Giuseppe Ricciolino is a guitarist and composer from Italy. Born in Naples in 1986, he is currently based in Rome where he lives and works as a composer, sessionman and guitar teacher. He also plays in the hard rock band ‘Steel Eighties’, while carrying on his own instrumental projects. In 2008, he wrote and performed the soundtrack of the film ‘Panama’ (which received awards in several film festivals, such as the New York Independent Film & Video Festival, the British Film Festival and the Los Angeles ones, and the International Egypt Film Festival, all in 2009). Since 2010, as sessionman, he has collaborated on several projects such as the one by La Elle (an Italian pop singer), the Orchestra Ritmico-sinfonicaGiovanileNazionale (Italian National Youth orchestra for classical and modern music), HOT (Alternative rock band), Black Hearts (a musical company which has produced tribute shows on Michael Jackson and ’50s Rock’n’Roll culture). In In 2011 he graduated in Communication from the University Roma Tre at the faculty of Arts and Humanities a dissertation on the history, communication and language of the modern guitar. In In 2013 he completed the Berklee College Of Music’s MOOC course “introduction to Music Production”