Paul Giallorenzo

Originally from Long Island, NY,  Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe. \ \ Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde material. Writing in the online journal Point Of Departure, John Litweiler said, “His solos and aggressive duets are gems of after-Bop, after-Bley melody,” while AllAboutJazz.org lauded music that “smudges the lines between the tradition and the avant-garde.”\ \ His work can be found on the Chicago-based Delmark Records and Austin-based Astral Spirits labels, as well as various other imprints including Leo Records (UK), Not Two Records (Poland), and 482 Music (NY).\ \ Giallorenzo is the Artistic Director of the intermedia arts organization Homeroom and a co-founder and programmer of the music venue/art gallery Elastic Arts, producing hundreds of creative music concerts and art events in Chicago since 2001.\ \ Current Projects include:\ PG Trio (Delmark) piano trio with Joshua Abrams - bass, Mikel Avery - drums\ Hearts & Minds (Astral Spirits) synthesizer/electric piano trio with Jason Stein - bass clarinet, Chad Taylor - drums;\ RedGreenBlue (Astral Spirits) pump organ/electronics in minimal experimental group with Ben LaMar Gay, Ryan Packard, Charlie Kirchen;\ Hatcher/Giallorenzo/Kirshner saxophone/piano/drums trio playing music of Frank Wright and Cecil Taylor + originals;\ Masul (Creative Sources) synthesizer duo with Thomas Mejer - contrabass saxophone, new record coming in Spring 2025;\ SOTOL (bandcamp) synthesizer/electronics duo with Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - e bass/electronics\ \ \ Past Projects include:\ Scanlines (Vimeo) synthesizer/electronics with Kim Alpert - video, Cristal Sabbagh/Jasmine Mendoza - movement, Anton Hatwich - bass;\ GitGO (Delmark, Leo, 482 Music) piano quintet including: Josh Berman - cornet, Jeb Bishop - trombone, Anton Hatwich - bass, Quin Kirchner - drums, Dave Rempis - saxophones, Marc Riordan - drums, Frank Rosaly - drums, Mars Williams - reeds\ Gregorio/Giallorenzo Duo (Peira) piano/prepared piano duo with Guillermo Gregorio - clarinet\ PG 3 (Nottwo Records) piano trio with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - bass, Tim Daisy - drums;\ Breakway (Peira) with synthesizer trio with Brian Labycz - synthesizer, Marc Riordan - drums