Rio Wolta (*1988) is a Swiss composer and musician, as well as a director for various music projects. As a multi-instrumentalist and singer, he composes for film, theater, and dance. He stages live music formats for theaters, composes for unusual places, and exhibits sound installations. He has been collaborating with the director Piet Baumgartner, the choreographer Tatiana Baganova, or the musician Daniel Hobi. Rio Wolta’s debut album Swing For The Nation was released in 2015 and was considered one of the best guitar albums of the year (Peter Walt, SRF). His latest, co-produced by Domi Chansorn, came out in 2025 (Technophobia). In 2022, Rio Wolta co-founded the music publishing company No Signal Music. In 2024, he released the book 92 Questions for an Artist with the publisher Distanz. Rio Wolta was born in 1988, survived his teens in the Alps, studied history at University of Zurich & HU Berlin, and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
