Vittorio R. Damiano
Music Theory and Composition, ‘17

Vittorio R. Damiano is the Director of Music at Grooveworx, an independent production music company that specializes in custom and curated music for film, television, and video games advertising. He is the head of sync, publishing, administration, music strategy, supervision, original custom music production, and artist development for the trailer division of Grooveworx, and has executive produced over three thousand tracks across twenty six albums for the production music library.

Most recently, Vittorio has contributed to film campaigns like A24’s “Talk To Me,” which won a Silver award in the 2024 Clio Music Awards in the Use of Music in Theatrical Trailers & Teasers medium, Universal’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Oppenheimer,” and “The Exorcist: Believer,” and Disney’s “Avatar: The Way of Water”. His recent contributions in TV campaigns include FX’s “American Horror Story: Delicate,” Paramount’s “Special Ops: Lioness,” Disney’s “Star Wars: AHSOKA,” and “Star Wars: ANDOR,” Amazon Prime’s “Shelter,” and season four of truTV’s “Tacoma FD,” which won the 2023 Mark Award in the Best Use of Production Music in a Scripted TV Series medium.

Before Vittorio was a music executive, he worked as a composer, orchestrator, and music editor for film and television, assisting on various soundtracks like Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

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