Daniele Di Virgilio is an Italian Berlin-based composer, conductor and perpetual researcher. Conceiving composition as a multi-disciplinary and social-oriented expression, his music is inspired by a theatrical imagination and focuses on manipulating and transfiguring human archetypes and cultural references, culminating in the grotesque.

Daniele has been awarded by renowned composers such as Pascal Dusapin, Magnus Lindberg, Zygmunt Krauze and Stefano Gervasoni, and received prizes in several composition competitions, including the first edition of the International Competition "Michele Novaro", promoted by the Italian Deputy Chamber, the 3rd International Eduardas Balsys Young Composers Competition (Lithuania), the Cum Laude Composition Awards (Spain), the Seattle Composition International Award (USA), the Txistu Composition Competition EHTE 2026 (Basque Country), the Busan Choral Festival & Competition (South Korea), the Concursul Internațional de Compoziție „Remus Georgescu” and the XIX George Enescu Competition (Romania).

His music has been commissioned, performed and promoted by prominent ensembles and institutions, such as Mito Settembre Musica, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, JACK Quartet, Fidelio Trio, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Quatour Lontano, Divertimento Ensemble, Peter Eötvös Foundation, Vacuum Quartet, Riga “Ave Sol” Chamber Choir, mdi ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Ensemble Recherche, Barcelona Modern, impuls Festival.

Daniele studied at the Conservatoire of Turin (BA and MMus in Composition, BA in Conducting), at the University of Turin (BA in History, MM in Cinema, Theatre, Music and Media), at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Composition traineeship), at the Peter Eötvös Foundation (mentoring program) and at the Universität der Künste Berlin (concert exam). Among his teachers and mentors, he had Francesco Filidei, Ivan Fedele, Frank Bedrossian, Oscar Bianchi, George Lewis, Stefano Gervasoni, Richard Ayres, Beat Furrer and Elena Mendoza.

He had his compositions published by Babel Scores, Simon Verlag BW, Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Sinfonica Edizioni Musicali, Sconfinarte and Preludio Music.