Vincent Peirani
Accordion
Vincent Peirani (1980) is a French accordionist, clarinettist, singer, and composer. Peirani was eleven years old when he started playing the accordion, and added the clarinet a year later. He studied classical clarinet at the conservatoire in Nice and at the CNSM in Paris. He won multiple awards between 1994 and 1998, including the Prix d'Accordeon Classique of the CNSM in Paris in 1998. That same year, he started focusing on jazz, for which he won an award at the Conservatoire of Paris in 2000.
Peirani has worked with, among others, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair (Sweet and Sour, 2011), Renaud Garcia-Fons, Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit), François Jeanneau, Youn Sun Nah, Denis Colin, and Anne Paceo. In 2010, he released his debut album Gunung Sebatu. He also created the album Tanguillo with the cellist François Salque. In 2015, he received two ECHO Jazz prizes, one for his duo album with Émile Parisien and one as an instrumentalist.
