1. biografia

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Gabriele ROBERTO
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cap, luogo (Provincia), Nazione
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mail: gab@gabrieleroberto.com
http://www.gabrieleroberto.com/
luogo e data di nascita: Cuneo, 1972

Gabriele is the first Italian composer who has been awarded with the Japan Academy Prize, the most prestigious prize in Japan for a film music composer.
He has been recently nominated again for the Japan Academy Prize thanks to his last work, the score for the fantasy movie by Director Tetsuya Nakashima entitled “Paco and the Magical Picture Book”.
In 2001 he completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Composition at the Royal College of music in London studying with Joseph Horovitz.
During his studies he won the “Major Van Someren Godfery Memorial Prize”, Composition competition published by the Royal College.
Gabriele’s musical interests have always been extended to the film scoring.
Since November 2005 Gabriele begins to work for GrandFunk Inc., leader Japanese music production company.
He scored the orchestral soundtrack for the movie Memories of Matsuko by Director Tetsuya Nakashima and as a result to this he won the Japan Academy Prize 2007.
The colloboration with Director Nakashima has been extended to the his next movie entitled
Paco and the Magical Picture Book starring Yakusho Koji (Babel, Memories of a Geisha), Satoshi Tsumabuki (Tokyo Drift).
The DVD of Memories of Matsuko is also distribuited in England.
Gabriele scored part of the soundtrack of the popular Japanese animation Devil May Cry(based on the world famous PlayStation game) which has been dubbed in English, French, German and Spanish.
The DVD of Devil May Cry reached number one in the animation DVD sales chart in the United States.
Outside Japan Gabriele began a creative collaboration with the eccentric Hong Kong Director Pang Ho Cheung scoring the movie Exodus. Thanks to this work he got a nomination for Best Music Score at the Golden Bauhinia Award, Hong Kong.
The collaboration will be extended to the Director's new movie entitled Dream Home.
Dream Home already found international distributors, and so far it will be shown in cinemas in France.
Gabriele works also for Television commercials (among many, he scored a very popular Japanese commercial starring the world famous soccer player Ronaldinho), and arranges and orchestrates strings and brass sections for top ranking Japanese pop-rock and rap artists.
Gabriele’s work is published by Warner, Universal, Columbia, Emi, Victor Entertainment, RedAlert Records.