The Rhythm Studio | Teachers | Cristiano Castellitto

Cristiano is a professional drummer, teacher and songwriter, and graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) with a major in Performance (Cum Laude).

He started to play drums at the of age 14 and after one year he was studying at the Music Conservatory (Pescara, Italy), where he also studied solfege and piano. During the summer of 2002, Cristiano participated to the Berklee College of Music's seminaries during the Umbria Jazz Festival. There he had the chance to have teachers such as Ron Savage and Mark White. After this experience he decided to leave the Conservatory, to concentrate his studies on the drums.

In 2006 he began his journey to become a professional musician at Berklee College of Music where he had the great opportunity to study with one of the best faculties in the world (Casey Scheuerell, Skip Hadden, Victor Mendoza, Kim Plainfield, Kenwood Dennard and many others).

During all these years, Cristiano played, recorded and toured with many amazing musicians, bands and acts, such as Vivian Darkbloom, Casey Desmond, Grand Union Orchestra, Acoustic Jim and many others. At the moment he's based in London, where he keeps performing regoularly and teaches drums and percussion privately and at The Rhythm Studio.

 

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"Christiano is an amazing teacher and quite an asset to your organisation.  It's two lessons in now and he has coaxed a small bit of syncopation out of me which I am managing to keep locked in. VERY HAPPY!" (Ed Radcliffe)

"Cristiano is wonderful... We really like him and think he will be an awesome teacher for George." (Laura Pedlow)

www.cristianodrums.com