Career
The two-time Grammy nominee has worked with Seal, Coldplay, Paul Oakenfold, Alanis Morissette, Dido, Jem, Niyaz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Khaled, Tiesto, British Telecom, Esthero, Arkansas Rahman and Pete Townshend. Spanning a record-making career of nearly two decades, Rizzo has worked with record producers Trevor Horn, David Foster, Marius De Vries and Rob Cavallo. In addition to collaborating with Tuvan throat singers Huun Huur Tu, Rizzo also co-founded the world/electronic act Niyaz with Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian (with three #1 iTunes albums), and contributed original music to the David Lynch Foundation album alongside Moby and Peter Gabriel.
Rizzo has released his own solo electronic albums: Lost Art of the Idle Moment (2005), Ornament of an Imposter (2008), and Looking Through Leaves (2010), with invited musicians and vocalists as contributors and The Space Left Behind.
Rizzo"s music also appears in numerous movies and television shows including Computer Society of India Miami and True Blood. In these roles Rizzo was partly responsible for introducing the category of Best Electronic Album.
Rizzo participated in and hosted the Home Box Office documentary The Song Story which documents three unsigned music artists produced by him. As a composer, Rizzo is represented by the William Morris Agency.
In addition to scoring films for director Michael Apted, he composed the score for the film Perfect Sisters with Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin and Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino, as well as the end title for the video game Uncharted 2.
Rizzo is represented by Global Positioning Services in Santa Monica, California.