Dario Marianelli was born in Pisa, and studied piano and composition in Florence and London. After a year as postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was also the chairman of the Contemporary Music Society, he received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation for a course held by Judith Weir and Lloyd Newson at Bretton University College, on the subject of Composition and Choreography. Other scholarships allowed him to go to Germany for a series of workshops on European Film Music, and to spend three years at the National Film and Television School, from which he graduated in 1997. 

Over the last few years Dario has written music for many feature films, TV dramas, documentaries, animations, theatre, contemporary dance and concerts. He has written orchestral pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and for the Britten-Pears Orchestra, vocal music for the BBC Singers, and incidental music for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Dario was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Score category for his music for the BAFTA award winning Working Title feature film: Pride & Prejudice. This score also won him the coveted ‘Classical Brit’ award in the Soundtrack/Musical Theatre Composer of the year category and has also earned him an Ivor Novello award nomination.

MOVIESCORE MEDIA ALBUMS BY DARIO MARIANELLI: