Paride Pignotti is an Italian guitarist and composer who mixes the passion of jazz with a taste of Mediterran sounds in his music. During his career he has collaborated with some of the best italian musicians as Javier Girotto and Nicola Stilo and has played in jazz festivals such as Rome jazz festival, Time in jazz, Bari in jazz, Nice Jazz Festival, Piacenza Jazz Festival, Nuoro Jazz, Fara Music Festival and many others. In 2018 he recorded his first album called 43 Parallelo for Emme Record Label.

In 2020 he recorded his second album called “Acquamarina” with the guitarist Jacopo Schiavo and with Special guest Javier Girotto on sax and Marco Bruno on Acoustic Bass for WOW Record. In the same year he was admitted into master program in Contemporary Performance at Berklee College of Music with a full scholarship where he had the chance to study with some of the best musicians in the world such as Danilo Perez, Joel Lovano, John Patitucci, Marco Pignataro, George Garzone, Allan Chase, Terri Lyne Carrington, David Gilmore and many others.

As a sideman, he recorded electric, classical and acoustic guitar for Federica Lipuma quartet for the Label Inner Circle produced by Greg Osby. He has been selected as a finalist in different contests such as “Massimo Urbani” Competition, “Chicco Bettinardi”, “Vittoria Jazz Constest” and he won several ones such as:

-AIR project in which he had the chance to go to an artistic residence in Senegal for a month to learn Senegalese’s music with Noumoucounda Cissoko, a Kora Player, and to play in the main festivals and clubs in Dakar.

-At “Nuoro Jazz” he won a scholarship as the best student and he had the opportunity to play in all the principal festivals of Sardinia (Italy).

-“6 accordionart festival & contests” he won the first place in the jazz section.