Claudio Simonetti

Musician, composer, conductor, author.
He studied composition and piano at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and is the founder of the famous progressive rock group Goblin. In 2014 he founded his new band: Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, with whom he started touring around the world in 2015.
He has composed soundtracks of Italian and American films, including the films by Dario Argento Deep Red, Suspiria, Phenomena, Opera, I have no sleep, Il cartaio, La terza madre, Tenebre, Dracula 3D, as well as Dawn of the dead/Zombi and Wampyr by George A. Romero.He has written soundtracks for films by Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Lucio Fulci, Lamberto Bava,Castellano & Pipolo and Salvatore Samperi. He composed the music and conducted the orchestra in the broadcast Rai Buon Compleanno TV (1984).
The musician and animator in Pronto è la Rai? (1988). In 1999 he founded Daemonia, a band with which he released the album Dario Argento Tribute. In 2000, the Goblin band met to compose the soundtrack for Non ho sonno by Dario Argento, the only episode of the reunion. In 2005: soundtrack of Jenifer - Istinto assassino and in 2006 Pelts, also by Dario Argento, for the American TV series Masters of Horror.
In 2017 he published his biography written in collaboration with the journalist Giovanni Rossi: Claudio Simonetti - Il ragazzo d'argento, published by Tsunami Edizioni.
Won numerous awards and major accolades worldwide, including the Golden Méliès to the Career at the Sitges Film Festival (The Sitges Film Festival - to be exact, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya - is specialized in fantasy and horror films, and is considered one of the most important in the world). For several years, Claudio Simonetti and his band have been touring around the USA. Mainly USA and Canada, where the soundtracks of Argento’s most successful films are played live, and they hold everywhere, even in Japan, sold out concerts with the great film and record hits of the historical band.

 

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