Born and raised in Rome Italy Daniele Truocchio is an award-winning composer, music producer, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. AForbes 30 Under 30 lister class of 2022, selected alongside Kabhy Lame, Måneskin, and Simone Ashley to name a few. The list, which is considered to be the world’s most impactful community of young entrepreneurs and game-changers includes innovators such as Adele, Daniel Kaluuya, LeBron James, Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, as well as the founders of companies like Dropbox, Robinhood, Spotify, Canva and Instagram.
Truocchio’s scores include “New York International Film Awards” best score main theme winner In Between, “Hamilton Black Film Festival” best feature film winner Memoirs Of A Black Girl, the seventeen-time award-winning short film The Essence of Everything which counts Best Score Soundtrack at Valle D’Itria Film Festival and Best Short Film at Etna Comics 2019, judged by Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory), Tony Bancroft (Mulan, The Lion King), and Dove Vai (in competition for the Academy of Italian Cinema David di Donatello Award).
Daniele has collaborated on over 100 episodes of mainstream television scores including Legacies (The CW), God Friended Me (CBS), Pretty Little Liars (Freeform), Roswell, New Mexico (The CW) feature films Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile (Netflix), Ghosts of War (Miscellaneous Entertainment), as well as 3 times Emmy Nominated Documentary The Weight of Success, and The Relentless One that he has recently co-scored with acclaimed composer Mike Suby.
Daniele’s music journey began at the age of 7 studying guitar and performing his first live show at the age of 10 together with his two brothers. A truly life-changing experience happened during his teenage years becoming the chosen mentee of Senegalese guitarist and composer Peace Diouf which, through intense training that lasted several years (à la The Karate Kid), offered Daniele an open-minded understanding of world music and sounds.
He has studied classical composition and guitar at the Italian Conservatory, and Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston with a minor in Africana Studies. He is a national voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and of The Recording Academy (Grammys). Daniele is married to Giorgia, a Food Scientist and creator of “MakEATeasy“
Pool Boy, directed by Luke Willis and scored by Daniele Truocchio is an official selection of the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles 2022, and will screen at the Academy of Motion Picture...
Daniele on the roof of the world (RAI TGR Lazio TV Interview) WATCH English Translation: Daniele on the roof of the world Together with the Maneskin, he is among the...
Dai Måneskin a Khaby Lame: chi sono gli italiani sulla lista 30 Under 30 Europe di Forbes. Leggi (or translate the article) Leggi (or translate the article) CONNECT WITH...
“Daniele Truocchio, considered by Forbes among the most influential under 30 in the world. Interview on “La Repubblica” – Italy’s second-biggest newspaper. Read or translate the full article Read or...
Daniele interviewed on “ROMATODAY”. Read or translate the full article “His name appears in the list drawn up by Forbes to include the most influential Italians under 30 in the...
Daniele Nella Top “Under 30” di Forbes Il Compositore che Conquista Hollywood English Translation: Daniele on Forbes’ Top “Under 30” List The Composer Conquering Hollywood. From Torvaianica to the USA,...
Daniele interviewed on “Il Corriere della Città”. Read or translate the full article PRINTED VERSION – April 7, 2022 ONLINE VERSION – April 12, 2022 Read the...
Daniele interviewed on the popular online magazine “ROMATODAY“. Read or translate the full article One of his upcoming projects: “This summer the first TV series I signed as a...
Daniele interviewed on one of Italy’s biggest newspapers “Il Messaggero“. Read or translate the full article PRINTED VERSION – March 3, 2022 IL MESSAGGERO FRONT PAGE – March 3,...
COSMO: A Sci-fi Fantasy short film by Thomas Thomas featured on the popular channel Jane Montana, a rough and tough law-woman, is in a pickle. A gang of outlaws led...
The music score I wrote for the film IN BETWEEN won the “BEST MAIN THEME” award at the New York International Film Awards, as well as getting nominated for the...
This month I became a National Voting Member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the Music Peer Group. I’m honored to be welcomed by such an iconic and...
Happy to finally share this interview. Thank you SHOUTOUT LA for reaching out, and for allowing me to share part of my journey and news! Thank you to everyone I...
I’m incredibly happy to share this interview for the Italian magazine “Il Nuovo magazine” written by the fantastic Elisa Camilli, where I share a bit about my process when composing,...
A vision that started 4 years ago, a version of a song picked to be originally performed in front of 10,000 young Boy Scouts (to share meaningful messages through music,...
On August 12th, 2020 Daniele was featured on an article written by The FAKE Magazine, an online magazine that has recently interviewed Netflix directors, Olympian athletes and amazing creatives. FULL...
On July 2019, Daniele was interviewed by VoyageLA.com to share some of the unthinkable coincidences that brought him to Los Angeles… CHECK THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE “We love small businesses,...
Daniele was hired to be the Head Orchestrator of Netflix’s newly acquired Film “Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile” Music by: Dennis Smith and Golden Globes Nominated Composer Marco Beltrami Here...
A magazine article about Daniele’s track “Gravity Walk”. Check it out here: http://www.tunedloud.com/2018/04/26/daniele-truocchio-gravity-walk-meticulously-crafted-mood-inducing-music/ Also playing on #TunedLoudRadio 4-6 times a day: http://www.hitradio.tunedloud.com/ Space is beautiful and wondrous, and it is here that Daniele...
On February 2017, Daniele produced a video for the Berklee College of Music Youtube channel where he conducted a 40 people ensemble, a big band plus a gospel choir reproducing...
Check out Daniele’s interview with Rai, Italy’s biggest Television Network. Click on the image below to watch the streaming: “Rai Italia is the international television service of Rai Internazionale, a subsidiary...
Daniele will feature Jacob Collier on the composition Hideaway at Kresge Auditorium on December 10, 2016 MIT’s documentary about the event: QUOTES ABOUT JACOB: “Jazz music’s new messiah” – The Guardian “The 8th wonder...
S.O.A.R. 2016 – Official Big Band – This Big Band was exclusively built for S.O.A.R. 2016. The Big Band directed by Daniele will play some of the arrangements that Michael...
WHAT IS S.O.A.R (Scouting’s Outdoor Adventure on the River): one of the biggest Boy Scout of America reunion. 6.000 teenagers between the age of 10 and 20 years old mostly...