Massimo Sammi is a composer originally from Genoa, Italy and currently residing in New York City, where he's pursuing a Master of Music degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University. After the studies at Genoa's Conservatory “Niccolo Paganini”, in 2006 he won a scholarship to attend the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he has earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Composition with Academic Honors and nomination to the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society.

He studied jazz composition and improvisation with Ken Schaphorst, Ran Blake, Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Banacos and classical composition and orchestration with Michael Gandolfi, John Mallia and Dennis Leclaire. He has studied film composition with with two-time Emmy award winning composer Hummie Mann at the 2010 Pacific Northwest Summer Program in Seattle, and cinematic orchestration in Los Angeles with Steven Scott Smalley. In 2010 he was selected to participate at the NYU/ASCAP "Buddy Baker" Film Scoring workshop, where he had the chance to attend classes and seminars with Ira Newborn, Mark Snow, Bruce Broughton and David Spear.

Sammi's diverse musical background has found a great expressive medium in the moving image. In 2009 he was hired by the Emerson College Prof. Daniel Gaucher, to score the documentary “Written in Stone”, about the debate within the archeological community concerning the nature of the stone artifacts in New Hampshire's “America's Stonehenge”, which has been selected for the 2010 Boston International Film Festival. He recently scored two series, "Reckless" and "Kingbreaker" for the WEB TV channel "Standard Issue", and will start working on a third one, "Young Gentlemen Explorers" in the beginning of 2012. You can check the "News" section of this website for the latest updates about his current engagements.

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"What's your definition of happiness, Mr. Hitchcock?"

"A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close for me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.”

- from an Alfred Hitchcock interview