Origin Nice, France Role Vocalist Instruments accordion (bayan) Genres Jazz | Labels ACT Record label ACT Music Name Vincent Peirani | |
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Born 24 April 1980 (age 44) ( 1980-04-24 ) Website www.vincent-peirani.com Albums Living Being, Thrill Box, Belle Epoque, EST, Tanguillo Similar People Emile Parisien, Ulf Wakenius, Youn Sun Nah, Michel Portal, Michael Wollny |
Vincent Peirani & Serena Fisseau "Close To You" (Album: "So Quiet")
Vincent Peirani (born 24 April 1980) is an award-winning French jazz accordionist, vocalist and composer.
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- Vincent Peirani Serena Fisseau Close To You Album So Quiet
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- Career
- Awards
- Discography
- References

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Career

Peirani began to play accordion at age eleven and classical clarinet a year later, taking lessons at the Nice Conservatory. He studied clarinet and solfège at the Conservatoire de Paris. He received several awards, including international awards, between 1994 and 1998, such as the 1998 Prix d’Accordéon Classique of the conservatory. He turned to jazz the same year.

Peirani collaborated in the 2000s in France with Michel Portal, Daniel Humair (Sweet and Sour, 2011), Vincent Lê Quang, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit), François Jeanneau, Jean-Philippe Muvien (Air Libre), Olivier Calmel (Empreintes, 2007), Youn Sun Nah, Denis Colin and Anne Paceo. He made jazz recordings from 2003, beginning with an album with the European Jazz Youth Orchestra (Swinging Europe). In 2010 he first recorded his own compositions (Gunung Sebatu). He recorded in duo woth the cellist François Salque, including the album Tanguillo.

He founded a quintet, Living Being, playing from 2013 with the trumpeter Mathias Eick and the vocalist Leïla Martial. They played at the 10th Jazzahead Festival in Bremen.
Awards
In May 2015, Peirani received an ECHO Jazz both as instrumentalist as for his duo with Émile Parisien. His albums Thrill Box and Tandem were also awarded the prize. In 2016, he was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Discography
As leader or co-leader
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