Desert Drummer
Carlos Solorzano
Pro-drummer | Songwriter | Solo Performer & Clinician
Biography
Carlos took a stroll down memory lane to the place where his drumming days really began
Carlos Solorzano is a professional drummer & composer from Southern Arizona who is available for drumming services & music placements for film, television & video games. He writes original instrumental compositions from tribal drumming compositions, acoustic guitar selections, thematic & mood selections as well as heavier rock/fusion selections. His work has been featured on numerous television shows around the world including:
· Law and Order Special Victims Unit: Shattered & Retro
· America’s Top Model: Welcome to New Zealand & Big Hair Day
· Behind the Music: Ricky Martin
· Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
· 72 Dangerous Animals - Asia - Big! Banded! Billed!
· Swarovski Optiks Quests
· Live: With Regis & Kathie Lee (2/20/2012)
· Mapping the World (BBC)
· Maps: Power, Plunder & Possession: Windows on the World (BBC)
· Rhys to the Rescue (BBC)
· Viva Hollywood (MTV Network)
· Weekly with Ed Gordon
· Sunday Best on BET
· The Big Party & E! News Live on E! Entertainment Television's
· A Harey Hatsiltsul (Israeli Television)
· New Moon (Mexican Television)
· Thalassa 2: Teo Di La Flota Enfosada Reco (Spanish Television)
· Steelroots Classics
His compositions have also earned him multiple ASCAPLUS songwriting awards and grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Arts Foundation for Tucson & Southern Arizona. He also has numerous solo releases available on various streaming outlets.
He also has a solo drumming act where he orchestrates world rhythms around the American drum set in order to imitate the sound of a percussion combo. He has appeared as a solo performer and in Master Class settings all over Arizona and California. Such venues include:
· Music Instrument Museum
· Tucson Morning Blend Television Show
· Live on KXCI Radio
· Motherland Music
· AFASA African Festival
· Kino Memorial Stadium
· Arizona Black Film Showcase
· Pima Community College
· Los Angeles Harbor College
· Instrumental Music Center
· Saint Rocke
· Club Congress
· Tucson Convention Center
· Phoenix Convention Center
· Tucson Children's Museum.
He performs regularly in the Tucson music scene in working bands (Country, Top 40, Blues, Jazz/Fusion, etc.), Musical Theater, Faith Based & World Beat scenes and is on call for session work at multiple locations in Southern Arizona.
Carlos has been featured both as a performer and writer from DRUM! Magazine and blogs on things related to drumming. He is endorsed by and proudly uses: Soultone Cymbals, Hansenfutz Pedals, Drum Dots, Ahead Sticks & Accessories, and No Nuts Cymbal Percussion.
His current projects include writing more music for film television & video games while preparing to launch a series of instructional videos on his YouTube channel that will feature exercises from his first drumming book as well as many of his drum set concepts.