Valerio Vigliar is a composer, pianist, singer, sound designer and producer. He has been practicing piano and voice since he was six years old. Attended the regular school system ending with a Classical Liceo diploma. He then studied ancient philosophy and linguistics at Rome University as well as Composition at the Rome Conservatory of Music from which, however, he was dismissed on the pretension of a necessary new class distribution. Following that, he went on studying privately with Maestro Emilio Rabaglino (himself a student of Vincenzo Scaramuzza), while pursuing his interest in sound engineering and recording. Orchestration, counterpoint, melody and improvisation have always been his main passions. For some years since 2002 he has worked with the Tda — Teatro delle Apparizioni, developing his research interest in the spatial dimension of sound, as well as in possible connections between electronic and acoustic sounds. In 2004, together with the poet and editor Michael Reynolds, created the band Liù, a project dealing with songs, spoken word, jazz rock and trip-hop. After a few years, he went on with his own personal project, more focused on instrumental neoclassical stuff and decostructed songs. In 2005 he started his contribution to cinema as a composer of music for films, writing a song for Aria, a short movie by Claudio Noce, who received the David di Donatello prize. From then on he worked with several directors, among which: the graphic novelist Gipi, Francesca Comencini, Alessandro Rossetto, Agostino Ferrente, Jacopo Quadri, Claudio Noce, Jacopo De Bartoldi, Nicola Bellucci, Stefano Sardo, Davide Minnella, Giacomo Durzi. In 2012, during the experimental season of Teatro Valle in Rome, he directed the play L’Eternità, based on one of his albums. Since 2013 he has taken part in the artistic research carried out by the Collettivo Angelo Mai and the Bluemotion theatre company; he has been involved in several projects as a composer, performer and artistic director, such as Party Hall, Long Playing, Safari Petrolio, Favole al telefono, Caffettiera Blu, Settimo Cielo, Not not not Enough Oxygen, Wasted. In 2013 he released the EP A.K.Ellis, a collaboration with the English songwriter Sylvie Lewis; a folk album recorded live in quartet with Valerio Vigliar, piano and voice; Sylvie Lewis, voice and ukulele; Matteo Pezzolet, contrabass; Roberto Angelini at the slide guitar. In 2016 he was commissioned by the "Associazione Ubu per Franco Quadri" to compose a song on the occasion of the prestigious theatre award Premio Ubu, to be given as a vinyl record to the award winners of each category. The title of the record is Qui è eternamente alba, featuring Roberto Dell'Era, Rodrigo D'Erasmo, Ilaria Graziano and Valerio Vigliar, with the artistic production by Bluemotion. In 2018 together with the poet and artist Marcello Murru he has written and produced an album due to be released end 2020. At present he is working on a new solo project.