Gianni Perilli

Multi-purpose musician, composer, arranger, he started to play under the direction of his father (Cesare Perilli). After a long activity abroad with blues and rhytm and blues bands he decided to come back to his origin.

He continued to make the most of traditional heritage started by his father playing "ciaramella" in an original and modern way.

He played with the top italian groups as "Il canzoniere internazionale", "Musica Nova" with Eugenio Bennato, Tullio De Piscopo, Pino Daniele, Tony Esposito, Rosario Jermano, Patrizio Trampetti, etc.

His "ciaramella" echoed in italian most important theatres with Bruno Cirino, Mariano Rigillo, Concetta e Peppe Barra, Maurizio Scapparo.

He took part to many international festival of ethnic music all around the world and he magically fused this sound with jazz playing in Atina' s jazz festival with Paolo Damiani, Giancarlo Schiaffini e Savio Riccardi.

He partecipated in many television and radiophonic broadcasts in Italy and abroad. One of his last works in the meaningful partecipation as solist on a soundtrack of the film "I magi randagi" of Sergio Citti, wrote by Ennio Morricone.

He teaches how to play italian bagpipes in Scapoli (Is), Villa Latina (Fr) and Maranola di Formia (Lt).

He realized a "ciaramella" with chromatic scale, applying keys on a traditional instrument. He is a musician equipped of great talent and sensibility.

He took part in the "Morricone dirige Morricone" concert, which was held on the 27th and 28th of November 2003 in the "Parco della musica" auditorium in Rome, where the "Roma sinfonietta" organic orchestra, the chorus of Rome, Susanna Rigacci and the portoguese singer Dulce Pontes took part.

e-mail: gianniperilli@libero.it