BRUNO BRUGNANO is an Award Winning Movie Composer and Recording Artist.

 

In his ongoing, decades-long career as as a musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, sound designer and recording artist, he has composed, arranged and produced music scores and original songs for feature films, television, documentaries, and commercials, amassing over a hundred albums to his credits, receiving numerous awards from film festivals around the world, including Festival de Cannes, Venice Film Festival, MTV Video Music Award, Sundance Film Festival , Locarno Film Festival, Le Fifa , Season Award, Thai Oscar Award, Maverick Movie Award , Thai Critics Movie Award and many more.

 

Born in Milan, Italy, he's an honors graduate from the Musicians Institute, College of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles, California, USA, also studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Perugia, Italy, and he has a Master’s Degree in Jazz Guitar from the C.D.M. Milan Music Institute

 

Bruno in 1990 moved from Italy to Los Angeles and in 1992 from USA to South of Asia.

 

Prior to his freelance career Bruno worked extensively for GMM Grammy Entertainment, Sony, BEC Tero, Polygram, and numerous other major record labels creating hit songs and award-winning albums for a diverse array of artists.

 

In 1996 Bruno was the arranger and producer for the album and live show held at the Thai Cultural Center in Bangkok in occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Ascension to the Throne of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej

 

Bruno has also worked closely with H.R.H Thai Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, first daughter of the Thai King Rama IX for four consecutive years as her personal composer for her feature films and TV programs and had also the honor to arrange the Thai Royal Anthem for King Rama X .

 

Bruno recent jobs include wide range of films and documentaries and TV series including Steven Seagal's movies "Attrition" and "General Commander" , a documentary "Ghost Fleet" ( Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival) a documentary about the Swiss Architect Mario Botta " Oltre lo Spazio" (Official selection at the Locarno Film Festival), co-composed the soundtrack for "The Devil Child of Nezha" which became China's highest grossing animated film of all time and also first 3D animated IMAX feature film produced in China, and the very successful Chinese movie “ Jade Dynasty “ and the first Thai feature movie for Netflix  called “The Maid “

 

More recently, Bruno been working on numerous international movies, including Father Christmas is Back for Netflix featuring  Elizabeth Hurley, Nathalie Cox, John Cleese, and Kelsey Grammer, A week In Paradise featuring Malik Akerman, Connie Nielsen, Philip Winchester, One Year Off featuring Jeff Fahey, Nathalie Cox, Chad Michael Collins, Ray Fearon, The Lake an Epic movie that mark the first production project between China and Thailand and a Vietnamese movie called Nightmare for Dien Quan Film.

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Scored a very popular TV series for Thai PBS called Plai Jawak including the main title song and worked as a co-composer on two different Chinese movies called Rat Disaster 

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In February 2022 bruno completed a Malaysian movie by well know director Dean Said called Harum Malam and at the moment working on a big Hollywood/Chinese animation movie called Chosen to be released later this year

 

Bruno is been working over the past few years, on different arrangement for the Thai Royal Anthem to be shown at the Thais cinemas all over the country and wrote an official song for the Thai International Airport Suvarnabhumi and numerous commercials including Ford, Isuzu, Oreo, Prudential, Ensure Gold, and many more

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Bruno recently had a chance to record in his studio some additional music for the composer Benjamin Wallfisch for the new Ron Howard upcoming movie called Thirteen Lives

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He's been a guest speaker at the first TED Conference held in Bangkok, and also he's been included in The 300 list (Thailand Leading Expats) for the last six consecutive years and he's a member of the Asian Academy Creative Awards Grand Jury and since 2020 he's part of the Jury for the Bangkok International Documentary Award .

 

Exhibiting a wide stylistic range and facile command of both orchestral, acoustic and electronic composition, Bruno has become one of the most sought-after composers in Asia.

 

Bruno's ability to work in creative partnership with a film's director, as well as his skills as an arranger and engineer add to his appeal

 

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