Pablo Rieppi

A native of Uruguay, Pablo Rieppi is a highly sought-after musician in New York City, where he performs a wide range of music with some of the world’s leading artists. Mr. Rieppi can be seen performing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Rieppi performs with countless other classical, new-music, pop, and world-music groups, including Gotham Symphony Orchestra (principal), Speculum Musicae, the Gotham Chamber Opera, the New York New Music Ensemble, DaCapo, Ensemble 21, and the Gotham Chamber Ensemble (principal). He is a member of the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble, the internationally acclaimed multimedia collective VisionIntoArt (percussionist, music director, and composer), the New York Percussion Quartet, Columbia Sinfonietta, Dagmar, and Weimarband, and performs around the world in many renowned concert halls with numerous esteemed ensembles.

Mr. Rieppi has performed and collaborated with some of the world’s greatest conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, David Robertson, Lorin Maazel, and Kurt Masur, as well as with such world, jazz, rock, and soul luminaries as Joe Zawinul, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Paquito D’Rivera, Roger Daltrey, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Mike Keneally, and Dhafer Youssef.

As a soloist, Mr. Rieppi has premiered several percussion works in New York’s Chapel Chamber Music Series. As composer, he has written music for the soundtrack of Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, which won numerous prizes at several film festivals. Mr. Rieppi is a professor of music at Columbia University and Hofstra University, where he teaches privately and is director of the percussion ensemble. He is a teaching artist for the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York and the American Composers Orchestra. He has a master’s degree and professional studies certificate from The Juilliard School, and a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University.