Carlos Solorzano is a professional drummer & composer from Southern Arizona who is available for drumming services & film scoring projects. 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:
1. Law and Order Special Victims Unit: Shattered & Retro
2. America’s Top Model: Welcome to New Zealand & Big Hair Day
3. Behind the Music: Ricky Martin
4. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
5. 72 Dangerous Animals - Asia - Big! Banded! Billed! on Netflix.
6. 1st Look on NBC
7. Swarovski Optiks Quests
8. Live: With Regis & Kathie Lee
9. Mapping the World (BBC)
10. Maps: Power, Plunder & Possession: Windows on the World (BBC)
11. Rhys to the Rescue (BBC)
12. Viva Hollywood (MTV Network)
13. Weekly with Ed Gordon
14. Sunday Best on BET
15. E! Entertainment Television's The Big Party & E! News Live
16. A Harey Hatsiltsul (Israeli Television)
17. New Moon (Mexican Television)
18. Thalassa 2: Teo Di La Flota Enfosada Reco (Spanish Television)
19. 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 and is currently affiliated with Universal Music Group.
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.
He is endorsed by and proudly uses: Soultone Cymbals, Hansenfutz Pedals, Drum Dots, Ahead Sticks & Accessories, and No Nuts Percussion Products.
His current projects include freelance drumming in the Tucson area and writing music for the Arizona based filmmakers. He just completed a track for the audio drama Mark III, is finishing up the music for the film Carpesolem, and writing music for the film The Cafe.
