Richard Pizzorno - Connections (2020)

He started playing the accordion at the age of three, then he took cello lessons at the Monaco Academy of Music.
In addition to this teaching, he studied the organ, then the piano and played in various jazz and variety orchestras.

Richard Pizzorno has notably played with Barney WILEM (sax Miles DAVIS), Michel LEGRAND, Frank SINATRA, Sammy DAVIS Jr., Whitney HOUSTON, Julia MIGENES-JOHNSON, Ronnie CUBER (sax George Benson), George ROBERT, Sandy PATTON, ...
He accompanied on tour Michel FUGAIN, Anna PRUCNAL, Magali NOËL, and, as a member of PEPE LIENHARD BAND, Udo JÜRGENS and Catarina VALENTE.
During various television programs, it was for ELSA, Laurent VOULZY, ADAMO and Mireille MATHIEU that Richard Pizzorno was at the piano.
As part of the Rose d'Or in Montreux, he played for Quincy JONES, during the QUINCY JONES Show.
At the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, he played the first part of the concert by Joe SAMPLE's group, the CRUSADERS ...
A highly appreciated studio musician, Richard Pizzorno no longer counts the recording sessions performed throughout Europe, among others with André CECARELLI and Jean-Paul CECARELLI (ex-drummer STING and Chick COREA). He knows no borders, since in HONG-KONG English and Chinese television have benefited from his services ...

He takes part in numerous recording sessions as an arranger, composer, producer and musician.
Would you have guessed it? He produced the soundtracks for various shows of the Swiss comic: Marie Thérèse Porchet.
He regularly performs at concerts and festivals in various formations, in particular as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Basel, Zurich, Geneva, the Biel Symphony Orchestra or the M.I.T Symphonic Orchestra of Boston (USA).
We find him with groups like Panorama-Syndicate, Daccordeon, Richard Pizzorno Trio, Richard Pizzorno Hammond Trio, 676 Nuevotango, Viaggio, Double Version, Volver ...
Richard Pizzorno, on the keyboard, also provided musical direction for the Hair comedy in Friborg, Switzerland, in spring 2017.