Gianni Onori is a composer, lyricist, and writer working at the intersection of music, storytelling, and atmosphere.

He trained at the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. During his time in New York, he developed a body of work rooted in dramatic structure, character-led storytelling, and a deep understanding of the relationship between music and narrative.

His writing explores the space between the mythic and the intimate. Drawing on influences ranging from musical theatre and folk traditions to ritual, symbolism, and the natural world, his work often centres on transformation, longing, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. There is a particular interest in atmosphere—music as environment—as much as music as song, with sound used to evoke emotional landscapes as vividly as text or image.

Stylistically, his compositions move between the cinematic and the minimal: layered textures, choral elements, and harmonic stillness sit alongside moments of direct, lyrical clarity. His work resists strict genre, instead favouring a fluid, interdisciplinary approach that allows each piece to find its own language.

At the core of his practice is a belief that music is not only something to be heard, but something to be felt spatially and emotionally—a space the listener can enter, inhabit, and return to.