Roberto Regazzi

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.

Roberto Regazzi in Bologna

Biography

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 clear examples of the Italianate sound and in demand also in countries.[1]

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 Giuseppe Fiorini, Ansaldo Poggi and Augusto Pollastri (modern Bolognese School).

In 2006 the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna conferred on him an honour in recognition of his work.[2] In 2018 the Fondazione Cologni wanted to have him in the Golden Book of the MAM (Maestro d'Arte e Mestiere), a sort of Grammy Award for handicraft activities."Roberto Regazzi :: MAM - Maestro d'Arte e Mestieri". Retrieved 3 December 2022.

Many are the performers and musicians who have bought and play or have ordered his instruments, including Boris Belkin,[3] Franco Mezzena, Anne-Sophie Mutter,[4] Ruggiero Ricci,[5] Salvatore Greco, Giovanni Adamo, Uto Ughi, Franco Gulli, Anastasiya Petryshak, Sonia Slany, Riccardo Brengola, the Quartetto di Venezia, Peter Fisher and many others.

The Regazzi Library is a large and valuable collection of books, articles and documents about musical instruments, considered a unique piece in the world.[6]

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),[7] the Freiburg Baden-Wurttemberg Internationaler Geigenbauwettbewerb Jacobus Stainer (1996), the 5th Baveno Violin Making Competition,[8] the 2nd Concourse in S.M. della neve of Pisogne[9] and the prestigious 10th (2001) and 14th (2021, as a Chairman Jury Member) Henryk Wieniawski Violin-Making Competition, the oldest event of this kind in the world.[10]

He also made several classical concert guitars starting in the 1970s,[11] up to the end of the 1980s, mostly made out of top selected quality Brazilian rosewood and quite special western red cedar and Italian or American spruce.

Every instrument is labelled and branded with iron from the beginning of his artistic career.[12]

Guitar for travels, 1985
Guitar for travels, 1985

He has written books, lectured around the world and organised cultural events relating to his art and profession.[13]

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.[14]

In the same period he was also the creator and developer of the wiihang, a kind of prepared handpan which uses the infrared technology to be coupled with a specially adapted synthesizer.[15]

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
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Publications - Contributions
  • 36 ème Congrès national de Lutherie et Archetèrie d’art. Conférences de Eric Blot & Roberto Regazzi, Montpellier - Le Corum 1994, ad ind.
  • "A comprehensive investigation of mechanical and acoustic modifications in wood treated with high doses of gamma radiation for sterilization", in Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 171:9-10, 714-725, DOI: 10.1080/10420150.2016.1253089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2016.1253089
  • A Life of Artistry - Sketches of Otello Bignami violin maker in Bologna 1914–1989, with Roberto Verti, Adriano Cavicchi and Giovanna Benzi, Bologna, Florenus Edizioni, 1991
  • "A new analytical approach to characterize the effect of γ-ray sterilization on wood", in Microchemical Journal 143 (2018) pp. 493–502 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2018.08.001
  • "A scuola da Otello", in Jadranka Bentini and Piero Mioli (eds.), Maestri di Musica al Martini, I musicisti del Novecento che hanno fatto la storia di Bologna e del suo Conservatorio, Bologna, 2021, pp. 345–348 ISBN 978-88-3364-351-9
  • "Amati [Melchioni, Marchioni], Nicolò", in New Grove - Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, 2001: https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00738
  • "Ansaldo, liutaio per missione", in Jadranka Bentini and Piero Mioli (eds.), Maestri di Musica al Martini, I musicisti del Novecento che hanno fatto la storia di Bologna e del suo Conservatorio, Bologna, 2021, pp. 341–344 ISBN 978-88-3364-351-9
  • "Ansaldo Poggi 1893-1984" in The Strad magazine, January 1985 (Obituary, p. 643)
  • "Ansaldo Poggi centenary concert" in The Strad magazine, February 1994
  • "Poggi, Ansaldo" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 84 (2015)
  • "Pollastri, Augusto", by Jaak Liivoja-Lorius and Roberto Regazzi in New Grove - Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online: https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044327, https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44327
  • Augusto and Gaetano Pollastri, part 1, by Dmitry Gindin with the collaboration of Roberto Regazzi: https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/augusto-and-gaetano-pollastri-part-1
  • Between Bologna and Stradivari. The European journeys of Giuseppe Fiorini, Cremona-Bologna 2011, Edizioni Novecento
  • Bignami, Otello in New Grove - Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online: https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000052227 , https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52227
  • "Carving a pioneering path" [the life of Alvina de Ferenczy] in The Strad magazine, August 2015
  • Characterisation of varnishes used in violins by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, in Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2008; 22
  • Classic Violin-making in Piedmonte, Bologna, Florenus Edizioni, 1991
  • "Fiorini's favourite pupil" in The Strad magazine, September, 1994
  • "Giuseppe Fiorini" in Arte Liutaria, Florence, 1988, n. 11, pp. 29–32
  • Gli Asteroidi, a movie by Germano Maccioni, 2016
  • "I Fiorini e il Rinascimento", in Jadranka Bentini and Piero Mioli (eds.), Maestri di Musica al Martini, I musicisti del Novecento che hanno fatto la storia di Bologna e del suo Conservatorio, Bologna, 2021, pp. 333–336 ISBN 978-88-3364-351-9
  • "I Pollastri da Castiglione a S.Martino", in Jadranka Bentini and Piero Mioli (eds.), Maestri di Musica al Martini, I musicisti del Novecento che hanno fatto la storia di Bologna e del suo Conservatorio, Bologna, 2021, pp. 337–340 ISBN 978-88-3364-351-9
  • Il Settecento Liutario Bolognese, Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, Rome, 1989, Feb. 25th (lecture)
  • "In Focus - Ansaldo Poggi (1933)" in The Strad magazine, January, 2020, pp. 61–63
  • La Liuteria in Emilia e Romagna dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Rimini 2002. Idealibri.[16]
  • Lutherie in Bologna: Roots & Success, Roberto Regazzi with Sandro Pasqual, Bologna, Florenus Edizioni, 1998
  • "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, Rome 2001
  • Mozart a Bologna (2016), a movie by Graziano Cernoia, 2016
Isaac Stern Regazzi 1998
Isaac Stern Regazzi 1998
  • "Oddone, Carlo Giuseppe" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 79 (2013)
  • Otello Bignami Cent'anni - Centenary 1914-2014, Bologna 2014, CNA Celebration Committee
  • 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, Roberto Regazzi, Bruno Stefanini, Loretta Ghelfi and Paola Malaguti, Cremona and Bologna 1998 (Turris), 2005, ISBN 88-7929-160-2
  • "Otello Bignami", in Cozio Carteggio, Tarisio December 7, 2016: https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/otello-bignami
  • "Poggi, Ansaldo", by Jaak Liivoja-Lorius and Roberto Regazzi in New Grove - Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online: https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044326 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44326
  • "Pollastri, Augusto" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 84 (2015)
  • "Spirit of Diversity" in The Strad magazine, September 2014, pp. 63–66
  • "The man who bought Stradivari's workshop" in The Strad magazine, September 2011, pp. 79–86
  • "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 1991 Bologna, 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, Roberto Regazzi, 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, 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
  • Tre Secoli di Liuteria a Bologna - Mostra-Concerto a Casa Lauro in occasione del Congresso UEL 1993 / Three Centuries of Violin-making in Bologna, Unione Europea Maestri Liutai a Archettai - Union Europäischer Geigen-und Bogenbau Meister - Union Europeenne des Maîtres Luthiers at Archetiers, Bologna 1993, UEL
  • 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
  • Wood-n-Soul, a movie by Alessio Gonnella, 2015

Bibliography
  • Arte Italiana per il Mondo; Centro Librario Italiano. Torino 1986; vol XI, pp. 7768–7769.
  • Catalogo dell'Artigianato in Italia, Milano, 1984, Giorgio Mondadori
  • Chitarra: storia, miti, immagini - Bologna, 4-15 aprile 1987 - Sala Ercole in Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna, 1987, AICS
  • Drescher Thomas; Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart; Schneider, Tutzing 1990; p. 502.
  • Gabriella Gallerani, "Liuteria. Arte e passione. Intervista a un giovane liutaio nella sua bottega" in La chitarra, storia mito e immagini, Milano, 1987, Fabbri, pp. 58–64
  • Gioli, Sergio, "Un amore di violino" in Il Resto del Carlino, Oct. 6, 1990
  • Heimsoeth, Bettina, "Europäischer Zusammen-Klang" (Handwerk und Europa) in Kammer Aktuell, Zeitung der Handwerskammer Düsseldorf, 19. August, 1999, nummer 16, p. 15 (interview to Regazzi)
  • Gruppo Liutai e Archettai Professionisti; ALI, Associazione Liutaria Italiana. Cremona 1994, pp. 76–77
  • Guida all'Artigianato Artistico nella Provincia di Bologna, Bologna, 1990
  • Il suono di Bologna oggi. Gruppo Liuteria Bolognese, Bologna 2003, GLB, p. 28–29.
  • Secondo Concorso Nazionale di Liuteria Città di Pisogne, catalogo Aug., 2008
  • Monica Mascheroni, L'Artigianato Italiano - Ferro battuto, legno intagliato, vetri piombati, terracotta, maiolica, mosaico, pizzi, merletti, strumenti musicali, Milano 1986, Mondadori
  • Silvia Montevecchi, Realizzare i sogni. Storie di donne e uomini felici, with a preface by Patrizio Roversi. Unicopli, Milano, 2002. Ref. pp. 73–83: Roberto Regazzi's intimate bio. ISBN 88-400-0771-7
  • Nicolini Gualtiero, Violinmakers in Italy - From the 19th century to the present, Ozzano dell’Emilia, 2008
  • Nicolini Gualtiero, Liutai italiani di ieri e di oggi, Cremona, 1991
  • Christobel Kent, "Craft, science, magic" in Bologna For Connoisseurs magazine, 2013, #4 Autumn, pp. 40–47: an interview with Roberto Regazzi. ISSN 2239-706X
  • Il Legno Magico; Bologna-Genova 2005, Florenus & Dynamic: an interview by Linda Johnston. ISBN 88-85250-07-6
  • Nicolò Corsini, "Creare e Ricreare: Intervista a Roberto Regazzi, Mº Liutaio", in Liuteria Elettronica e nuovi gesti sonori: il caso delle Ondes Martenot

Discography

Notes
  1. Amaduzzi, Marina (21 December 2005), "Il Signore dei Violini", La Repubblica, p. 15
  2. Camera di Commercio di Bologna Archived 2007-08-08 at archive.today or see: Patrizia Zini, Un premio alla creatività bolognese, in: Bologna Economica, Luglio-Agosto 2006, p.11
  3. "Boris Belkin e la Sofia Festival Orchestra diretta da Alipi Naydenov in concerto a Siena". Archived from the original on 26 November 2016. or "Boris Belkin con la Real Orquesta".
  4. Das Magische Holz. Genova: Florenus Edizioni - Dynamic. 2005. ISBN 8885250076.
  5. The Legacy of Cremona. Genova: Dynamic. 2001.
  6. Basile, Franco (23 February 2006), "Il liutaio che dà forma alle note", Il Resto del Carlino, Bologna, p. 9 and "Collectors' corner", The Strad, London, p. 53, May 2010
  7. "Competition". Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
  8. 5ª Mostra concorso nazionale di liuteria - 2ª Mostra concorso internazionale di chitarra classica. Baveno: Comune di Baveno - Fantigrafica. 1995.
  9. Secondo Concorso Nazionale di Liuteria Città di Pisogne - Lago d'Iseo - Agosto 2008. Milano: Nicpassech Editore. 2009. and "International winners in Italy". The Strad. London: 16. October 2008.
  10. "Konkurs na miare XXI wiekurozmowa z Andrzejem Wituskim, dyrektorem Miedzynarodowych Konkursów im. Henryka Wieniawskiego w Poznaniu". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. and "Jury". Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  11. "Domani un liutaio". Stereoplay (48). October 1977.
  12. Arte Italiana per il Mondo, vol. XI, Torino: Centro Librario Italiano, 1999, p. 7768
  13. "The GLB Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 29 April 2003.
  14. "Special Day_della_città di Bologna all'Expo (pdf)". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2022. and "L'artigianato spopola allo Special Day Bologna". YouTube.
  15. "Wiihang - WiiBrew".
  16. "La liuteria in Emilia e Romagna - Prefazione". Liuteriamigani.com. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
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