Massimo Sammi is a composer for film and multimedia originally from Genoa, Italy and currently residing in New York City, where he's pursuing a Master's 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 B.M. in Jazz Composition with Academic Honors and nomination to the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society. 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 50 minutes 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. 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, Bruce Broughton, Mark Suozzo and David Spear.
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