Bio
Giorgio Costantini is a Venice-born pianist, composer and producer. Today, piano music is at the centre of his work: melodic writing that moves between contemporary neoclassical language, cinematic atmosphere, electronic elements and a close attention to sound, timbre and space.
Over the years, the piano has gradually become the meeting point of very different musical experiences — studio work, pop music, synthesizers, orchestral arrangements, live performance and instrumental composition. Melody has remained the common thread.
His music released under his own name has now passed 10 million streams, reaching listeners across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Albums such as PianoPianoForte, Universound and Dreamers reflect different stages of this path, from intimate piano writing to broader arrangements involving orchestra and electronics.
THE JOURNEY
Costantini began his professional career in the early 1980s. As a keyboardist, arranger and studio musician, he contributed to more than forty recordings and performed in over 1,200 concerts, touring in Italy and abroad with artists including Renato Zero, Fiorella Mannoia, Michele Zarrillo and Peppino Di Capri.
For several years he also worked as a keyboardist with RAI, Italy’s national public broadcaster, performing in television orchestras for programmes including the Sanremo Music Festival, Sanremo Giovani, Domenica In and Scommettiamo che…?. In that role he accompanied international guest artists during their Italian television appearances, including Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Bolton, José Carreras, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie and Gloria Gaynor.
His live work also took him to venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Sporting d’Été in Monte Carlo, before his own music gradually moved to the foreground.
With PianoPianoForte, originally developed as an independent project and promoted largely through the Internet, Costantini began to establish his work as a composer in its own right. In 2009 the album reached the upper positions of the Italian iTunes charts, while “Elegia” reached No. 1 among singles.
His music was subsequently licensed in Taiwan and South Korea, and in 2009 he travelled to Taiwan for two concerts, including a solo piano performance at the National Concert Hall in Taipei.
PianoPianoForte was followed by Universound and Dreamers, albums in which piano increasingly met orchestra, electronics and different approaches to sound.
Universound was mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London and includes “Alba Mundi”, a composition whose musical material was derived from the orbital periods of the planets in the Solar System. An alternative version of the album was also produced entirely at 432 Hz.
In 2020, the 432 Hz and 440 Hz versions of “Life”, from Universound, were used in a randomized clinical trial examining the effects of music tuning on dental anxiety and salivary cortisol. The study was published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science and indexed in PubMed.
In 2016 another composition, “Flow”, became the soundtrack to a short film directed by Costantini himself. The film received the “Venezia una città” award at the Francesco Pasinetti Festival and was subsequently presented during events connected with the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
Both PianoPianoForte and Universound were included among MainlyPiano’s annual selections, in 2006 and 2011 respectively, while Costantini’s compositions have continued to receive airplay from international radio stations devoted to contemporary piano music.
Alongside his solo work, another part of his musical history has remained active. Costantini is co-founder, keyboardist, composer and producer of Plustwo.
Their first single, “Melody”, originally released in 1983 and later reconstructed and re-recorded, found an unexpected new audience almost four decades after its first release. The song became a global viral phenomenon in 2020, eventually passing 1.5 billion TikTok post views and entering Spotify’s Viral Charts in thirteen countries, reaching No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 3 in the United States. In 2026 the Plustwo project continued with a new recording of “Survivor”.
Piano and synthesizers, pop and instrumental music, orchestra and studio technology have therefore remained different parts of the same musical path.
Today, the piano is where these experiences most naturally come together: in melody, harmony and sound.
