Faculty

(BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC)

Alessio Pignorio is a guitarist, composer, producer and arranger.

After the bachelor in philosophy from Naples’s university, he moved to Boston to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he had been accepted thanks to a scholarship, from which he graduated “Magna Cum Laude” in Professional Music in only two years.

There he perfected his craft under the guidance of world-class teachers like Hal Crook, Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller, Ed Tomassi and Dave Santoro; he studied jazz composition and arranging with the likes of Greg Hopkins, Ayn Inserto, Steve Rochinski and Jackson Shultz.

He worked, among others, with Bob Moses, George Garzone, Dick Oatts, Jeff Galindo, Nat Mugavero, Pietro Condorelli, La Famiglia, Natale Galletta, The Funkin Machine and Casa Surace (writing and recording the soundtrack for Vodafone and Campari’s radio commercials in 2016).
With Maestro Filippo D’Allio, he worked as arranger to the “Concerto dell’Epifania”, 2017 and 2018 edition, which were aired on national television (RaiUno).

He received several awards including best young talent at “Siena Jazz Clinics" in 2011, best soloist at the "Fara Music Festival" in 2014, runner-up at "Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani" in 2015 and first prize at the “Conad Jazz Contest 2016” with his band Fluid Collective, which just recorded its second album.