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Name
  
Silvio Amato

Role
  
Composer

Parents
  
Carmelo Amato



Albums
  
Il Meglio di Centovetrine, Faraway flares, Landscapes

Similar People
  
Umberto Smaila, Franco Fasano, Marco Destro, Ezio Greggio, Giorgio Vanni

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Silvio Amato (born April 10, 1961 in Catania, Italy), a composer of classical, contemporary and popular music, and film soundtracks. Currently, he resides in Woodland Hills, CA, moving from Boston, Massachusetts in March, but maintains a studio in Milan, Italy

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Early life

Amato is son of a distributor of children's clothing and a mother who did not care much for classical music. The used piano his father brought home to "fill space" in the family's living room soon became an obsession for young Silvio who learned the instrument on his own despite his mother's constant pleas "I beg you Silvio, please, please, please stop playing." Eventually, he studied classical piano with a master teacher.

Moving north to Milan as a young man, he established himself as a composer and arranger, working with a variety of popular and light classical artists as well as composing for television and motion pictures. It has been said that "his approachable music captures the vibrancy and romanticism of contemporary Italian culture, appealing to devotees of popular and classical genres alike."

Works

In 2008, shortly after his oldest daughter left home to study at Boston University in the United States, The Vatican commissioned him to compose a modern opera that would tie together common religious themes found in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Soon he and his wife and two younger children moved to Boston as well. "What more inspirational place than the birthplace of America – the melting pot of the people and religions of the world—to write music about spiritual concepts that unite people of faith?" he said in biography published at the Illuminessence website.

In Milan he wrote Love, One Love for Mina Maria Quaini that was released in May 2010 and reached the top of the charts in Italy. He wrote Le Mama, performed by pre-pubescent teen Francesco Pugliese, a finalist in 2010 series of Italian TV talent show Io Canto (I Sing).

In 2010 and 2011, he updated and transformed a never-before-performed music of an unknown Massachusetts composer, the late Walter Horvitz, into a musical currently titled Can't You See That I Am In Love.

His light classical musical score for the fable The Happy Prince was performed by the La Scala Instrumental Ensemble of Milan (a chamber ensemble formed of key players in the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra). His ice ballets Snow White On Ice, Beauty and the Beast On Ice, and Peter Pan On Ice have been performed throughout Europe. Utah Regional Ballet in Provo, Utah used Amato's score for Peter Pan to choreograph a full ballet, which it debuted in early 2011.

The interfaith oratorio Illuminessence uniting the prayers and teachings of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, was scheduled to be premiered in Boston, Massachusetts on September 11, 2011, as part of the city's decennial commemoration of the September 11 attacks on America.

Soundtracks

He had a 10-year collaboration with Mediaset composing thematic music for network news programs, situation comedies and soap operas. In addition, he was undertaken substantial assignments with mainstream Italian and international television networks: The Italian public television network RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), Telemontecarlo, La7 (Telcom Italia Media's entertainment network) and British Sky Broadcasting.

Amato has written soundtracks for motion pictures including Can't Hardly Wait with Mel Brooks, The Mythica by Carlo Vanzina, Ti Oglio Bene Eugenio with Giuliana De Sio and Giancarlo Giannini, and the film by Jerry Calà I Live Alone. In addition, Amato made major contributions to the epic documentary about Sicily, produced by Mediaset.

Cinema

  • Chicken Park, directed by Jerry Calà (1994)
  • I mitici - Colpo gobbo a Milano, directed by Carlo Vanzina (1995)
  • Senza movente, directed by Luciano Odorisio (1999)
  • Svitati, directed by Ezio Greggio (2000)
  • Operazione Rosmarino, directed by Alessandra Populin (2001)
  • Ti voglio bene Eugenio, directed by Francisco Fernandez (2002)
  • Torno a vivere da solo, directed by Jerry Calà (2008)
  • Theatre

  • The Happy Prince, Filarmonica de La Scala
  • Snow White on ice, Wild Rose London (2005)
  • Peter Pan on ice, Wild Rose London (2006)
  • Beauty and the Beast on ice, Wild Rose London (2007)
  • TV Series

  • Baci, primi baci, sigla della serie Primi baci, lyrics and music by A. Conticello, L. Cersosimo and Silvio Amato, performed by Barbara and Walter (1995)
  • Beetleborgs - Quando si scatena il vento dell'avventura, lyrics and music by A. Valeri Manera and Silvio Amato, performed by Vincenzo Draghi (1997)
  • Tartarughe Ninja - L'avventura continua, lyrics and music by A. Valeri Manera and Silvio Amato, performed by Vincenzo Draghi (1998)
  • Mister Ed, il mulo parlante, lyrics and music by S. De Pasquale and Silvio Amato (1998)
  • TV Shows

    Opening titles
  • Bumpers (Happy Channel)
  • Bumpers (Rete 4)
  • Canta con me, sigla di coda de Il Grande Circo di Retequattro, lyrics and muisca di S. De Pasquale and Silvio Amato, performed by Sabina Stilo (Rete 4)
  • Controcampo (Italia Uno)
  • Cuori e Denari, lyrics and music by S. De Pasquale, C. Laudisio and Silvio Amato (Canale 5)
  • Dentro un sorriso, sigla di coda di La sai l'ultima?, lyrics and music by A. Bonfanti, L. Reggi and Silvio Amato, performed by Natalia Estrada (Canale 5)
  • Domani, lyrics and music by S. De Pasquale/C. Laudisio - Silvio Amato (Canale 5)
  • È arrivato Bim Bum Bam, sigla di Bim Bum Bam, lyrics and music by Alessandra Valeria Manera and Silvio Amato (Canale 5 - Italia Uno)
  • Game Boat, lyrics and music by Alessandra Valeria Manera and Silvio Amato, performed by Pietro Ubaldi (Rete 4)
  • Extreme (La7)
  • I campioni d'Italia
  • Io cerco l'amor, sigla di testa di La sai l'ultima?, lyrics and music by A. Bonfanti, L. Reggi and Silvio Amato, performed by Natalia Estrada (Canale 5)
  • La gitana
  • Mediadigit (Happy Channel)
  • Meteo 4 (Rete 4)
  • Oasi (La7)
  • Promo di rete (Canale 5)
  • Senti chi parla
  • Sotto a chi tocca, lyrics and music by A. Bonfanti/Silvio Amato (Canale 5)
  • TG4 (Rete 4) (from 1997 to 2012)
  • TG La7 (La7)
  • Un pugno e una carezza (Raiuno)
  • Vent'anni Canale 5 (Canale 5)
  • Zap Zap, lyrics and music by Fabrizio Berlincioni and Silvio Amato, cantata di Cartoon Kids (Telemontecarlo)
  • Background Music
  • Bim Bum Bam (Canale 5 - Italia Uno)
  • Controcampo (Italia Uno)
  • Extreme (La7)
  • La sai l'ultima? (Canale 5)
  • Oasi (La7)
  • Meteo 4 (Rete 4)
  • TG4 (Rete 4)
  • Sitcom

  • Cascina Vianello (Canale 5)
  • Don Luca (Canale 5)
  • I misteri di Cascina Vianello (Canale 5)
  • Norma e Felice (Canale 5)
  • Soap opera

  • Centovetrine (Canale 5)
  • Micaela (Rete 4)
  • Renzo e Lucia - Storia d'amore di un uomo d'onore (Rete 4)
  • Documentaries

  • Sicily (Canale 5)
  • TV Movies

  • Non chiamatemi papà (Italia Uno)
  • Commercials

  • Abbey Bank
  • Acchiappa la Talpa
  • Bambola
  • Bancalotto
  • Calze Glamour
  • Coccole e Baci
  • Coco e Rita - La coppia canterina
  • Estatone
  • Giochi Preziosi
  • Gira la bottiglia
  • Il Sole 24 ORE
  • Inglesina - La carrozzina
  • Lava la Valeria
  • Martina Cuoricina
  • Oil of Olaz
  • Penna Brio
  • Principessa Sissi
  • Ramses
  • Salmoiraghi & Viganò
  • Smoby
  • Super Pasqualone
  • Tanya Scia
  • Teuco Docce
  • Watergames
  • Radio

  • Jingles (Radio Italia)
  • Jingles (Radio Capital)
  • Jingles (Radio DeeJay)
  • Jingles (Station One)
  • Te quiero mi amor, lyrics and music by Depsa and M. Giuliani and Silvio Amato, interpretata da Patrizia Rossetti (Radio Italia)
  • CD

  • Faraway flares (2008)
  • Landscapes
  • References

    Silvio Amato Wikipedia