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The young Italian composer, Giovanni Perin in Montreal

From August 17th to September 16th, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal will support an artist’s residence, thanks to the project “Artists in Residence” (AIR), created by the Italian Association of Jazz Musicians (MIdJ) and also supported by the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE). A musical journey by twenty young Italian jazz musicians – aged between 18 and 30 – animated by the hospitality and promotion of the Italian Cultural Institutes in the world, a cultural network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

For the AIR project, the young Giovanni Perin, a virtuous vibraphonist and musical composer, arrives to Montreal directly from the Veneto region, followed by Christine Jensen (https://www.mcgill.ca/music/about-us/bio/christine-jensen), a famous saxophonist from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, who will try to compose a new jazz opera.

Giovanni Perin (1987, Padua, Italy) started playing the piano at the age of eight. After a rich international training, in 2006 he began to specialize in the study of vibraphone and marimba. From 2010 to 2015 Giovanni resides in Berlin, a city that marks him both artistically and humanly, getting the diploma in vibraphone and marimba from the prestigious University of Arts in Berlin. He has played and recorded with many musicians of internationally acclaimed and has also won numerous Italian and international jazz competitions. He has participated in numerous national and European radio and television programmes and has also been invited to many important jazz festivals. Giovanni has held masterclasses dedicated to vibraphone/marimba and improvisation on percussion keyboards in many Italian and foreign conservatories including Instambul, Camberra Sidney, Melbourne, Delaware (Ireland) just to name the most famous. The magazine Jazzit puts him in the top ten of the best Italian vibraphonists.

  • Organized by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal
  • In collaboration with: Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori - Associa