Giulia Tagliavia is a pianist and composer whose work spans classical and contemporary music, electronic music, film scores and music for dance. Born in Palermo, she studied piano and composition and graduated from the "Alessandro Scarlatti" Conservatory. In film, she has scored works shown at international festivals such as the Berlinale, the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes, the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and the Locarno Film Festival. She has also scored films and series for Netflix and Amazon Studios, and documentaries broadcast on Rai, France TV, Arte and HBO.
Over the years she has performed as a pianist with ensembles such as PMCE, the resident ensemble of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. With them she has appeared at international festivals including the Venice Biennale Musica, Ravenna Festival and Romaeuropa. She was composer-in-residence at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. There she presented Coexistence, her project for piano and electronics, marking the 70th anniversary of the birth of musique concrète in France.
In contemporary dance, she has written and performed her own music for festivals such as Bolzano Danza and Rome's Equilibrio festival, and for events in Aarhus during its year as European Capital of Culture in 2017. She lives and works in Rome.