Tony Berchmans

Brazilian pianist, producer and composer Tony Berchmans is the author of the book “The Movie’s Music - All you’d like to know about film music”, one of the very few books related to the subject written in portuguese. Great film music lover, since 1992 he’s been producing and composing for audiovisual projects. In 2007 he was the curator of an important film music festival in Brazil that has been joined by the most relevant names of this industry such as Ennio Morricone and Gustavo Santaolalla. Former post-graduation professor of film music for TV and Cinema, he frequently presents lectures and courses about music in important cultural organizations, and for 10 years has been voting member of WSA (World Soundtrack Awards - Belgium). In 2011 he created his CINEPIANO Tony Berchmans concert, and since than he has been performing more than 190 times around Brazil and in some european events such as NATTJazz (Traditional Jazz festival in Norway), TIFF (Transilvania International Film Festival, in Romania), Wide Skies Film Festival (Hexham, England) and Cinema Museum, in London. In 2018 started his youtube channel "CINEPIANO Sessions", that presents a series of new arrangements for famous movie songs, with special guests: www.youtube.com/cinepiano. Today he lives in Milan (Italy) where he composes original music for audiovisual projects and develops new live multimedia performances.