Massimo Bonelli

Massimo Bonelli is an Italian music manager, producer, and publisher, founder and director of iCompany, a cultural enterprise based in Rome.

Since 2015, he has been the artistic director and general organizer of the May Day Concert in Rome, one of the largest free music events in Europe, broadcast live nationwide.

He is the creator and artistic curator of the festival “Ciao – Lucio Dalla” (aired on Rai 1, Italy’s national public broadcaster, in 2024 and 2025) and, since 2018, he has overseen the production of the Fabrizio De André Award, dedicated to one of Italy’s most celebrated songwriters.

He is also the artistic and musical curator of the Festival of Civil Economy (since 2019) and the creator-producer of Casa SIAE in Sanremo (since 2018), in connection with Italy’s famous Sanremo Festival.

In 2025, he served as artistic coordinator and Rai representative for the Notte della Taranta Concert (broadcast live on Rai 3, another channel of Italy’s public television) and was the artistic director of the first San Marino Song Contest (live on RTV, simulcast on RaiPlay and Rai Radio2).

In 2024 and 2025, he directed Safety Love (Pesaro and Gorizia, Rai 1), a project combining music and social awareness.

He is also the artistic director of the Youth! Argentario Festival, dedicated to emerging talent.

He has overseen the executive production of the TaoBuk Gala 2024 (Rai 1), the artistic direction of the Cous Cous Fest in Sicily (2022–2024), and the Kaulonia Tarantella Festival (2010–2016, 2022, and 2023), both central to Italy’s folk and world music scene.

For television, since 2020 he has produced for Rai the televised version of the historic Tenco Award, Italy’s most prestigious songwriting prize, and he created the programs “Tonica” and “Magazzini Musicali.”

He is the author of La musica attuale (ROI Edizioni, 2020) and PLAY (ROI Edizioni, 2025), and he wrote the preface to the Italian edition of There’s Nothing Like This – The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift (Egea, 2025).