«The music of Gabriele Pezzoli is so creative and full of tension»
Jazz'n'More, Switzerland
Photo: Nicolas Masson
ABOUT
Gabriele Pezzoli lives in Locarno, in Southern Switzerland, and is a musician with wide-ranging interests. Pianist, composer and producer, he is co-founder of the collective BLUE 2147 and active in several projects that cross the boundaries between jazz, improvisation and present-day music.
A missed guitarist, passionate drummer and frustrated saxophonist, Gabriele Pezzoli fell in love with the piano in his youth. After earning his Diploma at the École de Jazz et Musique Actuelle EJMA in Lausanne and achieving his pedagogy degree at the Conservatory in the same city, he embarked on a twenty-five-year journey of musical creation, which led him to develop and participate in numerous musical projects and perform in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Estonia and Madagascar, playing at international clubs and festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Athens Jazz Festival, Estival Jazz and Piano City Milano.
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He has collaborated with French harmonica player Olivier Ker Ourio, Norwegian future-jazz pioneer trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, Italian saxophonist Tino Tracanna and with relevant musicians from the Swiss, European and contemporary New Orleans scene, including Max De Aloe, Taavo Remmel, Kadri Voorand, Nils Wogram, Manu Gesseney, Domenic Landolf, Reto Suhner, Sara Oswald, Nolan Quinn, Kety Fusco, Chris Butcher, Jelani Baumann and Christos Melios among many others. ​​For more than two decades, he’s been leading his own piano trio, featuring Lausanne-based double bass player Cédric Gysler and Swiss-American drummer Brian Quinn.