After been awarded the diploma on piano at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Turin, and completing his studies at the Accademia Internazionale di Musica in Novara (Italy), Giacomo Platini studied composition with Ivan Fedele at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Como (Italy) and at the Conservatoire National de Région in Strasbourg (France). He attended Masterclasses held by Niccolò Castiglioni, Gyorgy Ligeti, Betsy Jolas, Magnus Lindberg and Michael Jarrell. He was selected by the I.R.C.A.M. (Paris) to attend the Stage of Computer Music, and courses of the “Académie d’Été”. His compositions have been performed at the Cité Internationale Universitaire of Paris, at the Théatre Des Lisières and Italian Cultural Institute of Strasbourg, at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, at the Museum of Art of Lugano (Switzerland), at the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea of Madrid, at the “MILANO MUSICA” Festival in Milan, at the MUSICAHORA Festival of La Serena (Cile), at the Sala Mozart in Bologna – ‘Città Europee della Cultura 2000’ -, in New York for the exhibition “Pellizza da Volpedo e i divisionisti piemontesi” (Guggenheim Museum) and at the Jack Space of Brooklyn, and in China (PRC) at the Electronic Music Week of Shanghai 2011. His music has been performed by musicians such as Mario Caroli, Françoise Kubler, Henri-Michel Garzia, the Quartetto d’Archi di Torino, the Ensemble In Extremis, the Ensemble Accroche Note, the Ensemble de Musique Interactive, the Mdi ensemble, and the Ensemble Vocal “Contraste”. He is one of the founders of the PRISMA project, an international group of composers which works on computer-aided composition and new axes in musical research. He is teacher of composition and C.A.C. (computer assisted composition) at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montbéliard (France) and at the IUP – Université de Franche-Comté of Montbéliard, département PSM – Musique et Son pour le Multimédia – (Master 1 and Master 2). He has given speeches and hold courses by prestigious institutions such as the Sibelius Akademy in Helsinky, the Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana (for the ISCM WOLRD MUSIC DAYS), the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, the Centro Studi Acustica Informatica Musica – AGON in Milan, the Conservatory of Music of Shanghai and the Universities of Hefei and Anqing (China – PRC), the St Mary’s College of Music in Alba (Italy).