About
Gabriele Pezzoli lives in Locarno, in Southern Switzerland, and is a musician with wide-ranging interests. Pianist, composer, producer and teacher, he is co-founder of the collective BLUE2147 and active in several projects that cross the boundaries between jazz, improvisation and present-day music.
He has performed 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. 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, Italian and European scene, including Max De Aloe, Taavo Remmel, Kadri Voorand, Nils Wogram, Manu Gesseney, Domenic Landolf, Reto Suhner, Sara Oswald, the 'q3' collective, Nolan Quinn and Kety Fusco among many others.
For more than two decades, he has been active with his own piano trio, with the Lausanne-based double bass player Cédric Gysler and the Swiss-American drummer Brian Quinn.
