Stefano Mainetti

Professor of Music Composition for Film and Theatre at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Stefano Mainetti is one of the founders of the ACMF, the Italian Association of Music Composers for Films. He was born in Rome, Italy, August 8th 1957. After studying classical guitar attended Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome where he earned a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude in Composition. He studied Conducting with Cesare Croci and Ennio Nicotra and holds a 1st class honours Master of Music in Film Scoring degree. BA, magna cum laude, in Anthropology and Political Science with a published dissertation on Richard Wagner. He was a student of Giorgio Caproni, one of the greatest 20th century Italian poet, his teacher at the primary school, who influenced his musical and artistic training. Twice awarded at the internationally recognized Recanati Guitar Competition in Italy in both 1972 and 1973. Stefano won the "Personalità Europea Oscar Giovanile" in Campidoglio, Rome 1983, for his piano performance of the popular Rai television show theme to "Tg L'Una". First Prize Agimus (Best Original Soundtrack) for the short movie Sera (1996). Winner (Best Original Soundtrack) at the Fantafestival for "Tale of the Mummy" (1998) directed by Russell Mulcahy. Stefano Mainetti is one of the composers who scored the Sony Classical Cd "Abbà Pater", which blends for the very first time Pope's voices and chants with original music. Represented by "Diberti & C." is a member of Siae, the Italian musicians association. In 1995, he composed the soundtrack of the feature film "The Shooter" (1995), a Miramax Films by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood). In 1996, he composed the soundtrack of the feature film Silent Trigger (1996) starring Dolph Lundgren by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander). In 1997 he composed the music for Sub Down (1997) starring Stephen Baldwin. In all, Stefano Mainetti has composed over 100 musical scores including cinema, television and stage productions as well as 35 Cds, the European television series Eurocops (1987) and the Italian television series Orgoglio (2004) (Pride). Best Music for Italian Fiction at the Ravello Festival 2005. In 2006 and 2007 he is member of the commission of the "Festival di Sanremo". "Anica Prize" at the "Salerno Festival" in 2006 for the soundtrack of the TV movie Mafia Signs (2006) "Salvo Randone Prize" for the career in "Mazara del Vallo in 2007". He has composed and conducted the music for "The Word Of Promise" a huge US audio drama of the Bible in 80 Cds with the voices of Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael York, John Voight, Max von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Terence Stamp, and other 600 actors. He is one of the composers of "Alma Mater" a Cd produced in 2009 by the Vatican and "Geffen Records" performed by the "Royal Philarmonic Orchestra" and the "Vatican Choir". This Cd was nominated as "Album of the Year" at the "Classic Brit Awards" London 2010. In 2011 he composed and produced "Tu es Christus" a "Sony Music" cd for the beatification of Pope John Paul II in which featured, amongst others, the voices of Andrea Bocelli and Plácido Domingo. International Euro Mediterraneo Award in Campidoglio, Rome and Napoli Cultural Classic Award for Best Italian Musician 2011. In 2014, for Musa Comunicazione, he published the book "La politica musicale nazista e l'influenza del culto wagneriano". In 2021 he was co-author, together with Simone Corelli e Gilberto Martinelli, of the treatise "Dialoghi, Musica, Effetti: il Suono nell'audiovisivo". The book, published by Lambda, won the critics' award at the "Premio Letterario Internazionale Città di Cattolica". Stefano is the author of "Rendering Revolution". The project was presented at the MAXXI National Art Museum, Rome June 12, 2017; an "augmented music" experience in which music, painting, dance and video art are blended together in a spatial setting. The project aims to be a new synthesis and fusion among different art forms. A modern melodrama, in the most extended sense of the term, a non linear process in which the result is superior to the sum of the parts and in which each component - music, dance, painting and video art - concurs in creating an augmented reality that engrosses the spectator on a multi sensory level. "Rendering Revolution", presented by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, took two years of planning and has received the honorable mention award from Santa Cecilia Conservatory for its exceptional scientific and artistic achievement. He is among the Italian personalities participating in the Charte 18-XXI, a collective of artists, scientists and philosophers brought together by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, artistic director of the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, with the aim of promoting international theatre, with young people and for young people, through a working method and a comparison never made before in the theatrical panorama. As a demonstration of the desire shared by various cultural personalities to create a new space for discussion and dialogue, productions from all over the world participate in the project, including the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.