Biography

Born and raised in Italy, Elena Maro is a highly sought after composer for Film, Media, TV and Theatre and Songwriter and Singer

A former professional ballet dancer, orchestra lead singer, and Studio and TV vocalist, before moving to Los Angeles in 2016, Elena worked for many years as a singer songwriter, composer, sound design artist, actress and playwright for theatre productions with symphonic orchestras and popular Italian singers and actors.

She is a Television Academy Voting Member.

As a freelance composer, she has completed a number of Film, TV and Advertising projects, for clients both from Europe and from USA including music for films on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Lifetime, Ion Television (USA), Channel 5 and ITV (UK), TF1 (France), TV8 (Italy), and other VOD Platforms.

Elena is the lyricist for "Today - Say No to Child Labour", a pop song included in the world campaign against child labor by the United Nations' International Labor Organization. The line she wrote "give the voiceless your voice" is the concept that moved her to make music for media. She says: "I want to make music with meaning for meaningful projects".

She has been also involved in Women Filmmakers Projects, being the composer for Television Documentary Series "One of Us", an institutional project produced by the Embassy of Italy to the United States in Washington and the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles. The series is about immigrant women breaking the glass ceiling.

Elena recently completed the score for the animation segment "Aria" included in the anthology feature film"Tell It Like A Woman" directed by female directors like Taraji P. Henson, Catherine Hardwicke, Maria Sole Tognazzi and starring Eva Longoria, EGOT achiever Jennifer Hudson, Cara Delevingne, Marcia Gay Harden, Margherita Buy and more, The film is Academy® Nominated for Best Original Song with "Applause" by Diane Warren

Elena's awards include: Best Composer Overall at TWBFF 2022, Arizona, US, Best Original Soundtrack of the month and of the Year at Mirabilia International Film Awards and Best Original Soundtrack for Narrative Film at Garoa Awards for "In Dubbio", ( 44 awards winning drama about violence against women) Best Sound Design at GIMFA and is the recipient of four Global Music Awards, one for the Orchestral Suite #1 from her score for the western film "Miss Happy" and others for her scores for documentaries.

Her Christmas Jazz Song "As Long As You Are Near", recorded at Capitol Studios during Chris Walden Masterclass, was awarded an honorable mention as a finalist at The Great American Song Contest in 2019.

Elena keeps on developing her craft and musical voice and her eclecticism covers a wide variety of styles.

She loves thinking outside the box and creating every time unique, distinctive scores and songs that will give each project a recognizable sound and writing music to stories that inspire, educate and empower.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elena Maro