Massimiliano Vizzini is an Italian composer and multimedia artist based in the Netherlands, working across concert music, opera, mixed-media and electronic music. His pieces have been performed throughout Europe by leading institutions and ensembles.
 

He is currently pursuing a PhD on Audio-Video Counterpoint and Intermediality in Mixed-Media Composition at the Conservatories of Ferrara, Pescara, Udine and Trieste. He holds a Master of Music in Classical Composition from Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam, where he studied with Robin de Raaff and Paul M. van Brugge, following a Master's in Film and Game Music at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and a Bachelor's in Composition and Counterpoint with Marco Betta at the Conservatorio di Palermo. He has taken masterclasses with Carola Bauckholt, Liisa Hirsch, Juste Janulyte, Dimitris Maronidis, Tomi Räisänen, Matthew Shlomowitz, Gundega Šmite, Miroslav Srnka, Simon Steen-Andersen, Jukka Tiensuu, Mārtiņš Viļums and Lotta Wennäkoski.
 

He is the artistic producer and A/V performer of FES ensemble, a new-music ensemble based in Rotterdam dedicated to commissioning original works and to collaborative processes with living composers. With FES, he is composer-in-residence at the IEMA Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, and participating in the Interaction 2.0 festival, organised by Spółdzielnia Muzyczna in Kraków.
 

In 2026 he received the Music Current commission prize, leading to a new work for Dublin Sound Lab, and the Belle van Zuylen Prijs for the artistic research on his film-opera This is not my U******E. He was composer-in-residence at BE Connect with Ensemble Fractales, with a new work for the MIM in Brussels, and at Gradus II of the Reggio Parma Festival. Works were premiered by Divertimento Ensemble, Codarts Symphony Orchestra, MAX BRAND Ensemble, NEMØ Ensemble at KlexosLab Festival, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble at Synesthesia Lab, Pedro Pablo Cámara at MIXTUR Festival, and at the Tilburg Sax Summit.
 

In 2025 he was composer-in-residence with the Latvian Radio Choir in Riga, took part in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse under Miroslav Srnka and Simon Steen-Andersen, received both ULYSSES Journey artist grants and the Jonge Musici Fonds of Het Cultuurfonds, and won the Narrazioni Parallele call for scores in Turin. Works were premiered by the Avanti Chamber Orchestra, MotoContrario ensemble, DoelenEnsemble at Dag van de Componist, Ensemble Fractales at MIXTUR Festival, Vlaams Radiokoor at SoundMine, and at Musiikin aika and Bled Contemporary Music Week.
 

In 2024 he made his debut in music theatre with Goldilocks in Amsterdam, a one-act operetta commissioned by the Dutch National Opera for the Opera Forward Festival. The same year, he won the Gaudeamus Festival commission prize with Fantaisie-im(prompt)u, premiered by Zubin Kanga at TivoliVredenburg, a collaboration documented in the Cyborg Soloists research project of the Centre for Audiovisual Research at Royal Holloway, University of London.