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Renzo Spiteri is a Maltese percussionist, sound artist, composer, and improviser whose work sits at the intersection of live performance, sound art and interdisciplinary collaboration. Winner of the 2025 Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award for Sound and a 2025 Emmy® Nominee for Outstanding Sound - Documentary, Renzo creates immersive sonic worlds shaped by acoustic instruments, electronic processing, and finely detailed field recordings. His work is deeply informed by physical gesture, rhythmic drive, and long-term engagement with natural and urban environments, shaping a distinctive musical language grounded in place, movement, and presence.
Renzo’s performance practice is expansive, weaving percussion, found objects, live electronics, and improvisation into richly textured experiences. With over three decades of international performance experience, he has performed and toured extensively across genres, including contemporary dance, spoken word, world music, jazz, classical, and experimental music. His collaborations with musicians, dancers, storytellers, visual artists, and filmmakers have taken him to major venues and festivals across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Read more.
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Recent Releases
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra:
Jessica Argo cello, theremin / Rick Bamford drums / Jim Bryce voice / George Burt acoustic guitar / Ceylan Hay violin, voice / Robert Henderson trumpet / Elena Inei violin / Raymond MacDonald alto saxophone / Una MacGlone double bass / Atzi Muramatsu cello / Mike Parr-Burman electric guitar / Jer Reid electric guitar / Maria Sappho piano / Renzo Spiteri percussion / Armin Sturm double bass / Graeme Wilson flute and tenor saxophone / Allan Wylie trumpet
with Fred Frith guitar
released October 19, 2026
recorded 09 May 2025 by Jim McEwan at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
mixed and mastered by Olaf Rupp
cover image combines the graphic score Cello Suite by Josephine Ganter and Raymond MacDonald with event photographs by Jim McEwan
with thanks to Jim McEwan, Duncan Young, and Rob Churm
Awards
WINNER: Royal Television Society's Craft & Design Award (Sound - Non-Scripted) (UK), and
NOMINEE: 2025 News and Documentary Emmy®️ Award (Outstanding Sound - Documentary), recognised by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (USA)
for National Geographic's multi-award winning film Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story.
"The sound design was magical, helping to keep you truly in the moment. The sounds were gentle and subtle and challenging to capture, yet everything came through with authenticity, clarity and beauty. This was a sound recordist's dream of a project and that delight comes across in the work."
RTS Craft and Design Awards jury




