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**** Rossano Galante is one of the best and brightest young composer-orchestrators on the Film and TV music scene today. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in trumpet performance from SUNY at Buffalo in 1992. As there was no composition or orchestration courses offered there for tonal composers, he taught himself. In 1992, he was one of only nineteen people from across the country to be accepted into the University of Southern California's Film Scoring Program, where he studied with the late Jerry Goldsmith (Oscar winner for “THE OMEN.”) At the age of thirty-two, he moved to Southern California to pursue a career in film composition and orchestration.
Rossano's score for the new romantic film "Channels" (starring Nat Christian, Taylor Negron, comedian John Kassir and costarring Ed Asner & Joan Van Ark) has just earned him a nomination for the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Composing at the BSO Spirit International Film Music Festival in Ubeda, Spain.
Channels (2007) (Nat Christian) - Composer Scary Movie 2 (Keenan Ivory Wayans) ~ Composer - Additional Music The Great Gabble (Raffi Bagdasarian) - Composer
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman) ~ Marco Beltrami The Invisible (Daivd Goyer) ~ M. Beltrami D-War (Hyung-rae Shim) ~ Steve Jablonsky ... aka Dragon Wars Pulse (Jim Sonzero ) ~ Elia Cmiral The Breed (Nicholas Mastandrea) ~ Marcus Trumpp & Tom Mesmer Elephant Tales (Mario Andreacchio) ~ Frank Strangio Red Eye (Wes Craven) ~ M. Beltrami The Wedding Party (Dominique Deruddere) ~ Wolfram de Marco ... German Title "Die Bluthochzeit" Saved (Brian Donnelly) ~ Christophe Beck The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan) ~ C. Beck Big Fat Liar (Shawn Levy) ~ C. Beck The Crow: Salvation (Bharat Nalluri) ~ M. Beltrami
Tuesday With Morrie (Mick Jackson) Walking Across Egypt ( Arthur Allen Seidelman) Interstate 60 (Bob Gale) Roar (Rick Rosenthal) ~ Jon Ehrlich Video Game Music Sacrifice ~ Kevin Mathei
In reviewing Rossano's "The Redwoods," the Hal Leonard Corporation calls it "a bold and adventurous overture.... reminiscent of an epic film score ... a wealth of stylistic and emotional variety." Rossano's latest concert piece "Resplendent Glory" has been chosen for publication by the G. Schirmer company. May 25, 2007 - Rossano's composition, "The Redwoods" was performed at Carnegie Hall's concert series by the Leigh Wind Ensemble. April 10, 2007 - The Sarofim School of Fine Arts in Austin, TX presented the Pinnacle Brass Quintet's performance of Rossano's concert piece "Landscapes." March 2007 - Rossano's "Raise of the Son" had its Japanese debut by the Leternal Printemps Wind Orchestra, along with works by Ennio Morricone and Malcolm Arnold. On April 15 2007, the Eastern Mennonite University Wind Ensemble also included it in their spring concert. On Dec 16, 2006 "Raise of the Son" had its international debut in Germany by the Freiburger Blasorchester. April 29, 2007 - the St. Norbert College Concert Band featured Rossano's "The Redwoods." G. Schrimer Music has recently published this very popular composition for Wind and Brass Ensemble. Rossano's concert works were premiered in November 2005 by the Hofstra University Wind Ensemble. In July of 2004, Rossano composed music for the Los Angeles production of "Life x 3" by playwright, Yasmina Reza. Rossano's compositions have also been commissioned by the Nebraska Wind Symphony, The Amherst Chamber Orchestra, Trenton State College, SUNY at Buffalo, Grand Island Middle School, The Syracuse Youth Symphony, Point Pleasant Borough High School, North Tonawanda High School, Lockport City School District and the Erie County Wind Ensemble. The French "l'Orchestre d'Harmonie de la ville de Nantes (otherwise known as La Philhar de Nantes, performed "Raise of the Son" in its Sept 5, 2004 concert. DeHaske/Curnow published Rossano's stirring composition for wind ensemble, “RAISE OF THE SON”, which focuses on the drama and power of the Resurrection. In May 2003, the Oregon WInd Ensemble and Oregon Symphonic Band performed it. Following are the program notes: Galante likes music with variety and a lot of climaxes. “With ‘Raise,’ I wanted something to rise and fall and then rise again to exhibit a splendid reaffirmation of the work’s best moments.” There are two primary themes with a recapitulation of the first. The title is a play on words. Without seeing the words, one would think of the morning sunrise and transcendent sun’s rays. Upon seeing the words, however, one is immediately drawn to the Resurrection. Both are very stimulating and dramatic images and fit nicely into the overall feeling of the music. With its opening fanfare, the work evolves to an intense climax only to withdraw to a more melodic and flowing second theme. At precisely the right moment, the second theme builds once more a final uplifting climax as in raising of the son, or sun." May 30 2002, Rossano's concert work, "Paradise Under The Shadow" was performed by the Tad Wind Orchestra in Japan.
