Pianist, composer, arranger, he has recorded over 70 CDs under his name, ranging from solo piano to trio, duo to quintet.

A multiple winner of the Best Italian Musician award in the “Top Jazz” competition and the Best European Musician award, Pieranunzi has taken his music to stages around the world, performing at the most important international festivals, from Montreal to Copenhagen, from Berlin and Madrid to Tokyo, from Rio de Janeiro to Beijing.

Since 1982, he has traveled numerous times to the United States, where he has given concerts in various cities, including New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

He is the only Italian musician in history and one of the very few Europeans to have played and recorded multiple times at the historic Village Vanguard in New York with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian (Camjazz, 2010).

It was precisely for ‘Live at The Village Vanguard’ with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian (Camjazz, 2010) that he was awarded the Echo Jazz Award in 2014—the German equivalent of the American Grammy—as Best International Pianist.

The prestigious American magazine ‘Down Beat’ included his CD ‘Live in Paris’, in a trio with Hein Van de Geyn and André Ceccarelli (Challenge), among the best CDs of the 2000/2010 decade.

He has composed several hundred pieces, some of which have become true standards performed and recorded by musicians worldwide (‘Night Bird’, ‘Don’t Forget the Poet’, ‘Fellini’s Waltz’).

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