ABOUT

 

Francesca Guccione is an Italian composer and violinist.
 

Fascinated from the very beginning by the relationship between sound and image, she combined her violin training with studies in composition and film scoring, earning a Master’s degree in this field with highest honors. Her writing moves between chamber music, analog electronics, and studio production, exploring sound as a perceptual architecture of time: ostinatos, cycles, and timbral transformations do not become propulsion, but suspension and immersion.

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In 2021 she released her debut modern classical album Muqataea on the French label Whales Records, featuring renowned cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima as artistic director of the project. In 2022 she released the EP Utopia Aerial View, produced in collaboration with Moog Music. In September 2024 she released her second album The Geometry of Time on the Berlin-based label Neue Meister.

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Alongside her discography, she performs widely across Europe in festivals and venues such as Opera Prima Festival, Blaues Rauschen 2025, and Superbooth 25. She has also been hosted at the Colosseum in Berlin—also as an opening act for Hans-Joachim Roedelius—and performed at the National Museum of Warsaw for the event Bal Surrealistyczny.

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In 2023 she collaborated on the soundtrack for Lubo, directed by Giorgio Diritti and starring Franz Rogowski, which premiered in competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. In the same year, she contributed to the soundtrack of the Finnish film Death Is a Problem for the Living, presented in competition at the 2023 Rome Film Festival. She has also collaborated on the music for Filip and Chopin, Chopin! by Polish director Michał Kwieciński.

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In 2024 she won the European grant Culture Moves Europe, which enabled a residency period in Berlin to develop the project Euphonia, in collaboration with Neue Meister.

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Alongside her artistic practice, she conducted research on Jóhann Jóhannsson as part of a PRIN-funded project, presenting the findings at several Italian universities and conservatories, including DAMS Turin and the University of Udine. She has also released official arrangements of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s works for Neue Meister, including "A Sparrow Alighted upon our Shoulder", "A Pile of Dust", and "Good Night, Day!", as well as the single "Eurydice", created with Norwegian singer Red Moon from the melodic material of the renowned track "Flight from the City".

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She is currently a PhD Researcher at the “Francesco Venezze” Conservatory of Rovigo and the “Arrigo Pedrollo” Conservatory of Vicenza, where she investigates contemporary composition at the intersection of string writing, digital production, and electroacoustic practices, with a specific focus on DAW-based workflows and on new forms of notation and the formalization of creative processes.

 

She is also the curator of The Sonic Atelier, a platform dedicated to interviews and critical insights on the contemporary composer, featuring guests such as Caroline Shaw, Volker Bertelmann, Rafiq Bhatia, and Robot Koch.

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Her creativity is poetic and suspended between reality and imagination: a gateway to hidden worlds.