Giulia Tagliavia embraces a multifaceted approach to composition, encompassing different musical styles and mediums,  from concert music to audiovisual and multidisciplinary projects.

She was born in Palermo, Italy, where she studied piano and composition, earning her bachelor degrees from Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory. Her work includes collaborations with artists in different media, from dance and video to literature. As a composer and pianist, she began her professional activity in 2008, accompanying the Italian writer Stefano Benni in several readings in theaters. In 2016, she and Benni wrote the music and the libretto of a chamber opera titled “La Gilda Furiosa, published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno, which premiered at Mart’s Auditorium in Rovereto. In 2015, she received the SIAE Award for her big band composition,“Fiume d’Acqua Dolci”. She then moved to Paris for two years, where she deepened her interest in concrete music and was selected by the composer Bruno Coulais for the atelier “Emergence Cinema”, supported by SACEM.

As part of the events held in Aarhus, Denmark, European Capital of Culture 2017, she composed the music for the dance performance “Polyopia”, choreographed by Julie Schmidt Andreasen, with visuals by the filmmaker Tamara Erde. In 2018, she was composer in residence at the Italian Culture Institute in Paris, where she worked on a composition for piano and electronics called “Coexistence” linked to the 70th anniversary of concrete music in France. She debuted this piece at the end of her residence.

In 2021, she was selected as Alumnus of Berlinale Talents. As a film-music composer, she has scored films that have premiered premiered at international festivals, such as Venice Giornate degli Autori (2024-2021), Berlinale 2023 (Encounters section), Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2018 (“Samouni Road,”, directed by Stefano Savona, won the “Œil d’or” as Best Documentary of the whole Cannes Film Festival), Rome Film Festival 2014 (Audience Award to "Looking for Kadija” directed by Francesco Raganato), Locarno Film Festival 2014, IDFA 2020. In 2024, she scored the Netflix original series “Adorazione” and previously the Netflix docuseries “Il Principe” (2023). She has also scored documentaries that have been broadcasted on Rai, France tv, Arte, HBO, and she made the live-scoring of 1916 masterpiece “Intolerance” by D.W. Griffith in a quartet at Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

As a piano-player, she collaborates with Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica resident ensemble “PMCE,” performing on the contemporary repertoire in international venues like Venice’s Biennale Musica (2021, 2018, 2017), Ravenna Festival (2023, 2018) and Romaeuropa Festival (2023, 2019). In 2024, the PMCE ensemble premiered her electro-acoustic composition “Stroboscopie” at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. That same year, she wrote the music for the dance performance “Riflessi” with dancer Camilla Monga, which premiered at Equilibrio, Rome’s contemporary international dance festival.

She also collaborates with the American Academy in Rome as Advisor in Musical Composition.