Michele Josia is an award-winning composer and Emmy Award winner whose work includes film scores, choral and orchestral works. More than just a composer, he is also a renowned choral conductor. With his ensembles he has won numerous first prizes and special prizes in national and international choral competitions (Skofja Loka, Maribor, Bad Ischl, Riva del Garda, Bratislava) as well as official recognition from the Government of Slovenia. He has been assistant conductor to Fabrizio Barchi, Stojan Kuret, Ursa Lah. With more than 20 years of experience, Josia has performed more than 190 concerts in Europe, including conducting and performing his own compositions at renowned international competitions (Maribor, Varna, Toulouse, Vittorio Veneto) as well as in major concert halls such as the Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, the “Cankariev Dom” in Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Mozarteum Concert Hall in Salzburg and the Beijing Philharmonic Hall in China. With his ensembles, as choirmaster, assistant conductor and composer of concert music and film scores, he has recorded 22 CDs. He has attended masterclasses in choral conducting with Stojan Kuret (Slovenia), Peter Hanke (Denmark) and Gary Graden (USA). He is a frequent jury member at composition competitions and international choral competitions, as well as a teacher of masterclasses in choral conducting and film music. A multifaceted musician, Josia combines his academic knowledge of orchestration, composition, human voice and choirs, with today’s new technology of digital instruments, which marry perfectly with visual images. To date Michele Josia has written 42 soundtracks including documentaries, short films, medium-length films and feature films. Josia has won 43 film industry awards, including an Emmy Award, numerous Global Music Awards and a World Entertainment Award, and 34 music awards as a composer and choir conductor. In addition, Michele Josia is the artistic director of the International Choral Competition “Musica Eterna Roma”, a member of the International Film Music Society of China, a member of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (2009-2019), a founding member and former vice president of the International Choral Conductors Federation (ICCF), a member of the European Film Academy for the European Film Awards and a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Science (Emmy) U.S.A.