Lorenzo Bellini is a pianist, composer and bandleader.  Strongly influenced by New York pianists Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Kirkland, Bellini’s composition incorporates a mixture of harmonic depth and melodic clarity and Gospel feel. The Garda Jazz Festival talks about his music as “vital energy, essential, pure, bright and deeply serious”.

In 2021 he released his first album of original compositions, Love Grain (listen here), recorded in Boston and featuring, among the others, Ilya Blazh, Giovanni and Matteo Cutello and Morgan Faw.  

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In 2021, he graduated from Berklee College of Music (Boston, US); after a few motnhs spent in NY, which marked the end of a period of 4 years of life in the States, he moved to London (UK), where he attended the Master in jazz Piano at the Royal Academy of Music.

As a bandleader he plays with the London based band Cloudy Peaks (Kasper Rietkerk, Guy Dempsey, Luke McCarthy) and the Italian  Bellini 4tet (Luca De Toni, Matteo Padoin, Andrea Dionisi). With the latter, in 2023, he was awarded the 1st prize at the Music 4 The Next Generation Contest in Italy and is about to release "Source", a new album coming out on May 30th 2025 with Gleam Records.

Musical Director and side man, he has performed with artists like Tiger Okoshi, Ni Maxine, Dennis Montgomery and and Roberta Gentile.

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As an educator, Lorenzo teaches at The Gospel University, a successful online educational platform founded by Gospel musician Vaughn Brathwaite