Biography

 Enrico Pieranunzi's biography

To realize what kind of artist Enrico Pieranuzi is, it would be enough to say that he has recorded and toured with essential jazz musicians like Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin and Billy Higgins, among others.
This pianist, born in 1949, recorded his first album as a leader in 1975 and, to this date, he has more than fifty with the most varied formations and artistic proposals.
Prolific composer of movie soundtracks, his intimate relation with the genre is portrayed in his trio albums where he versions Ennio Morricone’s music or his great Fellini Jazz, in which together with artists such as Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheleer and Chris Potter he recreates those melodies that mainly Nino Rotta wrote for the films of the famous filmmaker.
This album (Fellini Jazz) will be the basis of the Festival’s closing concert, together with his Italian trio with the outstanding Luca Bulgarelli in double-bass and Mauro Beggio in drums. This trio will be joined by two prominent Argentine soloists: the trumpeter Diego Urcola, settled and with a great career in New York for more than twenty years; and Ramiro Flores, one of the most outstanding local saxophonists that got the Clarín Award for Best New Jazz Musician in 2007. As regards the other two concerts, the last albums show Pieranunzi precisely in this condition: a live album, in Japan, with his trio and a piano solo, based in the music of the baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti.