Sebastian Plano

Sebastian Plano (born 1985) is an Argentinian cellist, composer and producer based in Berlin, Germany. His 2019 album Verve was nominated for Best New Age Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. He has composed the soundtrack for the video game Everything alongside Ben Lukas Boysen.

Early life and career Sebastian Plano was born into a musical family in Rosario, Argentina. With both his parents in the city's symphonic orchestra, he was influenced early on by classical music and also by tango through his grandfather, a locally renowned bandoneon player. Plano began playing the cello at age seven, and writing music when he was 12. Soon after his early composition - a four-movement orchestral piece - premiered at Rosario's Opera House in 2008, interest in his work started to show.

At the age of 17, he was among the 4 young musicians to be selected worldwide for a full scholarship at the United World College of the Adriatic, allowing him to study with the acclaimed Trio di Trieste and Cellist Enrico Bronzi. He continued his education in the United States, after having been awarded consecutively full scholarships at the Boston Conservatory and the San Francisco Conservatory. Alongside his classical upbringing, Plano's enthusiasm and exploration around electronic music - often naming Vangelis as a formative early influence - developed into a hobby. In August of the same year he relocated to Berlin, where he began reconstructing the lost pieces leading to the release of his EP Novel in 2017 was long-listed for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards, making it the first video game trailer to qualify for the Oscars. That same year, Plano signed to Universal Music's Mercury KX label.

In 2018, Plano participated in the Keynvor Project against sewage pollution, for which he wrote a three-track EP incorporating sounds from the Atlantic Ocean. The EP, titled Preservation, was released by Mercury KX, shortly before the release of Verve in 2019 Impetus (2013) Preservation (with KEYNVOR; 2018) High Tide (Marco Calvani; 2024)

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