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Italian pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher Andrea Pellegrini has recorded with several jazz ensembles for the Symphonia Bluesmiles label, among others. His recorded debut as a leader, Middle Earth, was released in 2000. In addition to Ensemble Ainulindale, the group featured on this album, Pellegrini also leads and composes for the Ottetto Contemporalia, and the Orchestra Jazz Bonamici "Group-One," a group consisting of students at a music school in Pisa where he taught. Pellegrini's compositions have been performed by a number of jazz orchestras and have been commissioned by others for a variety of settings, including film and dance. Coming from a background in classical music studies, he found his own way into the jazz world. He continued to play a variety of music and in addition to performing in a number of lineups ranging from jazz quartet to the project In A Simmenthal Mood with esteemed bassist Bruno Tommaso and dancer Nadia Scarpa. Pellegrini also appeared on some '90s pop recordings, including Malina's Gently Hard (1999, CIS Records). ~ Joslyn Layne"

""poliedrico e eclettico" (Musica Jazz),

“dal pregevole lirismo” (La Repubblica)

Studies:

Classical:

AP studied Piano in Livorno with his father Gianfranco from the age of 6, and prof. Matilde Vigo and Ilio Barontini, then classical Percussion in Livorno, Istituto Musicale P. Mascagni with G. Ferrari (5 years).

Jazz:

Corso di Alta Qualificazione per Musicisti di Jazz e Derivazioni Contemporanee, a post-diplomam certificate by European Union/Siena Jazz(60/60). Bachelor diplom in Jazz, cum laude, Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali P.Mascagni, Livorno. AP plays correctly el. & upright bass, drums, guitars.

Discography:

Cd:

Jazz

as a leader / composer

“Middle Earth” Ainulindale Ens. Paul McCandless, Symphonia Bluesmiles 1999

“Disordini al Confine” Atypical Jazz Orch. Bonamici NJI2002 Materiali Sonori

“Interferenze” Atypical Jazz Orchestra Bonamici, NJI 2004

“Malcontenta e Altre Storie” Atypical Jazz Orch. Bonamici, Barga Jazz, NJI 2005

“Progetto Macchiaioli” Tino Tracanna, Quintetto di Livorno, NJI 2008 (Believe Digital)

Jazz

as a pianist

“The Kid” Quartetto Okapia, Oscar Records, Bologna 1993

“Things Left Behind” Claudio Riggio Iridescente Ensemble, Paolo Fresu,Symphonia Bluesmiles 1998

“Sorvoli”Lapsus 2001, Marco Cattani, Poems by M. Lovi, R. D’Incà

“Emma e il Martedì” Duo w. Nino Pellegrini, Vinile 2009

“Original Soundtrack for Charles and Mary” Bruno Tommaso Jazz Workshop, 2011.

As a composer

“Palermo Città d’Arte” Extramedia 1997, Brunelleschi Oboe -String Quartet

“Le città e la memoria” Marco Cattani Group, 2011 (1 composition)

Commercial

“What’s Cooking at Le Bozze” PaolaLiberato Productions / Fonè1995

”GentlyHard”, Malina, CIS Records 1999

Arrangements

Movie“Ritorno a Parigi” Festival di Venezia 1994 (strings); Dance performances (Atelier Delle Arti, Livorno); Septet Insieme Stabile (Ob-Fl-Cl-Tpt-bass-p-d); cellos quartet and others, for various songwriters and other.

Other compositions for

Dance& Jazz Performance (Contemporalia, classical quartet + jazzquartet);

Movies as “Commercial Picture Rhymes”, H. Richter 1929

and other.

Collaborations:

Played all through Italy and in France, England, The Nederlands, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland with several jazz / pop artists as Bruno Tommaso, PaulMcCandless, Tino Tracanna, Paolo Fresu, Pino Minafra, PieroBronzi, Massimo Manzi, Sylvain Clavier, Vittorio Silvestri, EricBretheau, "Steve" Lunardi, Linda Wesley, Michel Altier, Beppe Caruso, Vittorio Marinoni, Emanuele Cisi, Vincent Calmettes, Pascal Salè, Stefano Agostini, Jamie Moses (The Pretenders),Irene Grandi (Duet), Bobo Rondelli (Duet), Cristina Donà, Piero Borri, Arnoldo Foà, Tommy Varjola, Mirko Guerrini, Rob Burke, Giampaolo Casati, Fabio Morgera, Vjtautas Labutis, Eugenijus Kanevicius, Baenz Oester, Stefano Saccon etc.

Today Performing with:

Ensemble/Quintet/Duo with Paul McCandless;

BrunoTommaso Jazz Workshop (string quartet + horns quartet + jazz group);

Quintetto di Livorno withTino Tracanna (Original compositions inspired by painters from Tuscany as the Macchiaioli, Amedeo Modigliani and others); Piano Solo

his daughter, Chiara Pellegrini (myspace.com/chiarapellegrini)

his brother Nino Pellegrini (myspace.com/ninopellegrini)

JazzLab Livorno

Frncesco Desiato - Marco Cattani - Andrea Pellegrini - Mirco Capecchi - Michele Vannucci West Coast Quintet

and several other projects.

Teaching Experiences:

Jazz Piano, Ensemble, Trio, Jazz Orchestra at Scuola di Musica Bonamici (Pisa), 1995–2010; Jazz, at Istituto Superiore Musicale P.Masacgni, Livorno, 2010, bachelor and master courses; JazzLab TeatroC Livorno 2011; many others institutions since 1991.

Master classes: Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Slovak Republic.

Didactics:

Director, Scuola di Musica Bonamici (Pisa), 2004/2010.

Member of the Board, italian music schools association AIdSM www.aidsm.itsince 2005.

Delegate for Italy in EMU European Music School Union since 2006 (meetings in Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium,Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Germany) (www.musicschoolunion.eu)

Editorial Publications:

AP. collaborates with alleo.it, review Audiophile Sound and others, and released about 90 articles about cds, books, events, and interviews, and the book "Livorno, dalla musica americana al Jazz" , Erasmo ed. 2013.

See also:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Pellegrini

About the Pellegrini - Vianesi musicians family:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellegrini_-_Vianesi