Carlo Rizzo (percussionist)

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Carlo Rizzo (* 1955 in Mestre ) is an Italian percussionist who specializes in the tamburello , a southern Italian form of the tambourine .

Rizzo studied painting and sculpture at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome until 1979 . During this time he also learned the technique of playing the tamburello with Alfio Antico and playing the Neapolitan tammorra with Raffaele Insra . He perfected his knowledge autodidactically and soon appeared with various Italian groups for traditional music.

In 1983 he made a guest appearance as a musician in Giovanna Marini's Il Regalo dell 'Imperatore in France, where he moved entirely the following year. He lived first in Paris, later in Grenoble . He soon worked with numerous groups and musicians from the fields of traditional music, jazz and contemporary music and performed at concerts and festivals throughout Europe, the USA, the Caribbean and Latin America, Asia and Africa.

In 1988 he taught at the Conservatoire National de Réunion, and in 1994 at the Conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison . Between 1991 and 1993 he taught traditional Italian music at the University of Paris. Rizzo developed two of his own forms of the tamburello ( Tamburello Politimbrico and Tamburello Multitimbrico ), which he also produces himself.

Discographic notes

Compositions

  • Tammurriata , 1991
  • Poliritmia , 1992
  • La Fête des Reugnes , 1993
  • Toscane , 1998
  • Canto Ritmico , 2000
  • Lumiera , 2000

literature

  • Wolf Kampmann : Mister Tambourine Man: The percussionist Carlo Rizzo. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (1991-) , Volume 157, No. 6, ( Schlag-Werk ) November – December 1996, pp. 34–36
personal data
SURNAME Rizzo, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mestre