Mario Grigorov

Mario Grigorov is a renowned composer, pianist, and improviser born in Bulgaria. He showed an exceptional talent for music from an early age and went to the Sofia Conservatory at a very young age. He continued his studies in four countries, becoming an accomplished concert pianist and improviser in various styles like jazz, classical, and electronic music. Mario's parents were both accomplished musicians, with his father being a concert trumpeter and his mother a concert pianist. In 1968, the Sofia Conservatory made an exception to their age requirement and allowed five-year-old Mario to begin his classical studies. Mario has been living in the United States for the past 20 years, during which he has composed music for films and signed with Warner Brothers Records.

He extensively toured North America and Europe as a solo pianist, supporting renowned musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Charlie Haden, and Béla Fleck. In 2000, Mario began composing music for the screen in the United States and is best known for his musical scores on films by director Lee Daniels. They worked together on Shadowboxer (2005), Tennessee (2008), Precious (2009), and The Paperboy (2012). In 2005, Mario opened his own commercial music company called Siblings Music, Inc. Mario's work in the film industry also includes his score for Patang, a film by Indian director Prashant Bhargava Prashant Bhargava was a well-known Indian and Amer >> Read More... , which premiered at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.

He also co-wrote an original song with J.K. Rowling for Warner Brothers' Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, after meeting with Harry Potter director David Yates David Yates is a British short film, movie and TV >> Read More... in 2014. Apart from film scoring, Mario has composed music for television, including the eerie yet beautiful score for Lifetime's Original Movie series, Flowers in the Attic, and its sequel Petals on the Wind. He has also worked on international film scores, including The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell by New Zealand director Brendan Donovan and Uruguayan director Leonardo Ricagni's films, for which he won the Best Original Score award at the Hamptons Film Festival. Mario has received several awards throughout his career, including the Best Original Score and Special Recognition awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 1998, and the Festival Prize for Best Music Feature at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival in 2013 for his work on Musical Chairs Click to look into! >> Read More... (2011).