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Andrea Centazzo

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Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder.

Music career

Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played percussion in avant-garde jazz with John Zorn, Steve Lacy, and Don Cherry, and became "a leading figure in the European avant-garde".

After 1986 he turned to video making and composed operas, film soundtracks and orchestral compositions. Since 1992, he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and has become a naturalized American citizen. He has also performed and recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff, Alvin Curran, Anthony Coleman, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Gianluigi Trovesi, Henry Kaiser, Sylvano Bussotti, Theo Jörgensmann, Tom Cora, and Toshinori Kondo. He has conducted his own compositions with the American Youth Symphony, the L.A. Contemporary Orchestra, the Mitteleuropa Orchestra, and many ensembles. He has directed and staged his own opera compositions as well as theatrical plays by other U.S. authors.

Centazzo has also created multimedia projects that fuse acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, and video. His multimedia projects include Mandala, Eternal Traveler, Einstein's Cosmic Messengers, and R-Evolution. In more recent live performances he has given solo multimedia concerts, accompanying his own videos.

Centazzo has recorded over 60 LP's and CD's, and has composed 350 musical works of diverse types, in addition to writing eight musicology books. Andrea Centazzo: Biography, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2012 the Library of the University of Bologna opened the "Fondo Andrea Centazzo" with a collection of his works and documents. "Fondo e archivio Centazzo" , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.

Instrumental innovations

During his earlier career Centazzo developed a number of percussion instruments, including the icebell, a bowl-shaped instrument made from a bronze alloy.

Guido Facchin (2025). 9788870632514, EDT srl. . ISBN 9788870632514

In his 1980 work Indian Tapes he introduced the ogororo, lokole, tampang, tubophone and square bell, based on Native American instruments.

ICTUS

The ICTUS Records was founded in 1976 by Centazzo and his wife, Carla Lugli. Its first release was Clangs by Centazzo and Steve Lacy. Subsequent albums also featured Andrew Cyrille and Lol Coxhill, among others. The label was wound up after eight years owing to financial difficulties, but was revived in 1995

Todd S. Jenkins (2025). 9780313333132, Greenwood Publishing Group. . ISBN 9780313333132

and again in 2006. "ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14", by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz, March 21, 2012.

Compositions

Major compositions by Centazzo include the multimedia opera Tina (1996),

Letizia Argenteri (2025). 9780300098532, Yale University Press. . ISBN 9780300098532

The Soul in the Mist (2006), Moon in Winter (2011), The Heart of Wax (2012), and the multimedia project Tides of Gravity (2016). This last was produced in association with LIGO, NASA and Caltech to mark the first detection of gravitational waves. Andrea Centazzo nota biografica , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.

Music albums

Evan Parker

Steve Lacy, Kent Carter

LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams

Anthony Coleman, Steve Swell, Giancarlo Schiaffini

Marilyn Crispell

Chris Cochran, Marco Cappelli, Anders Nilsson

Roberto Ottaviano

Akira Sakata, Kiyoto Fujiwara

Steve Lacy, Kent Carter

LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams

Janel Leppin, Mike Sebastian, T.A. Zook