Valerio Vigliar is a composer, pianist, singer, sound designer and producer based in Rome, Italy. He studied ancient philosophy and linguistics at Sapienza University of Rome. He has been playing and improvising since he was a child and basically has a self-taught approach to music. Orchestration, counterpoint, melody and improvisation have always been his main passions. In 2002 he began to work with theatre productions, developing his research interest in the spatial dimension of sound, as well as in connecting electronic and acoustic sounds. In 2004 he founded the band Liu, together with the poet and editor Michael Reynolds, a project dealing with songs, spoken word, jazz rock and trip-hop. After a few years he went on with his solo project, more focused on instrumental neoclassical stuff and deconstructed songs. In 2005 he started his contribution to cinema as a film score composer, working with several directors, among which: Mario Martone, Giovanni Piperno, Francesco Costabile, the graphic novelist Gipi, Francesca Comencini, Alessandro Rossetto, Agostino Ferrente, Jacopo Quadri, Claudio Noce, Jacopo De Bartoldi, Nicola Bellucci, Maha Haj, Stefano Sardo, Davide Minnella, Giacomo Durzi. Since 2013 he has been taking part in the artistic research carried out by Collettivo Angelo Mai and 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, Tiresias, Lemnos, Pilade, Roberto Zucco. He currently teaches Applied Music Composition at the Conservatory of Terni and is involved in various cinematographic and theatrical productions.