Paolo Cimmino was born in Naples in 1964.

He teaches Percussion Instruments at the Academy of Music “ G. Martucci ” in Salerno.
Furthermore he teaches Percussion in the Ethnic Music Style for “MusicAteneo” at the University in Salerno and FrameDrums at the University of Music in Rome.

For twelve seasons he was member of the Teatro S. Carlo Orchestra in Naples, and at the same time, he cultivated the passion and the study of ethnic music working with several groups such as “ Tamburi del Vesuvio” and “Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare”.

For several years , after the meeting both with experts of traditional Italian Music (Alfio Antico, Nando Citarella e Antonio Matrone) and of other culture (T.R. Sunderasan, T.Sankaran, Ghatam Suresh) he improved the study of the South Italy Popular Music contaminating it with the musicality and the tradition of South India. Nowadays, apart from being a co-founder of the Frame Drums Europe associations based
in Barcelona.

Actually plays with:

- Matej Meštrovic project "Oriente Expresto".

- Duo con Daniella Ganeva, marimbista del Royal College of Music College.

- Paleo e Moderno Trio
con: F. Villani (piano) P. Cimmino (percusisoni) L. Massa (violoncello).

-Spettacolo-Concerto "Emergenza Ritmo"
con: F. Villani (piano) G. Pedicini (basso). Clicca qui per ascoltare l'mp3.

He performs with the Trio Shadows (piano, violoncello, percussion),with Jingles & Frames (duo of percussion) and he gives concerts both in Italy and abroad, with his friends and players Glen Velez, Ganesh Kumar, (who played in Paolo’s CD “For Gaya”) and Ghatam Suresh.
Paolo has written extensive educational materials on the tamburello and its Technique, such as A new way of Playing Tamburello and 5 tamburello solos published by Note Di Merito (Italy), distributed by Versand H. Brandt (Germany) and by Mr Glen Velez (www.glenvelez.com).

Actually Paolo is President of Società Italiana Tamburi a Cornice (www.tamburiacornice.it).

Paolo is endorser for Meinl Percussion

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