Pablo Rieppi / Percussionist & Composer

The Houston Chronicle wrote, “PABLO RIEPPI sparked a lot of buzz at intermission with his ability…he was rock solid no matter what position he had to contort into to play.” A native of Uruguay, Pablo 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. Pablo can be seen performing regularly with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet. He has worked with many other NY City ensembles such as The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Gotham Symphony Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, The New York New Music Ensemble, DaCapo, Ensemble 21 and the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble. He is a member of the internationally acclaimed multimedia collective VisionIntoArt (percussionist, music director & composer), The New York Percussion Quartet, Manhattan Sinfonietta and Naked Ramp Love, and performs around the world in many renowned concert halls with numerous esteemed ensembles.

Pablo has performed and/or collaborated with some of the world’s greatest maestros such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Loren Maazel, Kurt Mazur, Riccardo Muti, and David Robertson, 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, Pablo has premiered several percussion works at The Riverside Church of New York‘s “Chapel Chamber Music Series” and at The Juilliard School.

Pablo has performed in the Broadway orchestras of Beauty and the Beast, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Swan Lake, Oklahoma, Nine, Dance of the Vampires, Thoroughly Modern Milly, The Frogs, Pacific Overatures, Little Women, L’Estat, Fosse and Legally Blonde The Musical. He is currently the percussionist on the Broadway musical West Side Story at the Palace Theater. Pablo has recorded numerous films, television ads and new compositions with several ensembles. Most recently he recorded the soundtrack to The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert DeNiro.

As a composer he has written music for the soundtrack of Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, which won numerous prizes at several film festivals, and is having his percussion and electronic sound piece “Rage” performed by the New York University Percussion Ensemble. Three of his arrangements were performed by VisionIntoArt on a recent tour of Italy.

Pablo is on the faculty of The Juilliard Pre-College, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, and has given numerous educational concerts for Carnegie Hall and The American Composers Orchestra. He has a Masters Degree and Professional Studies Certificate from The Juilliard School, and a Bachelors degree from George Mason University.