Giovanni Perin (1987, Padova, Italy) started playing the piano at the age of eight, and six years later, he passed the audition for the percussions class in the Conservatory of Classical Music, where he studied with Alberto Macchini.
He attended many masterclasses in jazz piano (with the jazz boppers Barry Harris and Giovanni Ceccarelli), vibes and marimba (with David Friedman, teacher at the Jaz...
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Giovanni Perin (1987, Padova, Italy) started playing the piano at the age of eight, and six years later, he passed the audition for the percussions class in the Conservatory of Classical Music, where he studied with Alberto Macchini.
He attended many masterclasses in jazz piano (with the jazz boppers Barry Harris and Giovanni Ceccarelli), vibes and marimba (with David Friedman, teacher at the Jazz Institute, in Berlin, Dave Samuels, teacher at the Berklee Music School, in Boston, Ney Rosauro the director of percussion studies at the University of Miami, Johan Bridger, teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, in Copenhagen, and Andrea Dulbecco, teacher at the Conservatory of Classical Music, in Milan), timpanis (with David Searcy, ex-timpanist of “La Scala” theatre, in Milan), ethnic and Latin-American percussions (with Arnaldo Vacca and Marco Catinaccio).
In the summer of 2006 he went to the Berklee School of Boston to attend the “Five Weeks Summer Program”, where he studied vibes and marimba with Ed Saindon, being selected for the high level jazz class.

In 2010 he graduated with honors at DAMS (the Drama, Arts and Music Studies Faculty at the University of Padua) and at the Adria Conservatory of Classical Music (Bachelor’s + Master’s in percussions).

In 2014 he also graduated with honors with Dave Friedman at the Jazz Institute of Berlin (Bachelor’s in jazz vibraphone and marimba at the University of Arts) and he successfully completed his Jazz Master’s at the Conservatory of Music, in Rovigo (Italy).

He has won many prestigious jazz competitions such as the National Prize “Jazz Lighthouse” in Genova (1st prize), the National Prize “Roma Jam Session 2007” (3rd position in the soloist section), 1st place for the public and 2nd overall plus a scholarship in the International jazz competition “Massimo Urbani”, in 2011, the National Award “Chicco Bettinardi” 2015 as best young band Cd with “Oirquartett”, and the National Award “Marco Tamburini 2016”: 1st Prize .

He has played with many important international musicians such as Dave Samuels and Neil Leonard (teacher of the Electronic Music Department at the Berklee School, in Boston), Fabrizio Bosso, Vittorio Matteucci, Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq, Elias Stemeseder, Kelvin Sholar, Eric Vaughn … In August 2010, he was on tour in India with the Italian singer Chiara Beltrame, as a special guest of the rock indie group “Vinapra”, giving his contribution also for the launch of their newGiovanni Perin (Vibraphonist, Composer, Professor)

Giovanni Perin (1987, Padova, Italy) Giovanni started playing the piano at the age of eight, and six years later, he passed the audition for the percussions class in the Conservatory of Classical Music, where he graduated with Alberto Macchini. In 2010 he graduated with honors at DAMS (the Drama, Arts and Music Studies Faculty at the University of Padua) and at the Adria Conservatory of Classical Music (Bachelor’s + Master’s in percussions).
In 2014 he also graduated with honors with Dave Friedman at the Jazz Institute of Berlin (Bachelor’s in jazz vibraphone and marimba at the University of Arts) and he successfully completed his Jazz Master’s at the Conservatory of Music, in Rovigo (Italy). He’s now professor for improvisation, composition and classical percussion, at the Italian Conservatories of Adria and Trapani.
He has won many prestigious jazz competitions such as the National Prize “Jazz Lighthouse” in Genova (1st place), the National Prize “Roma Jam Session 2007” (3rd position in the soloist section), 1st place for the public and 2nd overall plus a scholarship in the International jazz competition “Massimo Urbani”, in 2011, being also a finalist in the National Jazz Prize “Chicco Bettinardi” 2008.
In 2011 he won the Zorzella Prize: a scholarship for the most talented young jazz player of the year and recorded “Dream With Open Eyes”, his first CD as a band leader, with the famous virtuoso trumpet player Fabrizio Bosso.
Besides that, he relased: Portraits, #Pera , Double Vibes (all with “Associazione Culturale Statale 11”) and two vinyls with his trio called Drums Organ Vibes Ensemble: “Where are you” and “Here we are”.
He has also played as vibes player and percussionist on the Italian national radio and on TV programs such as “Il Terzo Anello” and “Fahrenheit” at RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) Community (RAI World), “Klassik Pop et Cetera” (Deutschlandfunk), Jazz Radio (Germania).
He has played as vibraphone player in Europe, Asia and Australia with many important international musicians such as Dave Samuels and Christine Jensen, Neil Leonard, Fabrizio Bosso, Federico Malaman, Diego Pinera, Kelvin Sholar…
He has been invited to give masterclasses in vibraphone and marimba at Melbourne, Sidney, Canberra, Toronto, Montreal (Mc Gill), Istanbul Universities and many other Italian Conservatories. He has been invited to many important jazz festivals such as “Berlin Jazz Radio Festival”, “Ancona Jazz Festival”, “Padova Jazz Festival”, “Bologna Jazz Festival”. Giovanni is the author of several books dedicated to the world of mallet keyboards including three Easy mallets volumes: Vibraphone & improvisation, Marimba & Xylophone, Famous Song (all by Norsk Musikforlag). His etudes “Aforismi -11 etudes for solo vibraphone”, also published by Norsk Musikforlag, are played in conservatories all over the world. Recently the first of the three volumes dedicated to jazz improvisation was released by Mostly Marimba: "Jazz Vibraphone - Journey to artistry".

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