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Name
Roberto Regazzi
Books
The complete Luthier's library
Dedicato a roberto regazzi e ai suoi violini
Roberto Regazzi (born 20 August 1956 in Bologna, Italy) is a notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation in the craft from Otello Bignami. Regazzi lives and works in Bologna.
The debut was at an early age; when he was 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.
Established and well known worldwide for the high quality of his instruments, he has been president of a number of specialized organizations including the European Association of Violin and Bow Makers.
His violins are examples of the Italianate sound and in demand also in countries.
Just before the advent of the new millennium his production started to be inspired by Guarneri del Gesù, with the achievement of a rich and 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 conferred on him an honour in recognition of his work.
The Regazzi Library is a large collection of books and documents about musical instruments.
He has been on 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, the 2nd Concourse in S.M. della neve of Pisogne and the prestigious 10th Henryk Wieniawski Violin-Making Competition, the oldest event of this kind in the world.
He also made several classical concert guitars starting in the 1970s, up to the end of the 1980s, mostly made out of top selected quality rosewoods.
Every instrument is labelled and branded with iron from the beginning of his artistic career.
He has written books, lectured around the world and organised cultural events relating to his art and profession.
Regazzi is the first luthier from Bologna having been chosen as an official testimonial for the Craft of Traditional Musical Instrument Making at the Bologna Shanghai 2010 Expo.
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
Ansaldo Poggi 1893-1984 in The Strad magazine, January 1985 (Obituary, p. 643)
Ansaldo Poggi centenary concert in The Strad magazine, February 1994
Between Bologna and Stradivari, Cremona, Edizioni Novecento 2011
Carving a pioneering path [the life of Alvina de Ferenczy] in The Strad magazine, August 2015
Fiorini's favourite pupil in the Strad magazine, September 1994
ODDONE, Carlo Giuseppe in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 79 (2013)
Otello Bignami, Ricordi, 46 testimonianze nel centenario della sua nascita, Bologna, Comitato Celebrativo 2014
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
Giuseppe Fiorini in Arte Liutaria, Firenze, 1988, n. 11, pp. 29-32
Lutherie in Bologna: Roots & Success, with Sandro Pasqual, Bologna, Florenus 1998
Spirit of Diversity in The Strad magazine, September 2014
The man who bought Stradivari's workshop in The Strad magazine, September 2011
The pupils of the workshop in Otello Bignami Cent'anni - Centenary 1914-2014, Bologna, Comitato Celebrativo 2014
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 1991Bologna, December 7–22, 2002, Art and History Collections of Fondazione Carisbo 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
The Tononi family in The Cozio Carteggio from Tarisio.com, March 2015
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)
Musical Instruments' Acoustics as seen from a violin maker's point of view through the ages, in: ICA 17th International Congress on Acoustics - Rome September 2–7, 2001
La Liuteria in Emilia e Romagna dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Rimini 2002. Idealibri.
Between Bologna and Stradivari. The European journeys of Giuseppe Fiorini, Cremona-Bologna 2011, Edizioni Novecento
Mozart a Bologna (2016), a movie by Graziano Cernoia, 2016
Gli Asteroidi, a movie by Germano Maccioni, 2016
Wood-n-Soul, a movie by Alessio Gonnella, 2015
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 9979-9269-0-2 -
Ottorino Respighi, "Quartetto Dorico" & Quartet in D minor, Dynamic 2001 ASIN B000059TBW
Ruggiero Ricci, The Legacy of Cremona, Dynamic 2001: CDS373 ASIN B00005TNDL
Ludwig van Beethoven, Ástor 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