, where he plays several venues both solo and with his band, the "Mike Bianco's Band". He works as a freelance composer, songwriter and producer and collaborates with singer songwriters such as Christine Bovill, Fran Clark, Allan Cuevas, Barbara Arhins and others. Since Michael moved to the Uk in April 2010, he immediately started composing original orchestral score music, he has scored a number of shorts, and is a regular colleague of Francesco Bori. He is currently working on the score of the feature films Red Hook Black (2011) by Luis Landivar (Land Varied International) for whom he is also producing the soundtrack album; Sidetracked (2015) by Francesco Bori (in which he also plays the lead) and a short film by Kehinde Fadipe called Spirit Children (2010). Raised in an artistic family, his father (Vittorio Bianco) is a musician and his mother (Manuela Blanchard) is an actress, he started showing artistic tendencies at a very early age. At age 8 Michael studied drums with Italian drumming legend Tullio De Piscopo for two years, performed at theaters and on a children's TV show named Solletico and on Disney Channel. He also acted in the most famous Italian TV show for kids Bim Bum Bam. At the age of 18 he received his singer's diploma at the prestigious "Nuovaadio Musicmedia" school in Milan with a grade of 9.5 out of 10. During his studies at Nuovaadio Musicmedia he also studied Piano Techniques for self-accompanist singers in pursuit of perfecting his musical talents. In October 2003 Michael won a regional competition for songwriters, Malgrate Festival (Lake Como), with the song titled "Sei Tu" and produced his first album "Tales" writing all the songs. In his continued success Michael won a 7000$ a year scholarship at the world renowned Umbria Jazz Festival in July 2004 which would further his musical studies at the world famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While attending Berklee College he was honored with the "Best Contemporary Writing and Production Student" scholarship. Michael was selected to perform a piece, which he wrote and arranged, at the Berklee Performance Center, an Honor not held by many. In May 2007 he graduated in Contemporary Writing and Production, magna cum laude. Then, at the age of 22 Michael moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked for a publishing & production company called DSP Productions. He produced his second album titled "Freedom To Believe" and worked with singer/songwriter Rocio Soleil and with songwriters Beth Dorn and David Lipton. He also played keyboard with the band Honeysmash. In August 2008 He went back to Italy where he produced his third Album called "The Last Day" with a famous Italian Singwriter/Producer Mino Vergnaghi (Giorgia, Zucchero, Il Divo) and played at Italian president Silvio Berlusconi's Christmas dinner in front of 5000 people. In 2010, After composing seven soundtracks for "Attaccastorie" and writing the campaign song "Uno di noi" for the Lombardia region's president Roberto Formigoni, aired on several Italian radios, Michael moved to the UK where he resides and works.