Music

Tim Volpicella spans a plethora of musical genres and idioms as an accomplished guitarist, sound designer, composer, and educator.

Performances

Sounding Resolution! w/ Hafez Modirzadeh & Friends, 2025

Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2023

At the Presidio

Hafez Modirzadeh Group with vocalist Ann Dyer Cervantes
San Francisco, 2016

The People’s Blues

1996, tracks 6-9

Hafez Modirzadeh, tenor sax, composer
James Norton, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, alto flute
Tim Volpicella, guitar and effects
Larry Grenadier, acoustic bass
Jeff Ballard, drums

Tehran Part I: Regime

Tehran Part II: Transformation

Tehran Part III: Revolution

Tehran Part IV: Mourning

Blues Shuffle

Duke Jethro, Hammond B-3 (B.B. King)
Tim Volpicella, guitar
Scott Barnhill, tenor sax
Cubby Ingram, drums

Vak: Song of Becoming

Co-composed by Anny Dyer & Tim Volpicella

https://www.songofbecoming.org/the-concert.html

Responses to Vak: Song of Becoming

In Post Chromodal Discourse

Composed by Hafez Modirzadeh

Hafex Modirzadeh, saxophone
Vijay Iyer, piano
Amir ElSaffar, trumpet
Tim Volpicella, guitar
Ken Filiano, bass
Donongan Kalanduyan, Filipino agung and gangingan
Faraz Minooei, Persian santur
Scott Amendola, drums

Concrete Effort in Panoramic Jazz Views