Pasquale Catalano was born in Naples in 1966 and studied violin, guitar, piano and later music composition at the Naples, Avellino and Matera Music conservatories. Besides being a musician he began his career as a composer in 1985, collaborating with Gennaro Vitiello and then with Mario Santella, inaugurating two prose seasons at the Ausonia Theater in Naples. He abandoned his career as a musician in 1990 to dedicate his life exclusively to his career as a composer.
He has collaborated as conductor, orchestrator, arranger and composer for films such as "Libera" and "I buchi neri" directed by Pappi Corsicato, "Il diavolo nella bottiglia" by Stefano Incerti, "Maruzzella" (an episode of "I Vesuviani") by Maria Antonietta de Lillo, "Il ronzio delle mosche" by Dario D’Ambrosi, "L'uomo in più" and "Le conseguenze dell'amore" by Paolo Sorrentino, "La guerra di Mario" by Antonio Capuano.