Roberto Regazzi

Roberto Regazzi (born 20 August 1956 in Bologna, Italy)

Notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation to the craft from Otello Bignami, Bologna, in the late 1970s.

Still very active in his birth city.

Biography

The debut was at an early age; when he was just 14 years old started to be involved with passion in the construction of musical instruments, at that time mostly classical guitars, under the guidance of Alan Wilcox and Renato Scrollavezza in the mid 1970s.

Later, the possibility to become a home pupil of Otello Bignami was crucial for his decision to stop the studies at the Bologna University (Physics) to become a professional violin maker.So even during his apprenticeship the firm could be started at the end of 1979.

Now established, and well known worldwide for the quality of his instruments, he has been president of a number of specialized organizations, including the European Association of Violin and Bow Makers for a couple of times.

His violins are an excellent example of the true Italianate sound and quite in demand also in the United States, Japan, Germany and many other countries.

Just before the advent of the new millennium his production started to be steadily inspired by Guarneri del Gesù, with the achievement of a rich, full sonority.His work is also inspired by Ansaldo Poggi and Otello Bignami (Augusto Pollastri's Bolognese School).

In 2006 the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna has conferred to him a special honour for the prestige given to his birth city with his long and successful activity. [ [http://www.bo.camcom.it/intranet/Comunicati/Anno-2006/comunicato-stampa-premiazione.doc_cvt.htm Camera di Commercio di Bologna ] ]

Famous performers and musicians put their names on his waiting list or bought and play his instruments, including Boris Belkin, Franco Mezzena, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Ruggiero Ricci, Salvatore Greco, Giovanni Adamo, Uto Ughi, Franco Gulli, Riccardo Brengola, the Quartetto di Venezia, Silviu Dima and many others.

The Regazzi Library is one of the largest collections of books and documentation on the specific subject of musical instruments known worldwide.

He has been in the jury of a number of contests for luthiers, including the 10th International Competition of the Violin Society of America at Carlisle, Pennsylvania (1992), the Freiburg Baden-Wurttemberg Internationaler Geigenbauwettbewerb Jacobus Stainer (1996), the 5th Baveno Violin Making Competition and the prestigious 10th Henryk Wieniawski Violin-Making Competition, the oldest event of this kind in the world. [http://www.wm.poznan.pl/iks/9_01/wituski.html]

Made also several classical concert guitars up to the end of the 1980's, mostly made out of top selected quality rosewoods.

Iron branded instruments.

He wrote books, lectured extensively around the world and organized cultural events relating to his art and profession.

Publications

* "In occasione del 250º anniversario della morte di Antonio Stradivari per onorare la figura di Giuseppe Fiorini", Bazzano, 1987
* "In remembrance of Ansaldo Poggi", Bologna, Florenus 1994
* "The Complete Luthier's Library", Bologna, Florenus 1990 ASIN|8885250017
* "The Manuscript on Violin Making by G.A. Marchi - Bologna 1786", Bologna, Arnaldo Forni 1986

Publications - Contributions

* "A Life of Artistry - Sketches of Otello Bignami violin maker in Bologna 1914-1989", with Roberto Verti, Adriano Cavicchi and Giovanna Benzi, Bologna, Florenus 1991
* "Otello Bignami Liutaio in Bologna - Violinmaker in Bologna", with Wilma e William Bignami, Mariarosa Pollastri, Bruno Stefanini, Loretta Ghelfi and Paola Malaguti, Cremona and Bologna 1998 (Turris), 2005, ISBN 88-7929-160-2
* "Classic Violin-making in Piedmonte", Bologna, Florenus 1991
* "Lutherie in Bologna: Roots & Success", with Sandro Pasqual, Bologna, Florenus 1998
* "The Magic of Wood", interviewed by Linda Johnston, with a.o.Rudolf Koelman, Salvatore Greco, Joaquín Palomares, etc.. Genova, Dynamic 2005, edited also with a Japanese translation. ASIN|B000BUEGJA
* "The Sound of Bologna, Bolognese Violin Making between the 1800s and 1900s - Events dedicated to Raffaele Fiorini and the Violin Making Tradition of the City. Bologna, Florenus 1991" "Bologna, December 7-22, 2002, Art and History Collections Cassa di Risparmio Foundation in Bologna San Giorgio in Poggiale", with William Bignami, Gabriele Carletti, Alberto Giordano, Giancarlo Guicciardi, Sandro Pasqual, Mariarosa Pollastri, Duane Rosengard, Pietro Trimboli and Alessandro Urso
* "The situation of violin making in Bologna in the 18th century" in "Fourth Tiverton Violin Conference", East Devon College 1989, ISBN 1-85522-062-8
* "Tecniche basate sulla conoscenza per la classificazione di oggetti complessi, un'applicazione all'analisi di violini di interesse storico", graduation thesis by Alessandro Bugatti and Adriano Ragazzi on the identification of Bignami violins. Prof. Giovanni Guida: supervisor; Piero Mussio, Ing. Pietro Baroni, Dott. Renato Meucci, Roberto Regazzi: assistant supervisors and collaborator
* "Uso di pirolisi con gas cromatografia e spettrometria di massa per lo studio delle vernici usate dagli antichi liutai", graduation thesis by Emanuela Marin, Bologna University 2007. Prof. Giuseppe Chiavari: supervisor; Roberto Regazzi: assistant supervisor
* "Il Settecento Liutario Bolognese", Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, Rome, 1989, Feb. 25th (lecture)

Bibliography

* "Gruppo Liutai e Archettai Professionisti"; ALI, Associazione Liutaria Italiana. Cremona 1994; pp: 76-77.
* "Arte Italiana per il Mondo"; Centro Librario Italiano. Torino 1986; vol XI, pp: 7768-7769.
* Drescher Thomas; "Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart"; Schneider, Tutzig 1990; página 502.
* Gabriella Gallerani; "Chitarra storia mito e immagini -Liuteria.Arte e passione. Intervista a un giovane liutaio nella sua bottega". Fabbri, Milano 1987. Ref pp. 58-64.
* Silvia Montevecchi; "Realizzare i sogni. Storie di donne e uomini felici, with a preface by Patrizio Roversi". Unicopli, Milano 2002. Refpp. 73-83: Roberto Regazzi's intimate bio. ISBN 88-400-0771-7.

Discography

* Emanuele Giacopelli, "2 trios for violin,cello and piano - 2 trios for flute, violin and cello" (Trio Siciliano, violin: Silviu Dima), Udamaris 2007: UME CD011
* Carl Michael Bellman: "Bellman á Íslandi", JAPIS, Reykjavik 1996, ISBN 9979-92269-0-2 [http://www.tagtuner.com/music/albums/CM-Bellman/Bellman-%C3%A1-%C3%8Dslandi/album-v2ced4 -]
* Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, "Beethoven-Brahms", Musicarte 2007
* Antonio Vivaldi: "Violin concertos, Op. 4, "La Stravaganza" 1-6, Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000024MS4|country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi: "Violin concertos, Op. 4, "La Stravaganza" 7-12, Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000024MS5|country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi: "Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 1, 1-6", Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000024MSL|country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi: "Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 1, 7-12", Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000024MSM|country=de
* Gian Francesco Malipiero, "Complete String Quartets", 2 CDs, Dynamic 1996 ASIN|B0000044K6|country=de
* Ottorino Respighi - Giuseppe Martucci, "Piano Quintets", Ermitage 1993 ASIN|B000026TI9|country=de
* "The Magic of Wood", Dynamic & Florenus 2005, with Rudolf Koelman, Salvatore Greco, Alberto Martini, etc., ISBN 88-85250-07-6 ASIN|B000BUEGJA
* Ottorino Respighi, "Piano Quintets", with Patrizia Prati, Aura 1995: AUR 416-2 ASIN|B000009JT7|country=de
* Antonio Bazzini, "Sämtliche Streichquartette", 3 CDs, Dynamic 2002: CDT 418 ASIN|B00006L70O|country=de
* Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Riccardo Zandonai, "Streichquartette", Dynamic 2004 ASIN|B0006DTZWK|country=de
* "Box-Set Quartetti Italiani Von Boccherini Bis Malipiero", 10 CDs, Dynamic CDS486 2005 ASIN|B000CNEFXI |country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Violinkonzerte", 1996 ASIN|B000024MS8|country=de
* Ludwig van Beethoven, "Sämtliche Streichquintette", 2 CDs, Dynamic 2006: CDS484 ASIN|B000FIKVZG|country=de
* Alberto Martini, Mark Van Aken, Roberto Loreggian, "Bicentenaire De L'étude Des Notaires Dierckx Turnhout, Sonate", PRDSM2-02 2002
* Antonio Vivaldi, "(Sonaten)", Tactus ASIN|B000024MS6|country=de
* Ottorino Respighi, "Il Tramonto", Koch International 3-7215-2
* Charlie Chaplin, Dmitri Schostakovich, Sergej Rachmaninoff, "Fun Time", Dynamic 1996: CDS195 ASIN|B00007GXO0|country=de
* Gian Francesco Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Krása, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, "Isolamenti [1938-1945] /Concert No.1", Fonit Cetra 1997: NFCD 2033 ASIN|B000005SID|country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Le Dodici Opere a Stampa (Violinkonzerte)", Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000024MS7|country=fr [http://www.amazon.de/dp/B000024MS7 -]
* Antonio Vivaldi, "12 Opere a Stampa (Sonaten)", Tactus ASIN|B0000249QL|country=de
* Didier Large, "Double Face", DL-Media7 1989
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Konzerte für Streicher und Basso continuo", Naxos 1997 ASIN|B0000014F1|country=de
* Giovanni Battista Viotti, Concerto No. 23; Sinfonie concertanti Nos. 1 & 2 (Aldo Sisillo), Naxos 1998 ASIN|B0000060CX|country=de
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Opera 7 - Libro Primo (Concerti 1-6)", Tactus 2000 ASIN|B00003Q001|country=fr
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Concerto for violin & strings in Bf; Concerto for violin & strings in Dm", Tactus 1996 ASIN|B000004581|country=fr
* Antonio Vivaldi, "Flute Concertos Op. 10 with Marzio Conti", L’Offerta musicale di Venezia, Nuova Era 1994: 7192 ASIN|B00005YIPT
* Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Akio Yashiro, Akira Miyoshi, "Chikashi Tanaka and Kazuoki Fujii", Camerata 2001: 28CM-612 ASIN|B00005QCDL|country=jp
* Domenico Scarlatti, Joaquin Rodrigo, "Jutta Wenzlaff and Thomas Bittermann", Sound Star-Ton 1992 ASIN|B0000289GG|country=de
* Nino Rota, "La Strada, The Leopard, etc., conducted by Marzio Conti", Chandos 2003 ASIN|B00009V908
* Orquestra Mahatma and the Solid Strings, "Nightingale of a Thousand Joys", Villagelife 1999 ASIN|B00001ZTZ4
* Iames Santi, 1999
* Giuseppe Martucci, "Klavierquintett Op. 45", Aura 2002 ASIN|B00007FP88|country=de
* Sonia Slany and the Solid Strings, "Bubbling Under", Villagelife 2000 ASIN|B00004S29P|country=de
* "Cantos Yoruba de Cuba", KLE 2003
* "I Concerti: Solo, Duo, Trio" 2003
* Sonia Slany, "Monochord Music", Villagelife
* Sonia Slany, "Meeting Electra", Villagelife 1997 ASIN|B00002MS0O|country=de
* Orquestra Mahatma, "Live Stay Cool", Babel 2005: BDV 2557 ASIN|B000BUYTME|country=de
* Luigi Boccherini, "String Quartets Vol.1", Dynamic 1995: CDS 111 ASIN|B00008EZN1
* Luigi Boccherini, "String Quartets Vol.2", Dynamic 1995: CDS 127 ASIN|B0009DTEQY
* Luigi Boccherini, "String Quartets Vol.3", Dynamic 1996 CDS 154 ASIN|B00002642G|country=de
* Didier Large, "Jazz Guitar Solo", Adda ETM 1991
* Ludwig van Beethoven, "Quartets Op. 18 n.3 & Op. 59 n.3 "Rasumovsky", UNICEF - DC U33 / CD33 [http://www.prodottiunicef.it/aziende/dettaglio_prodotto.asp?id=gbgepjgd&idc=gcnfompf -]
* Camille Saint-Saens, "Streichquartette", Dynamic 1997: CDS 179 ASIN|B000027CTG|country=de
* Ottorino Respighi, "Quartetto Dorico" & Quartet in D minor", Dynamic 2001 ASIN|B000059TBW|country=de
* Ruggiero Ricci, "The Legacy of Cremona", Dynamic 2001: CDS373 ASIN|B00005TNDL
* Ludwig van Beethoven, Astor Piazzolla, "Un incontro con Dora", Aikoros 2000
* Gabriel Fauré, "Cuartetos con Piano", Dahiz 1999: 8-431374-000136
* Hans Krása, Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, "Forbidden, Not Forgotten: Suppressed Music from 1938-1945" (BOX SET 3 CDs), Homage 1995: 7001892 ASIN|B00004TE1H

Notes

External links

* [http://www.regazzi.net Official website]