Tancredi Lo Cigno

Pop/Rock & Fusion/Jazz Drummer for TOURS, STUDIO SESSIONS and LESSONS.


- THEY SAY ABOUT ME -

Franco Battiato

“I’ve followed Tancredi’s career since the beginning,
always impressed by his talent and will to pursue his goals
in the tough world of the music business.”


Dave DiCenso
(Josh Groban, Hiromi, John Petrucci)

“Tancredi makes waves on the drumset.”


Yoron Israel
(Chair of the Berklee Percussion Department)

“I’m studying the Time Trip and it’s musically difficult.”


Bruno Farinelli
(Elisa, Il Volo, Lucio Dalla)

“Tancredi’s optimal capacity for learning, a lot of musicality and above all an infinite curiosity
for the new trends in drumming make him an incredibly tenacious musician.”


JP Bouvet
(Guitar Center Drum Off Champion, Steve Vai, Periphery)

“I especially appreciate the philosophical bent that Tancredi’s teaching clearly has.”

Kenwood Dennard
(Jaco Pastorius, Quincy Jones, Miles Davis)

“Many have complimented my tightness with Jaco, however,
I must give credit to Tancredi and his bassists.”



Federico Fiumani
(Diaframma)

“The best drummer I’ve had in my career of 40 years in music.”


Kim Plainfield
(Professor at Berklee College of Music and The Collective)

“I’ve never had a student that was learning as fast as Tancredi.”


Maurizio Dei Lazzaretti
(San Remo Orchestra, Mina, Samuele Bersani)

“Tancredi’s work is very exiting, all of my esteem goes to him.”


Ivano Zanotti
(Ligabue, Loredana Bertè)

“Tancredi is a young drummer, but only if you mean his age. His technique is really advanced
and he uses his head in the most efficient way towards the instrument.”

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AS A DRUMMER

 

LIVE PERFORMANCES

 

RON MINIS
Suspended in a Sunbeam + Drum Solo

DIAFRAMMA
Siberia

ILARIA
Sala Blu

MERAZ
Meraz

RENEE feat. EMMA NOLDE
A Casa Mia

BOMBA DISCHI
Studio Medley

ROJABLORECK
The Band RAI1 Medley

CHERRY MELLOW
Pay My Respects

LADY IN THE RADIATOR
Aquamarine

CECCO E CIPO
Live Highlights

FLUOROSCENT COLLECTIVE
Spiral

 

STUDIO PERFORMANCES

 

KENDRICK LAMAR
Drum Solo

THE 1975
Drum Cover Medley

VENERUS
Drum Cover Medley

ELIO E LE STORIE TESE
Drum Remix

TANANAI
Drum Cover Medley

DANIELA PES
Drum Remix

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TIME TRIP

 
 

buy the Book and watch the Movie on hudsonmusic.com

Masterclass @ BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Masterclass @ MUSICIANS INSTITUTE

Horizon by JennHwan Wong

 
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BATTERIA TATTICA

 

- Coming Soon -

 

Drum Lesson on Flow


Drum Lessons on Improvisation


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BIO

Tancredi Lo Cigno is a drummer and teacher from Florence specialized in Pop/Rock and Fusion drums. In 2015, after graduating from the Martini Conservatory in Bologna, he moved to Boston, where in about two and a half years he completed with honors the Drums course with a major in Performance at the Berklee College of Music. In 2022 he graduated with honors in Drums and Jazz Percussion at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.

In recent years he has worked in different music scenes; in the Pop/Rock/Indie scene with artists such as Diaframma, Ilaria (X-Factor), Wepro (Amici/San Remo Giovani), Emma Nolde, Cecco e Cipo (X-Factor), Dario Ballantini, Eliza G, Renee, Rojabloreck (The Band), Michele Beneforti, Lady in the Radiator, Cherry Mellow, Shane Weisman, Matt Christianson, Miranda and others who have taken him on tour both in Italy and on the East Coast of the United States.
He is also present in more Jazz/Fusion groups such as Ron Minis, Meraz, One Month, Aleif Hamdan Group, Rini and Fluoroscent Collective with whom he has performed in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.

In 2014 Tancredi began his teaching career with his first clinic tour on Rhythmic Illusions called 'Time Trip' which led him to collaborate with masters such as Christian Meyer (Elio e le Storie Tese), Bruno Farinelli (Elisa, Cesare Cremonini, Il Volo) and Yoron Israel (Chair of the Berklee Percussion Department). Over the years, the Time Trip clinics have evolved, arriving in the UK, at the Musicians Institute of Los Angeles and on many occasions inside the classrooms of Berklee when the drummer was still a student.
In 2020 he published the 'Time Trip Book' with the New York publishing house Hudson Music, becoming their first Italian author.
In 2021 he filmed 10 series for Vibly.tv, one of the most important names in Italian online educational platforms. In 2022 his first method video 'Time Trip - The Movie' was released, again with Hudson Music.

In 2018 Tancredi released his first album of original compositions with the trio Yawyl, entitled 'The Moment After This One'.
The project was born at Berklee together with JennHwan Wong (keyboards and synth) and Rafael Minerbo (bass) and presents a modern-jazz/electronic-rock sound with impactful arrangements, always leaving room for improvisation
and the personality of the three performers.

Tancredi has also studied privately with Mark Guiliana, Dave DiCenso, Kenwood Dennard, JP Bouvet, Kim Plainfield, Panagiotis Andreou, Bruno Farinelli, Maurizio dei Lazzaretti and many others.

 
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