Enrico Malatesta is a percussionist is active in the field of contemporary, electro-acoustic

and improvised music.

He studied classical percussion at the “Bruno Maderna” Conservatory in Cesena, delving into

both the orchestral and soloist repertoire.

Besides his ongoing solo projects he’s also active performing works from the soloist

repertoire of the 20th Century, including graphic scores by J.Cage, M.Feldman,K.

Stockhausen,E. Brown.He frequently works with percussionists Christian Wolfarth and Seijiro

Murayama and also works with musicians like Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Robin Hayward,

Lorenzo Senni, Tristan Honsinger, Urs Leimgruber, Manuel Mota, John Russel, Franz Hautzinger,

Nikos Veliotis, Dominique Vaccaro, Luciano Maggiore, Renato Ciunfrini, Jonas Kocher, Katsura

Yamauchi, Philp Corner among others ,and playing concerts in all over Europe.

His work is released by the Italian label Presto!? Records, second sleep, Senufo editions.
In 2007 he started working for “Teatro Valdoca”, a theatre company where under the direction of Cesare Ronconi, he had the chance to work with Mariangela Gualtieri, Raffaella Giordano and Danio Manfredini.