Giulio Carmassi

Hi! I’m a working film and television composer, arranger, touring multi-instrumentalist, and long time YouTuber with more than twenty years of professional experience. I teach composition, piano, improvisation, jazz harmony, arranging, film scoring, music production, and the complete video-production process—from planning and shooting through editing, sound, and final delivery.

As a performer, I toured internationally with the Pat Metheny Group and have worked across piano and keyboards, bass, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, woodwinds, drums, and voice. This broad instrumental background allows me to help students understand music as an interconnected language rather than as a collection of isolated techniques.

My composition and production work spans film, television, documentaries, advertising, and branded content. I have contributed to projects connected with Amazon Prime, CNN, Netflix, Apple, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Volvo, and other major clients, including feature films that have screened at Sundance and Tribeca mutliple times.

For more than twenty years, I have also independently produced online video content as a one-person operation, handling concept development, planning, writing, shooting, lighting, audio, editing, graphics, and publishing. My YouTube work has reached more than 2.5 million views.

I trained as a classical pianist at the Luigi Boccherini Conservatory in Italy, completed the Recording Program at Musicians Institute—where I was named Student of the Year—and later completed UCLA Extension’s Film Scoring program.

I welcome all students of all ages that want to explore what is possible with art and media. 

I hope to be helpful in connecting you with the voice in inside. :) 

My biggest goal is to empower people to trust their own inner taste and artistic personality, rather than trying to fit into some preconceived channel.

For each person there’s a different path to learn how to trust one’s own voice.

But I believe it’s with encouragement, curiosity and some daring, that most students lock into something they can truly be passionate about, and have fun with.

Techniques can facilitate the journey, but ultimately the propelling engine is one’s genuine passion and excitement about the journey.

If it’s not liberating, and electrifying, art rarely shares its gifts.

And as important it is to not be in one’s own way emotionally and artistically, so it is to not do so physically. It’s paramount to not let tension, fear, and the desire for control, dull what our technical abilities can ultimately achieve.