About Gabriella

Gabriella is a composer, pianist, and lyricist newly based in West L.A. As a lifelong musician and perhaps an overly-enthusiastic consumer of film and television, she is thrilled to bring her music into these mediums to help tell the story. She started studying classical piano at age five and never stopped, adding guitar and vocals into the mix along the way. She loves writing for orchestral and acoustic instrumentation, especially in tandem with more contemporary and experimental production approaches.

Some of her recent film score highlights include Fern (New Young Filmmakers Los Angeles, Chicago Cinema Femme), Dear Yeda (Lisboa Indie Film Festival, El Encuentro: The Latino Film Experience, All the Moves International Film Festival, etc), Jalopy (L.A. Shorts Fest, Best Student Film: Denali Film Festival, Garden Route International Film Festival), and Sprout (Silver Winner: Best Student Film at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation, and Technology, Montreal International Animation Film Festival, etc).

Gabriella was selected for the inaugural Composer Filmmaker Accelerator program at the Vancouver International Film Festival (2023). At VIFF, she collaborated with director Ana Valina and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, who recorded and performed her piece”Cabin Games.” She was also a Society of Composers and Lyricists mentee (2022-23) and a participant in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop at Columbia University (2023).

Beyond her classical background, Gabriella’s POV is equally influenced by the six years she spent writing and producing within the Chicago comedy scene (The Second City, iO Chicago) as well as devised children's theater (PlayMakers Laboratory). During that time, she wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the award-winning Lucky: A Musical (Winner: Best Lyrics, Most Promising, and Cast Having the Most Fun - Chicago Musical Theatre Festival 2019).

Gabriella completed her Masters in Music Composition: Screen-Scoring at NYU and holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Miami. Upcoming projects include the score for The Feast of Magical Small Things by Sarah Frasco, her first video game score for Parts of the Elephant, and arrangements and music direction for Ingénue at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024.