Carlos Zíngaro is a Portuguese violin

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ist and electronic music

Electronic music

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ian active in free improvisation

Free improvisation

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He studied classical music in Lisbon and began working with a number of leading improvisers in the mid-1970s, becoming one of the European top improvisers presently. He has worked with such musicians as Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Teitelbaum

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, Joëlle Léandre

Joëlle Léandre

Joëlle Léandre is a double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation....

, Peter Kowald

Peter Kowald

Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...

, Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips

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, Daunik Lazro, Derek Bailey, Jon Rose

Jon Rose

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, Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark

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, Ken Filiano

Ken Filiano

Kenneth S. Filiano is an American jazz double bassist. He is associated with the modern free improvisational scene....

, Rodrigo Amado, Ned Rothenberg

Ned Rothenberg

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, Rüdiger Carl, Dominique Regef

Dominique Regef

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, Evan Parker

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, Annick Nozati, Theo Jörgensmann

Theo Jörgensmann

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 and Paul Lovens

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Zíngaro has performed at new and improvised music festivals in Europe, Asia, and North America, produced several film scores, and collaborated with dance companies.

He is also a prolific illustrator

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 and comics

Comics

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 author.

Selected discography

• Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra Doctor Faustus with Carlos Zingaro, Gianluigi Trovesi
  Gianluigi Trovesi
  thumb|200px|Gianluigi Trovesi in 2006.Gianluigi Trovesi is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.A native of Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy, he studied harmony and counterpoint under Vittorio Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European jazz scene....
  
  , Theo Jörgensmann
  Theo Jörgensmann
  Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.-Activities:...
  
  , Albert Mangelsdorff
  Albert Mangelsdorff
  Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...
  
  , Enrico Rava
  Enrico Rava
  Enrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
  
  , Carlo Actis Dato
• The Space Between Carlos Zíngaro, Rodrigo Amado, Ken Filiano
  Ken Filiano
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• Madly You Carlos Zíngaro, Daunik Lazro, Joelle Leandre
  Joëlle Léandre
  Joëlle Léandre is a double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation....
  
  , Paul Lovens
  Paul Lovens
  Paul Lovens is a musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw and various selected and unselected cymbals. He has also performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra....
  
  
• "Beauvais Cathedral" Emanem 4061. Kent Carter.
• "La contra basse" Le chant du monde. Kent Carter.
• "Sweet Zee" hat Art 2010. Daunik Lazro.
• "The Willisau suites" ITM Pacific 970077/Emanem 4105. Kent Carter String Trio.
• "Once" Incus CD 04. Company R. Teitelbaum, Lee Konitz, Derek Bailey, Steve Noble, Tristan Honsinger, etc.
• "Solo" in situ ADDA 590076.
• "Écritures" in situ 038. with Joélle Lèandre.
• "Café noir" GRRR 2019. Trio Pied de Poule.
• "Pour garder l'adn en état 110" GRRR 2020. With Un Drame Musical Instantané.
• "Musiques de scène" BBB001CD.
• "L'Histoire de Mme. Tasco" Hat art 6122. Canvas Trio J. Lèandre, Rudiger Carl
• "The arrow of time" Ano Kato Record 2005. Floros Floridis
• "Periferia" in situ 164. With Daunik Lazro, J. Bolcato, Sakis Papadimitriou.
• "Sound on stage part 1" Musicworks 58. With Joelle Lèandre.
• "Hallelujah, anyway: remembering Tom Cora" Tzadik TZ 760s. Tom Cora/Leo Smith/Richard Teitelbaum/Carlos Zingaro
• "Lisboa! a soundscape portrait" ZP9401.
• "Cyberband" Moers Music 03000 CD. Richard Teitelbaum. Fred Frith, George Lewis, Otomo Yoshihide, Tom Cora, etc.
• "Golem" Tzadik 7105. Richard Teitelbaum. Shelley Hirsch, David Moss
  David Moss (musician)
  David Moss is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp...
  
  , George Lewis
• "Hauts plateaux" Potlatch P 498. Duo with Daunik Lazro.
• "Cuts" FMP CD 94. With Peter Kowald and Ort Ensemble.
• "Moments" Music and Arts CD-999. Canvas Trio.
• "Western Front" Vancouver 1996 hatOLOGY 513. Duo with Peggy Lee.
• "Pifarely/Zingaro" in situ 167. Duo with Dominique Pifarély; part of 3CD box.
• "Release From Tension" audEo 0197.
• "Cenas de uma Tarde de Verão" Teatro Nacional D.Maria II TNDM II 001CD.
• "Blood pool" AnAnAnA HHH 001. Track on compilation CD.
• ">11>ways>to>proceed" For 4 Ears CD1035. Burgener/Teitelbaum/Müller/Zingaro.
• " Joëlle Léandre Project", Leo LR CD287. Richard Teitelbaum, Daunik Lazro, Paul Lovens, Marilyn Crispell
• "The chicken check in complex" Leo LR CD340. Zingaro/Léandre/Tramontana.
• "Total Music Meeting 2001: Audiology - 11 groups live in Berlin" A/L/L002. On two tracks on this compilation CD.
• "25th NWM, Ninth World Music NWM0 25" CD. One track on compilation CD.
• "Cage of sand" sirr.ecords sirr 2997. Solo violin and electronics.
• "Music for strings, percussion & electronics" BF59. ZFP Quartet. Simon Fell, Marcio Mattos, Mark Sanders
• "Grammar" Rossbin RS 019. Punctual Trio. Fred Lomberg-Holm, Lou Malozzi
• "At the Le Mans Jazz Festival" Leo LR CD458/459. Joëlle Léandre, Paul Lovens, Sebi Tramontana

External links

• Carlos Zingaro page from European Free Improvisation site
• Carlos Zingaro page from Drimala Records site
• Carlos Zingaro page from ARTISTdirect site
• Carlos Zingaro page from myspace