Gabriele Pezzoli is a musician with wide-ranging interests. Pianist, composer, producer and teacher, he is co-founder of the BLUE2147 collective - a multidisciplinary creative lab - and active in numerous projects that cross the boundaries between jazz, improvisation and present-day music.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland, he graduated in 2001 from the École de Jazz et Musique Actuelle EJMA in Lausanne and completed his pedagogical education at the Conservatoire in the same city. He studied with US pianist Richie Beirach and attended seminars and workshops with Joe Zawinul, Pat Metheny, Bobby McFerrin, Ray Anderson and Bobby Watson. He holds a Master's degree in Music Therapy (LABA, 2007) and a CAS in Instrumental Teaching from the Swiss Society for Music Pedagogy (2014).

The album ‘Improvviso’, released in 2005 by the historic Swiss independent label TCB The Montreux Jazz Label, marked the debut and first international acclaim of the Gabriele Pezzoli Trio, a line-up that is still active today and is completed by double bassist Cédric Gysler from Lausanne and Swiss-American drummer Brian Quinn. In more than 20 years of concert activity, Gabriele Pezzoli has performed in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Estonia and Madagascar, playing at festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Athens Jazz Festival, Estival Jazz and Piano City Milano, where he performed solo in a sold-out dawn concert on the roofs of Piazza Duomo. He has also performed music for theatre, dance, visual arts and multidisciplinary performances, and composed the soundtrack for the documentary ‘Mission Asclepios’ (2023) by award-winning director Patrik Soergel and produced by Swiss national television.

He has collaborated with French harmonica player Olivier Ker Ourio, considered by critics to be the natural successor to Toots Thielemans, and with Norwegian future-jazz pioneer trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær with whom, in 2022, he premiered a programme of original compositions at the 23rd Festival di cultura e musica jazz in Chiasso, a concert produced and broadcast live by the national radio network RSI Rete Due. He has also collaborated with Tino Tracanna (saxophonist of Paolo Fresu's historic quintet), Max De Aloe (harmonica player and winner of five Jazz It Awards), with some of the most relevant musicians from the lively Estonian scene - such as double bassist Taavo Remmel and vocalists Kadri Voorand and Liina Saar - and with numerous musicians from the Italian, Swiss and regional scene, including: Nils Wogram, Manu Gesseney, Domenic Landolf, Reto Suhner, Sara Oswald, Lorenzo De Finti, the 'q3' collective, Bienoise, Elia Anelli, Roberto Pianca, Nolan Quinn and Kety Fusco.

He has released 9 albums as a co-leader, including ‘Like Eyes’ (5/5 stars review by the Swiss magazine Jazz n'More), ‘Viljandi’ (‘élu’ by the French portal CitizenJazz) and the electro-ambient ep ‘Backdrop’. He has played several times in concerts broadcast live by the national SSR/SRG networks and is the author of 3 podcasts dedicated to jazz piano for Swiss Radio Rete Due. Co-founder of the Six O'Clock festival, he is a member of the associations SONART, SSPM, SUISA, SIS, SWISSPERFORM and of the Music Sub-commission of the Canton Ticino Department of Education, Culture and Sport (DECS).