Pietro Girardi

Pietro Girardi is a pianist and composer born on 19 January 1976. Since the mid-1990s he has been active with bands in the Venice area, performing pop, Latin music, fusion and contemporary jazz. He has appeared at festivals including Ubi Jazz, Veneto Jazz and Venice Jazz, as well as in local venues.

By the time of Memories of the Last Century he had released seven recordings as a solo artist and sideman. A track from his jazz-fusion album Morning was selected for the sampler CD accompanying the American magazine JAZZIZ in 2012. Two years later, a track from his contemporary-jazz album Home was featured in another issue of the same magazine.

In 2002 he received a scholarship to attend the Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz in Perugia, where he studied with members of the Berklee jazz faculty, including Larry Monroe, Mark White and Jeff Stout. In March 2016 he earned a master’s degree in jazz piano at the Venice Conservatory and received the Peggy Guetta Finzi grant, awarded to a jazz student of the conservatory for the first time.

He has composed music for video productions and advertising since 2012. In 2017 he wrote and produced three soundtracks for short films in the United Kingdom and Italy.