A Benefit Concert for the Veronica Pellitteri Memorial Fund

(September 17, 2015)
An Event and Memorial Fund not to be missed: Birdland Jazz Club, Sunday October 4th at 6pm. Great jazz drummer Marcello Pellitteri with several special guests pay homage to the memory of his beloved daughter Veronica Pellitteri.



Appearing at Birdland with Marcello will be an all-star rhythm section with pianist Bruce Barth and bassist Essiet Okon Essiet.

 

Special guests appearing will be singers Lauren Kinhan and Kim Nazarian (from New York Voices), Philip Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Chiara Civello, clarinetist Anat Cohen and more surprise guests... 

 

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of my daughter Veronica: a benefit concert to raise funds for the Veronica Pellitteri Memorial Fund. 

For donations to the fund please go to >>>


This is a fund of the Fiorello LaGuardia Performing Arts High School where Veronica graduated from in 2009.

Veronica was a pianist / singer, who matched talent and passion to motivation and sense of responsibility.

This fund will create an annual scholarship in her name FOREVER. This scholarship is intended as an aid for college tuition.

The awarded student will have to demonstrate those qualities that Veronica possesed.

In this way this scholarship will make Veronica's spirit live forever.

 

Bio: Marcello Pellitteri.

World-class musician, Marcello Pellitteri is best known as an award-winning drummer. Pellitteri is also an accomplished pianist, educator, composer, arranger and producer.

Pellitteri graduated Cum Laude at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and then received a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies with Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music.

For nearly 29 years, Pellitteri has taught at Berklee, where he is currently a Professor. He has played with jazz legends such as Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Jon Hendricks; with Grammy award winners New York Voices, Dave Samuels, Slide Hampton, Paquito D’Rivera; with orchestras such as the Boston Pops, the Taipei Philharmonic and with the world renown Gipsy Kings.

He has scored music for several theater plays.

Moreover he has performed for prominent international political figures, Royal families and Head of States, such as President Clinton at the White House, Prince Alberto of Monaco in Montecarlo and Princess Margriet of The Netherlands.

Pellitteri has recorded over 70 CDs and he has appeared on the stages of worldwide festivals and broadcast programs with concerts at Radio City Music Hall, Boston Symphony Hall;, and performances on NBCˆs Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien as well as numerous Asian, South American and European radio and TV shows.

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