RIO WOLTA
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Rio Wolta - biography

A flag-waver pursues his passion on a Sunday morning in an unusual setting somewhere in Switzerland. We see a flag floating and swinging. The tradition of flag-waving is usually celebrated with a national flag, today it’s a white one.

Biography

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