Silvio Amato (born April 10, 1961, inCatania,Italy), is a composer of classical, contemporary and popular music, and film soundtracks. Currently, he resides in Marina del Rey, CA with his family. He previously resided inBoston,Massachusetts and maintains a studio inMilan, Italy[1]
Amato is son of a distributor of children's clothing and a mother who did not care much forclassical music. The usedpiano 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 toMilan 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."[who?]
In 2008, shortly after his oldest daughter left home to study atBoston 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.[citation needed]
In Milan he wroteLove, One Love for Mina Maria Quaini that was released in May 2010 and reached the top of the charts in Italy. He wroteLe Mama, performed by teen Francesco Pugliese, a finalist in 2010 series of Italian TV talent showIo Canto (I Sing).
In 2010 and 2011, he updated and transformed a never-before-performed music of an unknownMassachusetts composer, the late Walter Horvitz, into a musical currently titledCan't You See That I Am In Love.
His light classical musical score for the fableThe Happy Prince was performed by the La Scala Instrumental Ensemble of Milan (a chamber ensemble formed of key players in theTeatro alla Scala Orchestra). His ice balletsSnow White On Ice,Beauty and the Beast On Ice, andPeter Pan On Ice have been performed throughout Europe. Utah Regional Ballet inProvo, Utah used Amato's score forPeter Pan to choreograph a full ballet, which it debuted in early 2011.[2]
The interfaith oratorioIlluminessence uniting the prayers and teachings ofChristianity,Judaism andIslam, was scheduled to be premiered inBoston, Massachusetts on September 11, 2011, as part of the city's decennial commemoration of theSeptember 11 attacks on America.[3]
He had a 10-year collaboration with Mediaset composing thematic music for network news programs,situation comedies andsoap 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) andBritish Sky Broadcasting.
Amato has writtensoundtracks for motion pictures includingCan't Hardly Wait withMel Brooks,The Mythica by Carlo Vanzina,Ti Oglio Bene Eugenio with Giuliana De Sio and Giancarlo Giannini, and the film by Jerry CalàI Live Alone. In addition, Amato made major contributions to the epic documentary about Sicily, produced by Mediaset.
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