Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi are two Italian composers, best known for scoring music for television and motion pictures.
They are not siblings: Pivio is a pseudonym for Roberto Pischiutta, while Aldo De Scalzi is Vittorio De Scalzi's brother, founding member of New Trolls, an Italian progressive rock band. Aldo himself has written and composed many songs for New Trolls, including "Faccia di Cane", in competition at the popular Italian song contest Sanremo Music Festival in 1985.
Moreover, in 1973 Aldo and Vittorio De Scalzi started together their own music studio, Studio G. and the record labels Magma and Grog Records, renowned for having hosted, during the 70s, the most talented bands from progressive rock Italian movement. From 1976 on, Aldo starts playing with the progressive rock band Picchio dal Pozzo.
Meanwhile, in 1979 Pivio founded along with Marco Odino, the new wave band Scortilla, famous for the hit "Fahrenheit 451", in competition at the Italian music contest Festivalbar, in 1984 edition. Graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering at Genova University, Pivio moved in Rome in the late 1980s. Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi started their collaboration during the 90s and throughout their career, have been in soundtrack work for various motion pictures, starting with Hamam directed by Ferzan Özpetek in 1997.
Moreover, in 1995 Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi started the side project Trancendental, developing their interest in Mediterranean world music, crossing Maghreb and Middle East musical traditions and in 2004 started the record label I dischi dell'espleta and the publishing company Creuza S.r.l.
The duo
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi met during the 1980s when Aldo happened to be the sound technician for a Scortilla's tour. Then, Aldo, produced "Fahrenheit 451", the Scortilla's album, released by Warner. The duo Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi were born officially in 1991. with their debut album Maccaia followed, in 1995, by Mirag in which they explore middle eastern sounds, which were developed more clearly in Deposizione ; in this album there are echoes of the duo's musical bias: progressive rock and new wave.Film work
When film producer and director Marco Risi and his wife and actress Francesca D'Aloja listened to the album Deposizione, the couple decided to contact Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi to get them involved with a film project: Hamam, the directorial debut by Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek, produced by Marco Risi and starring Francesca D'Aloja and Alessandro Gassman. The duo composed in twelve days the original motion picture soundtrack, inspired by Turkish musical tradition and melting ancient with more contemporary sounds. In 1997 Hamam was screened in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section at 50º Cannes Film Festival, where gained audience and film critics attention. Released in Italy by Italian film distribution company Filmauro, Hamam stayed in theaters for almost three months and the original soundtrack sold more than 300,000 copies. For Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi it was the very beginning of a long career as composers for motion pictures. Among the others, they scored for Outlaw, I giardini dell'Eden, Harem Suare, Casomai, El Alamein – The Line of Fire, Piano 17, Barbarossa, Complici del silenzio, We Can Do That, La peggiore settimana della mia vita, The Butterfly Room, Razzabastarda and for TV series Distretto di Polizia, L'ispettore Coliandro and Medicina generale. The duo has had a long association with directors Manetti Bros., composing the music for, among the others, , L'ispettore Coliandro, The Arrival of Wang, Paura 3D, Song 'e Napule and the awarded musical Love and Bullets (2017 film).Filmography
| Year | Film | Director |
| 1997 | Hamam | Ferzan Özpetek |
| 1998 | Le faremo tanto male | Pino Quartullo |
| 1998 | The Scent of the Night | Claudio Caligari |
| 1998 | Viola Kisses Everybody | Giovanni Veronesi |
| 1998 | The Second Wife | Ugo Chiti |
| 1998 | The Garden of Eden | Alessandro D'Alatri |
| 1998 | Elvjs & Merilijn | Armando Manni |
| 1998 | Il delitto di via Monte Parioli | Antonio Bonifacio |
| 1998 | Marriages | Cristina Comencini |
| 1999 | I fobici | Giancarlo Scarchilli |
| 1999 | I fetentoni | Alessandro Di Robilant |
| 1999 | Harem Suare | Ferzan Özpetek |
| 1999 | Outlaw | Enzo Monteleone |
| 2001 | The Dangerous Sex Date | Maria Martinelli |
| 2001 | Lupo mannaro | Antonio Tibaldi |
| 2001 | Nella terra di nessuno | Gianfranco Giagni |
| 2001 | Blek Giek | Enrico Caria |
| 2001 | Se fossi in te | Giulio Manfredonia |
| 2002 | Turno di notte | Carmen Giardina |
| 2002 | Nati stanchi | Dominick Tambasco |
| 2002 | The Best Day of My Life | Cristina Comencini |
| 2002 | The Boys from El Alamein | Enzo Monteleone |
| 2002 | El Alamein: The Line of Fire | Enzo Monteleone |
| 2002 | Casomai | Alessandro D'Alatri |
| 2003 | Uncut | Jonathan Zarantonello |
| 2003 | Per sempre | Alessandro Di Robilant |
| 2004 | E' già ieri | Giulio Manfredonia |
| 2004 | Three Days of Anarchy | Vito Zagarrio |
| 2005 | The Person de Leo N. | Alberto Vendemmiati |
| 2006 | Ice on Fire | Umberto Marino |
| 2006 | Seven Kilometers from Jerusalem | Claudio Malaponti |
| 2006 | The Stone Merchant | Renzo Martinelli |
| 2006 | Piano 17 | Manetti Bros. |
| 2006 | Maradona, the Hand of God | Marco Risi |
| 2007 | Vedi Napoli e poi muori | Enrico Caria |
| 2007 | Dark resurrection(additional music) | Angelo Licata |
| 2007 | Last minute Marocco | Francesco Falaschi |
| 2007 | Carnera - The Walking Mountain | Renzo Martinelli |
| 2008 | The Early Bird Catches the Worm | Francesco Patierno |
| 2008 | We Can Do That | Giulio Manfredonia |
| 2009 | Complici del silenzio | Stefano Incerti |
| 2009 | Hollywood on the Tiber | Marco Spagnoli |
| 2009 | Barbarossa - Sword of War | Renzo Martinelli |
| 2009 | Cavie | Manetti Bros. |
| 2010 | Left by the ship | Alberto Vendemmiati, Emma Rossi Landi |
| 2011 | Qualunquemente | Giulio Manfredonia |
| 2011 | L'infiltré | Giacomo Battiato |
| 2011 | Questo mondo è per te | Francesco Falaschi |
| 2011 | Some Say No | Gianbattista Avellino |
| 2011 | Hollywood invasion | Marco Spagnoli |
| 2011 | Box Office – 3D | Ezio Greggio |
| 2011 | L'era legale | Enrico Caria |
| 2011 | The Arrival of Wang | Manetti Bros. |
| 2011 | Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane | Marco Spagnoli |
| 2011 | The Worst Week of My Life | Alessandro Genovesi |
| 2011 | Seven Footprints to Satan | Benjamin Christensen |
| 2012 | A wild awakening | Fulvio Ottaviano |
| 2012 | The Butterfly Room | Jonathan Zarantonello |
| 2012 | All'ultima spiaggia | Gianluca Ansanelli |
| 2012 | Giuliano Montaldo - Four Times Twenty | Marco Spagnoli |
| 2012 | E la vita continua | Pino Quartullo |
| 2012 | Fratelli minori | Carmen Giardina |
| 2012 | The Worst Christmas of My Life | Alessandro Genovesi |
| 2012 | The Mongrel | Alessandro Gassman |
| 2013 | Anna Magnani a Hollywood | Marco Spagnoli |
| 2013 | Essere Riccardo... e gli altri | Giancarlo Scarchilli |
| 2013 | Monk with a camera | Guido Santi and Tina Mascara |
| 2014 | Amori elementari | Sergio Basso |
| 2014 | Eppideis | Matteo Andreolli |
| 2014 | Song'e Napule | Manetti Bros. |
| 2014 | The sweepers | Igor Maltagliati |
| 2015 | Le frise ignoranti | Antonello De Leo and Pietro Loprieno |
| 2015 | Game therapy | Ryan Travis |
| 2016 | Ustica | Renzo Martinelli |
| 2016 | L'uomo che non cambio la storia | Enrico Caria |
| 2016 | The long march | Sergio Basso |
| 2017 | The startup | Alessandro D'Alatri |
| 2017 | Love and Bullets (2017 film) | Manetti Bros. |
| 2018 | Favola | Sebastiano Mauri |
| 2018 | Il tuttofare | Valerio Attanasio |
| 2018 | Restiamo amici | Antonello Grimaldi |
| 2019 | Un'avventura | Marco Danieli |
| 2020 | Tell Me Who I Am | Sergio Basso |
| 2020 | Thou Shalt Not Hate | Mauro Mancini |
| 2021 | Il silenzio grande | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2021 | Diabolik | Manetti Bros. |
| 2022 | Belli Ciao | Gennaro Nunziante |
| 2022 | Il filo invisibile | Marco Simon Puccioni |
| 2022 | Io & Spotty | Cosimo Gomez |
| 2022 | Diabolik 2 - Ginko all'attacco | Manetti Bros. |
Pivio solo filmography
| Year | Film | Director |
| 1996 | Cold ground | Guido Santi |
| 2001 | Non dire gatto | Giorgio Tirabassi |
| 2005 | Il bastardo e l'handicappato | Giampaolo Morelli |
| 2007 | Sleeping around | Marco Carniti |
| 2007 | Dora | Sergio Basso |
| 2012 | Paura – 3D | Manetti Bros. |
| 2014 | Macabrus | Manetti Bros. |
| 2014 | Murder Inc. | Francesco Bovino |
| 2016 | It's fine anyway | Marcello Saurino and Pivio |
| 2019 | The wisdom tooth | Gregorio Sassoli |
| 2020 | Il caso Braibanti | Carmen Giardina and Massimiliano Palmese |
| 2021 | Nothin' at all | Matteo Malatesta |
| 2022 | B-Movie | Matteo Malatesta |
Film TV and TV-series
Theatre
| Year | Play | Director |
| 1999 | K2 | Edoardo Erba |
| 2001 | Junun | Fadhel Jaibi |
| 2002 | La forza dell'abitudine | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2003 | Le crociate viste dagli arabi | Consuelo Barillaro |
| 2004 | Infernetto | Giorgio Tirabassi |
| 2006 | Corps otages | Fadhel Jaibi |
| 2008/2009 | La parola ai giurati | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2010 | L’ebreo | Enrico Maria Lamanna |
| 2010 | Roman e il suo cucciolo | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2010 | Immanuel Kant | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2013 | Riccardo III | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2014 | 7 minuti | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2015 | Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2015 | La pazza della porta accanto | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2018 | Fronte del porto | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2019 | Il silenzio grande | Alessandro Gassmann |
| 2020 | After the end | Marco Puccioni |
| 2022 | Racconti disumani | Alessandro Gassmann |