Teho Teardo

Teho Teardo is a musician, composer and sound designer with an interest in developing the possible connections between electronic and acoustic sounds.

He wrote and produced three albums and two eps with Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende
Neubauten). Collaborated with Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), Lydia Lunch, Cop Shoot Cop, Alexander Balanescu, Wire, Mick Harris, Mario Brunello, Jim Thirlwell, Erik Friedlander and
many others.

Teho is also one of the most active Italian composers for cinema and has created
many soundtracks for renowned directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino, Daniele Vicari, Andrea Molaioli, Gabriele Salvatores, Roberto Faenza.

His soundtracks have won him many major awards and great critical acclaim. The
compilation album Music, film. Music includes incidental film music from the international hit and Cannes jury prize winner Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino, for which he also won the David di Donatello Prize, Italy’s most prestigious prize, as well as the Ennio Morricone Prize at the Italian Film Festival.
Morricone himself presented the prize and said of Teho’s music:  ‘Experience tells me that sooner or later those who seek will find and in the passages between searching and finding there are
important moments, moments such as the ones we hear on this beautiful album’.

With actor Elio Germano Teho realized several theatre plays: Paradiso XXXIII, Viaggio al termine della notte, Il sogno di una cosa, la guerra com’è.

Teho created the music for several plays by Enda Walsh, Ballyturk, Arlington, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, Medicine. He won 2 Irish Theatre Awards for those works and had several nominations.

Other theatre work includes Ingiuria, a collaboration with Socìetas raffaello Sanzio, the Balanescu Quartet and Blixa Bargeld.