Eclectic and versatile composer and songwriter for film, television, and media, Adriano Aponte grew up in Napoli (Italy) and has been always fascinated by the craft of film scoring and its tradition. After his studies in piano and composition in Italy, where he also had the opportunity to study with acclaimed composer and conductor Franco Piersanti at the Philharmonic Academy of Rome, Adriano moved to the U.S. and then Spain to hone his musical skills.

Awarded the European Scholarship, Aponte studied Film Scoring and Conducting at Berklee College of Music in Boston and then received his Master's degree in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games (Summa Cum Laude) from Berklee Valencia Campus where he also worked as Music Technology Graduate Assistant. He is a former Professor in Composition for Screen at Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Aponte has been recently selected as a BAFTA Connect Member and is also an ACMF member.

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Recent works include the score for the British-African film The Backway (starring BAFTA nominated actor Babou Ceesay), the successful Rai primetime TV docu-series Nuovi Eroi (hosted by Veronica Pivetti), Rai primetime docu-TV-show Presa Diretta (hosted by Riccardo Iacona), and the Rai primetime factual-TV show Così è la vita (hosted by Francesca Fialdini). He wrote the soundtrack for the feature film The Truth (starring Francesco Montanari) available on Amazon Prime Video with the score recorded at Magyar Studio 22 in Budapest and performed by the Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra, the Giffoni Film Festival, and Nastri d'Argento winning docu-film Sad Letters (starring Leo Gullotta), and the Rai short feature film Fame (starring Ludovica Nasti) winner of the XV Jerry Goldsmith Awards (2023) for Best Music in a Feature Short Film.  Aponte scored the animated short movie Boarding the Ark with the soundtrack recorded at Abbey Road Studios (Studio 1) in London, conducting members of the English Session Orchestra.