Travel Notes: Stefano Marchese and Andrea Pejrolo
Arts Wayland in association with
First Parish in Wayland presents
Stefano Marchese and Andrea Pejrolo
Sunday, September 29th at 3 pm
at First Parish in Wayland
225 Boston Post Road, Wayland MA
Tickets for the concert are $20.
Online Ticket sale will end at 12:00 pm on Sunday
The esteemed Arts Wayland Berklee Faculty Jazz Series,under the Direction of Neil Olmstead, Berklee College Professor, continues with Stefano Marchese and Andrea Pejrolo on Sunday, September 29th at 3 pm at the First Parish of Wayland. Stefano Marchese and Andrea Pejrolo: two great Italian musicians who over the years have brought to Boston, the Italian culture, Italian pop, and the musicality of the Italian language which the whole world admires. They have both collaborated with great artists, including Bobby McFerrin, Luis Enrique, Mogol, and Carmen Consoli, and have performed nationally and internationally.
Thanks to their experience, Stefano Marchese - jazz singer winner of numerous international awards, and Andrea Pejrolo - jazz composer/arranger, producer, and double bass player, hold the role of professors of one of the most prestigious universities in the world: Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese, accompanied by an all-star band, present an exciting concert dedicated to the tradition of the Acoustic Canzone Italiana revisited with contemporary rhythms and sophisticated jazz harmonies. This project blends the Mediterranean musical tradition with a modern mix of original melodies, harmonies, and grooves.
Please join us!
Sponsored by the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund
Andrea Pejrolo is a national and international composer, producer, arranger, bassist, and music educator in Boston, Massachusetts.
He holds a Ph.D. in jazz studies from New York University, a Master’s in Composition for Film, TV, Theater, and Multimedia from the University of Bristol (U.K.), and a Music Diploma in Jazz Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
Some of his most recent collaborations and projects include “Scanzonati, Sounds of Italy, Lou Salloum and Jamie Helou (Lebanon, Beirut), Kukaio Film Production (Munich, Germany), Traits de Marque in Paris, iAcoustica Studio drum library, iDrum Rock Edition for iPhone/iPad in collaboration with Izotope, arrangements and recording with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Don Sebesky, ABC, CBS, Cy Coleman, Burning Petals Music Production (U.K.), the Broadway Show "Swing" (St. James Theater, NYC), and the Grand Canyon Music Festival.
His latest album release is “A Place for You to Call Home”, available on all streaming platforms.
Andrea is also the author of various books, articles, and essays on the subject of music technology and jazz analysis. His most recent publications include: “Creating Sounds from Scratch” for Oxford University Press (http://a.co/8JuPJ78), and “Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer” for Focal Press (http://a.co/aLBw63e).
Andrea is currently a Professor (and former Chair) in the Contemporary Writing and Production Department at the world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@apejrolo
Web: www.apejrolo.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pejobass/
Stefano Marchese is an award-winning Italian singer-songwriter and educator. He has collaborated with Grammy winners Bobby McFerrin and Luis Enrique, among others. Thanks to his solo album Radici, in 2021 he was nominated by Serafini as one the 100 most relevant Abruzzesi abroad. The band leader of Scanzonati, along with bass player and Berklee faculty Andrea Pejrolo, Marchese has collaborated with stars of Italian musica leggera such as Mogol and Carmen Consoli. A radio and TV host and producer, his show L'Italia chiamò was aired on more than 40 TV channels in Italy and Europe, and has included Oscar-winning composer and director Nicola Piovani and Italian jazz and pop stars such as Chiara Civello, Zucchero, Levante, Durdast, and GeGé Telesforo. A Berklee faculty member and teaching artist for the Eliot School, Marchese has presented at national and international music education conferences and published work in music education journals on the topic of culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and technology in music education. As artistic director, he curates several series and festivals in New England, such as Jazz in the Park, Sounds of Italy, and Piazza All'Aperto among others.