Music
Andrea Ravizza is a composer and arranger from Turin, active between jazz and contemporary music. His musical research moves naturally across different languages and contexts, blending the flexibility of jazz with the complexity of the symphonic orchestra, within a writing style that is consistently attentive to the role of sound, harmony, and form.
After an initial period of intense activity as a jazz pianist and arranger, he obtained a Diploma in Composition from the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” of Turin, graduating with highest honors, distinction, and special mention. His compositional and arranging activity addresses ensembles of widely varying size and nature — ranging from large symphonic and rhythm-symphonic forces to chamber groups, ensembles, and soloists — and also includes projects for multimedia installations and for the media.
Since 2008, he has maintained an ongoing collaboration as a composer and arranger with RaiCom, in particular with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and with the chamber ensembles formed within it. Alongside this activity, he has developed a personal musical language in which respect for the traditions of different genres is combined with a constant drive toward their reworking and transformation, privileging a strong expressive and emotional dimension.
Teaching
He holds the chair of Rhythmic Theory and Musical Perception at the Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” of Alessandria, having previously held the same position at the Conservatorio “F. Cilea”.
Since 2018, he has also taught Virtual Orchestration and Composition for Applied Music for Images at the Conservatorio of Turin.
Collaborations
Institutions and organizations
Associazione DeSono, Associazione Musica Insieme, CNA - Piemonte, CNSO (Czech National Symphony Orchestra - Prague), Coro del Teatro Regio, Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia - Rome, Comitato Italia 150, City of Turin, Consolato d’Italia in Basel, Digital Records, Emilia Romagna Festival – Classical Music Festival, Expo 2015, Expo 2025, Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino, I concerti al Quirinale, Italian Swiss Jazz Festival, JCT Jazz Club Torino, La Nuova Arca, La Reggia di Venaria, MiTo (2015, 2014, 2012, 2010), Mediaset, Moncalieri Jazz Festival, Museo dell’Automobile – Museo Egizio – Turin, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Orchestra A.Gi.Mus, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Master dei Talenti CRT, Orchestra Sinfonica Mitteleuropea, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Palomar – Television and Film Production, Piemonte in Musica, Punto Rec Studios Srl, Rai Ragazzi, Rai Yoyo, RaiCom, RaiTrade, Rome, Romanian Athenaeum, Roma Film Orchestra, Rotary Piemonte, Scomegna Edizioni Musicali, Teatro Stabile, Torino Classical Music Festival, Toroc (Paralympic Committee).
Artists and musical ensembles
Andrea Agostini, Arisa, Carlo Romano, Carola Cora, Cesare Rascel, Claudia Lagona (Levante), Claudio Chiara, Daniele Ghisi, Danilo Rea, Devid Ceste, Enrico Rava, Ernesto Migliacci, Fabio Giachino, Fabio Gurian, Fabrizio Bosso, Flavio Boltro, Francesco Cafiso, Fulvio Albano, Gegè Telesforo, Gianni Oddi, Gianluca Guidi, GianPaolo Petrini, Gli 8 Violoncelli di Torino, Il Quartetto d’Archi di Torino, Il Volo, I Solisti dell’Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, I Solisti Aquilani, Italian Sax Ensemble, Lorenzo Branchetti, Luca Begonia, Luciano Pavarotti, Lucio Dalla, Maria Alejandra Jimenez, MetaPhōnê Chamber Consort of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Nico Gori, Sette Ottavi dell’OSN Rai, Paul Sorvino, Roberto Alagna, Stacy Francis, Stefano Di Battista and Nicky Nicolai, Stjepan Hauser, The Italian Tenors, Tosca, Ugo Viola, Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite, Umberto Beccaria, Voci di Corridoio, Zucchero.
Conductors
Timothy Brock, Aurelio Canonici, William Eddins, Gianna Fratta, Michelangelo Galeati, Giancarlo Gazzani, Guido Guida, Jan Latham Koenig, Ryan McAdams, Alessandro Milani, Alessandro Molinari, Steven Mercurio, Pietro Mianiti, Giuseppe Ratti, Speranza Scappucci, Lior Shambadal, Davide Trolton, Biagio Zoli.