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BIOGRAPHY

Giuseppe Rizzo is a contemporary music composer and performer. He writes and performs for images (theatre, dance, visual arts, performing arts). He also produces other artists music, working as musician, arranger, sound engineer, music teacher.

He has completed three Master degrees, one in Classical Guitar, one in Instrumental Didactics, one in Electronic Music, all achieved with honours at the Conservatory of Music Vincenzo Bellini, in Palermo.

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In parallel to his classical musical studies, he has developed over the years a strong specific interest in electronic music and its applications in the field of performing arts, especially theatre, dance and cinema. His artistic journey has also led him to acquire technical skills in the field of audio production (composition, arrangement, recording, mixing, mastering).

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He began a career as a music composer dedicated to the performing arts, as well as music producer and arranger for projects of other musicians.

His approach to electronic music has opened him up to fascinating possibilities in the field of sound art, sound design, sound engineering and sound recording and mixing; also, he has developed professional skills in the use of technology and computer science applied to the music composition, which allowed him to satisfy the variegated expectations of the artists he has worked with. He has always applied to his work the rigor and depth of interpretation learned from ten years of classical musical studies. This led him to favor a mathematical approach to influence sound parameters.

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He wrote music for: Alessandra Pescetta (L’Ombra della Sposa, 2017, produced by La Casa dei Santi Film, selected for 74th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti section); Letizia Russo and Franco Visioli (You Know I'm No Good, 2017, produced by the Venice Biennale for the Biennale Theater Festival 2017); Claudio Collovà (Horcynus Orca – Transito e Ricongiungimento, 2016 and Ulyssage #3 – Telemachia, 2013, produced by Teatro Biondo Stabile of Palermo, Massa e Potere, 2015 and Ogni qualvolta levo gli occhi dal libro, 2014, produced by Foundation Orestiadi, Gibellina); Giuseppe Massa (Nel Fuoco in Chorus, 2016, MIBACT; Sono venuto sull’onda rovesciata con delle perle sulla fronte, 2016, SuttaScupa); the Dadalchemici Company (Al Proleter, 2013, Foundation Orestiadi, Gibellina); Andreea Costenco (Camino History Organic Structure, 2012, Odeon Gallery, Bucharest); Isabella Ragonese, with whom he has won several awards (Che male vi fo', 2004, co-author of the text, too, Asina, 2006, Bestino, 2004); Andrea Cusumano (Something about Lisistrata, 2005, a Space-based Dramaturgy, by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London).

In 2010 he published Inferni in Cerimonia, ZONA Editions, an audiobook of poetry and electroacoustic music with the poet Antonino Bondì.

Since 2009, he is part of the Dance Company Omonia Contemporary Arts, directed by Silvia Giuffrè, with whom he has produced several shows (Prendo il corpo in parola, 3:00 directed by Alice Tatge, L’Uomo Nero, SHARE, La donna Puma).

Since 2006, he is part of the Contemporary Dance Company L’Espace, for which he composed and played live the music of various shows: Coming Soon (2006), produced by the Regional Province of Palermo, Tech No Trash (2010), co-produced by the Energie Alter-Native Festival, Natural Landscape (2017), co-produced by MIM Arte Escenico and premiered at the Teatro de la Dance - Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City.

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Today he has stable collaborations with writers, directors, choreographers and visual artists, which allow him to investigate with them a common aesthetics and path in the field of performing arts. He has collaborations with the major theatres of his hometown (e.g. Foundation Teatro Massimo, Teatro Biondo Stabile, Teatro Libero Incontroazione), for the most important artistic foundations of his region (e.g. Orestiadi Foundation, Gibellina) and his country (e.g. Biennale di Venezia, Venice). He also had the opportunity to establish collaborations with artists from other countries (e.g. Central Saint Martins, London; Odeon Gallery, Bucharest; MiM Arte Escenico and Centro Cultural del Bosque, Mexico City), who connected him with different musical scenarios.

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