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 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 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.[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.[3]

Performers and musicians who have bought and play his instruments, including Boris Belkin,[4] Franco Mezzena, Anne-Sophie Mutter,[5] Ruggiero Ricci,[6] Salvatore Greco, Giovanni Adamo, Uto Ughi, Franco Gulli, Anastasiya Petryshak, Riccardo Brengola, the Quartetto di Venezia, Peter Fisher and many others.

The Regazzi Library is a large collection of books and documents about musical instruments.[7]

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),[8] the Freiburg Baden-Wurttemberg Internationaler Geigenbauwettbewerb Jacobus Stainer (1996), the 5th Baveno Violin Making Competition,[9] the 2nd Concourse in S.M. della neve of Pisogne[10] and the prestigious 10th Henryk Wieniawski Violin-Making Competition, the oldest event of this kind in the world.[11]

He also made several classical concert guitars starting in the 1970s,[12] 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.[13]

He has written books, lectured around the world and organised cultural events relating to his art and profession.[14]

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.[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
  • 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
  • Augusto Pollastri, 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, 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
  • Otello Bignami, in Cozio Carteggio, Tarisio December 7, 2016: https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/otello-bignami
  • 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 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 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, 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.[16]
Isaac Stern Regazzi 1998
  • Between Bologna and Stradivari. The European journeys of Giuseppe Fiorini, Cremona-Bologna 2011, Edizioni Novecento
  • Otello Bignami Cent'anni - Centenary 1914-2014, Bologna 2014, Giuseppe Fiorini Celebration Committee
  • 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

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; p. 502.
  • Gabriella Gallerani; Chitarra storia mito e immagini - Liuteria.Arte e passione. Intervista a un giovane liutaio nella sua bottega". Fabbri, Milano 1987, pp. 58–64.
  • Il suono di Bologna oggi. Gruppo Liuteria Bolognese, Bologna 2003, GLB, p. 28-29.
  • Secondo Concorso Nazionale di Liuteria Città di Pisogne, catalogo agosto 2008
  • 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.
  • 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. Marina Amaduzzi, Il Signore dei Violini in: La Repubblica, 21 Dec 2005, 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. http://www.maestrodartemestiere.it/it/libro-d-oro/2018/roberto-regazzi
  4. http://www.sienafree.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13166:boris-belkin-e-la-sofia-festival-orchestra-diretta-da-alipi-naydenov-in-concerto-a-siena&catid=256:eventi-e-spettacoli&Itemid=522 or http://mialfombravoladora.blogspot.com/2009/11/52-boris-belkin-con-la-real-orquesta.html
  5. Das Magische Holz, Florenus Edizioni - Dynamic 2005
  6. The Legacy of Cremona, Genova 2001, Dynamic
  7. Franco Basile, Il liutaio che dà forma alle note, in: Il Resto del Carlino, 23 feb 2006 p.9 and "Collectors' corner", in: The Strad, May 2010, p. 53
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-02-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. 5ª Mostra concorso nazionale di liuteria - 2ª Mostra concorso internazionale di chitarra classica, Baveno 1995, Comune di Baveno and Fantigrafica
  10. Secondo Concorso Nazionale di Liuteria Città di Pisogne - Lago d'Iseo - Agosto 2008, Milano 2009, Nicpassech Editore
  11. http://www.wm.poznan.pl/iks/9_01/wituski.html, now moved to: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930021540/http://www.wm.poznan.pl/iks/9_01/wituski.html
  12. Domani un liutaio in Stereoplay. N. 48, October 1977
  13. Arte Italiana per il Mondo; Centro Librario Italiano. Torino 1986; vol XI, p. 7768
  14. http://www.ilsuonodibologna.org/en/officers.htm, now moved to: https://web.archive.org/web/20030429054328/http://www.ilsuonodibologna.org/en/officers.htm
  15. http://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/notizie/cronaca/2010/16-luglio-2010/bologna-shanghai-morricone-bacalov--1703392960975.shtml, http://emiliaromagna.si-impresa.it/Handlers/ComponentStream.ashx?Id=96251 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_5OglInXEU
  16. http://www.liuteriamigani.com/Prefazioni%20libri/prefazione%20Costanzo%20-%20La%20liuteria%20in%20Emilia...%20-%20ita.htm
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