About
MY CAREER IN SHORT
A professional composer, violinist and music producer, with 22 year of experience in the international music business.
Francesco Cerrato was born in Asti in 1982 and began studying violin with Lee Robert Mosca at the Suzuki Talent Center in Turin at the age of 4 years old and composition at 13 years old with Arturo Sacchetti. Since his childhood he has been the protagonist of international television and theater shows (RAI, Mediaset, Smith-Hemion Productions).
After graduating at age 17, he continued his violin studies with Pavel Vernikov. Cerrato has won numerous international competitions during the first phase of his concert career and has participated in more than 400 concerts in Europe, Russia, Africa, Brazil, USA, Korea and Japan. In 2012 he founded the research group on ancient music Armoniosa with which he has an intense concert and record activity throughout Europe. On the British magazine “Gramophone” Cerrato has been described as “an authentic violin ace”.
His polyhedral career brought him into contact with great artists of music and entertainment like Roger Moore, Audrey Hepburn, Al Jarreau, Carla Fracci, Reinhard Goebel, Giuliano Carmignola, Mario Brunello, Enrico Bronzi, Fabio Vacchi, Azio Corghi, Luca Ronconi, Giorgio Conte, Ron, Vittorio De Scalzi, Roberto Tiranti, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Javier Girotto, Rita Marcotulli, Giampaolo Bandini, Cesare Chiacchiaretta and many others.
He won the first prize at the “Mario Nascimbene Award 2016” an Italian international competition for the composition of film music. His song “On The Unicorn” from the last album produced by Machiavelli Music is nominated for the “Best Contemporary Classical Production Music Track” at the Production Music Awards 2019, London (UK). On 2021 he won the Grand Prize at the International Youth Music Competition, Atlanta (USA), with his concert music composition “Toccata” for four cellos.
He collaborates as a composer, violinist and music producer with the best international music labels like EMI-KPM, Decca, Sony, Naxos, Warner-Chappell and others. His music is daily broadcasted in TV shows (BBC, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, CBS, RAI, Mediaset and others), documentaries (Discovery) and independent films and series all over the world.
It is founder and president of Reddress s.r.l., a company born in 2018 for the production and distribution of music albums and event organization. Since 2021, with the production of “Larvae” a short film by Alessandro Rota, RedDress extends its activities as a film production company for independent movies.
In 2022 he won the prestigious “Mark Awards” in Los Angeles (USA), “Cannes Indie Shorts Awards” (France), “Ethereal Horror Fest” in Austin (Texas, USA), “Dark Veins Horror Fest” (Italy), with the soundtrack of the film “Larvae”.
He also gets the job as composer and arranger in residence, for the Christmas concerts dedicated to the shareholders of the bank “Gruppo Cassa di Risparmio di Asti”, composing and arranging songs for the rock-symphonic ensemble “Pops’Harmonic Orchestra” and the Italian singer star Enrico Ruggeri.
From January 2023 moved his studio in Turin and collaborates strictly with the record labels Machiavelli Music (Italy), Glory Oath+Blood/Warner Chappell and Industry Music (Los Angeles, USA).
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DISCOGRAPHY SELECTION
As a Composer | Orchestrator | Sound Engineer
As a Musician | Producer | Sound Engineer
