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Biography
Emmy-winning composer, songwriter, and music producer Giona Ostinelli is known for his work on massive IP. His score for Netflix's One Piece earned him an Emmy win for Best Original Song ("My Sails Are Set" feat. Aurora), along with two Emmy nominations, including Best Music Direction & Composition, and an IFMCA nomination for Best Original Score for Television. Giona expanded his acclaimed work on One Piece with One Piece: Into The Grand Line, further evolving the series’ musical universe.
Giona has worked with the likes of Aurora, The HU, Grammy-winning Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Bad Wolves, Au/Ra, Tarja, Sophia James, Marcin, Leo P, and more.
His work on Netflix's The Witcher produced "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher," which soared to No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Song Sales chart, No. 8 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart, and broke into The Billboard 200 - becoming a cultural phenomenon and viral sensation, even finding a playful home in Tesla's software. Giona’s soundtrack album charted on Billboard's Top 20 Current Albums, Top 20 Album Sales, Top 10 Soundtrack Albums, and rose to No. 1 on iTunes in every major territory worldwide, amassing over half a billion streams. He also headlined the 2021 Krakow Film Music Festival, performing “The Witcher Suite” live with a symphony orchestra to a sold-out crowd. Following the success of his Witcher soundtrack, Giona signed to Sony Music, releasing his solo album “A Mighty Heart Beating Like A Drum.”
Giona’s work spans Millennium's Red Sonja reboot, based on the Marvel comic book icon; the NBC drama The Thing About Pam starring Oscar winner Renée Zellweger; Matthew Weiner's The Romanoffs for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Aaron Eckhart, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn, and Diane Lane; Blumhouse's thriller Sacred Lies with Juliette Lewis; Paramount's adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist; among other standout series and films.