| | Elio Rivagli | | Elio, a very talented studio drummer, contributed to the most part of ChocolateAudio production up to this very moment. Elio studied in Italy and in the US. After getting back from the States, he played with jazz musicians like Robin Kenyatta, All Singer, Franco D'Andrea, Massimo Urbani, Franco Cerri, Furio Di Castri, Flavio Boltro. In 1985 he plays as orchestral percussionist for the Orchestra Sinfonica of Teatro Regio in Turin. After that he recorded and toured with Francesco De Gregori, Eros Ramazzotti, Eugenio Finardi, Vincenzo Zitello, Ivano Fossati, Claudio Baglioni, Fabrizio De Andrè, Fiorella Mannoia, Miyazawa Kazufumi, Justin Haward (Moodly Blues), Jesus Vasquez, Alejandro Sanz, Graham Gouldman, Sergio Dalma, Giorgio Gaber, Elisa and Renato Zero. He had the very big pleasure of sharing the stage with musicians like Beppe Quirici, Armando Corsi, Naco, Una Ramos, Maurizio Gianmarco, Pietro Tonolo, Sandro Gibellini, Danilo Rea, Franco Testa, Paolo Costa, Pier Michelatti, Emanuele Ruffinengo, Paolo Gianolio, Gavin Harrison, Walter Kaiser, Phil Palmer, Tony Levin, Pino Palladino.
www.myspace.com/eliorivagli | | | | | | Lucrezio de Seta |  | Lucrezio contributed with his amazing technique and Gretsch drum set to the Pop kit for NI Battery 3. Lucrezio de Seta is considered one of Italy’s top session drummers. He has international recording and/or Live touring credits with such artist as Donovan, Micheal Landau, Anguun, Chrissy Hynde, Stefano Di Battista, Tina Arena, Fontella Bass, Alex Britti, just to name a few. He is also drummer and producer for different acclaimed Artist and Bands such as Stefania Calandra (IBC 2007 Finalist), the Fusion Trio Virtual Dream, the Prog/Fusion Trio Next, The Scurvy Brothers, and The Fritz Gang Blues Quartet.
www.lucreziodeseta.com www.myspace.com/lucreziodeseta | | | | | | Claudio Zanghieri |  | Claudio Zanghieri is establishing himself as one of Germany’s most interesting bassists. Since moving there from Italy, he has performed and recorded with Torsten de Winkel, Tony Lakatos, Olaf Kbler, Steffen Weber, Philip Van Endert, Ralf Gustke, Christoph Spendel, Andreas Neubauer and many others. He released independently in 2006 his solo cd “ENVISIONS” with Tony Lakatos (saxes), Christian Lohr (kbds/organ/piano) and Cristiano Micalizzi (drums). In Italy he worked with Elio Rivagli, Maurizio DeiLazzaretti, Toto Torquati, Marco Morandi, Marina Rei, Tony Bungaro, Simone Patrizi, Simone Cristicchi, ecc.
www.claudiozanghieri.com | | | | | | Andrea Scuto |  | Guitarist and man of many talents, Andrea is ChocolateAudio’s L.A man, coordinating productions and business links. | | | | | | Fabrizio Campanelli |  | Talented composer and musician, Fabrizio lent his studio for some of ChocolateAudio productions and serves as very precious tester for the audio quality level of our samples. |
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