Biography

Matteo Franceschini, aka TOVEL, is a Paris-based Italian composer, poly-instrumentalist and performer. Silver Lion for Music at the 2019 Venice Biennale, SACD Prix Nouveau Talent Musique, he writes symphonic works, operas, film music and produces electro performances.

Matteo Franceschini’s music takes us into a real timeless universe shaking up the codes of classical and electronic, in a jubilant encounter between written creation (the score) and performance. Dreamlike, pulsing, explosive music that never stops changing.

His interdisciplinary research brings together composing, staging, and multimedia perspectives. Matteo mixes acoustic sounds with digital software and modular synthesizer. The choice of atypical instrumentation often represents one of the main aesthetic driving forces of his music: the necessity of pulling different languages together by following the rules of contrast and fusion.

Matteo Franceschini’s music offers a wider spectrum of emotion and depth. The rhythms, melodies, and harmonies he uses are complex but nevertheless pulsing. His intent is to develop new aspects in the field of performance, with the purpose of defining the true creative act as a unique and organic coalescence between the processes of composition and performance.

He composed the score for the film Vermiglio, which represented Italy’s official submission for the 2025 Oscars and was nominated for the Golden Globes. Matteo has received commissions from leading institutions such as La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Wigmore Hall, Venice Biennale, Ircam-Centre Pompidou and Opéra Grand Avignon.