Massimo “Massi” Sammi is a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. 

After studying classical guitar at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory in Genoa, he served as a trumpet player in the “Fanfara Dei Bersaglieri” Italian Army Band, where he spent 10 months touring Italy and Europe.

In 2007 he won a scholarship to enroll at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying weekly with pianist Charlie Banacos and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, graduating with honors in jazz performance and composition. He was then accepted into the New York University’s Master’s in Scoring for Film and Multimedia, where he kept honing his craft scoring student movies and conducting the program’s orchestra and chamber ensemble scoring sessions.

Moving to Los Angeles in 2014, he enrolled in the Certificate Program in Film Scoring at UCLA Extension, and through the school’s connections he landed several jobs assisting composers actively working in film and TV.

A colorful blend of quirkiness, sonic experimentation and melodic sensibility, Sammi’s style is both unique and versatile. As a result of an extensive on-the-job training writing hundreds of minutes of music as lead and additional composer, his writing credits include animation series, documentaries, thrillers, romantic comedies, holiday features, westerns, dramas, super-hero parodies and independent shorts.

His latest score can be heard in “How to Fall in Love by the Holidays”, starring Teri Hatcher, currently streaming on the Roku Channel.

A double citizen of U.S.A. and Italy, Massi maintains his studio in Glendale, California.