Cinzia Gizzi, pianist and composer, began to study classical music at the age of eight. She first developed a passion for jazz music as a university student, after moving from her native town of Pescara, in the Abruzzo, to Rome, where she currently lives and works.Since the late 1970s, early 1980s she has been playing for many years in jazz clubs in Rome, having the opportunity to play with many famous Italian musicians and also American artists touring in Italy including: Joe Newman, Harry Sweets Edison, Johnny Griffin, Wild Bill Davison, Al Cohn, Earl Warren, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Robin Kenyatta, Pepper Adams, Hal Singer, Dusko Gojkovitch, Al Grey, George Masso, Benny Bailey, Jon Faddis, Tom Kirkpatrick, Jens Sondergard, The Lars Gullin Memorial Band, Tony Scott, Ray Mantilla and Keith Copeland, Eddie Henderson and others.In 1988 she won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston graduating with a Diploma in 1990. During this period, she studied privately with Jakie Byard, in New York, and Charlie Banacos (Boston), with whom she continued to study for many years by correspondence.As leader of her own groups she has played at all the major Jazz Festivals in Italy, including. Foggia, La Spezia, Bari, Fano, Pescara, Perugia, Sanremo, Comacchio, Roma, Bologna, Orvieto, Lanciano, Atessa, Trapani, San Severino, Guglionesi., Lanciano and in 2001 was invited to perform at the Eurojazz Città del Messico and Festival del Centro Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico en Tlaxcala. Abroad she has performed also in Portugual, Poland, Brasil and Spain.She has played with the Santa Cecilia Symphonic Orchestra directed by Luciano Berio (1990, Auditorium Santa Cecilia, Rome), and in many radio and television programs.Since academic year 1995/96 she held the Jazz chair at the Conservatories of Music in Reggio Calabria, Trieste, Messina, L’Aquila, Latina and Rome. In the academic year 1995/96, she was the first woman to hold the “Jazz” chair in Italy.In 2016 she published the musical analysis book Arrangiatori Jazz, pagine d’autore in un percorso storico di analisi musicale, for the Aracne Editor, becoming director of the musical analysis series Il Suono e il Tempo, 7notelette/re, for the same Editor. The second volume Arrangiatori Jazz II, pagine d’autore in un percorso storico di analisi musicale. The contrapuntists, was released in 2020. Soon to be published is the English language version of this second volume.In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the XXVIII international Women’s Profile Award (Profilo Donna, Modena, Italy).Cinzia Gizzi, pianist and composer, began to study classical music at the age of eight. She first developed a passion for jazz music as a university student, after moving from her native town of Pescara, in the Abruzzo, to Rome, where she currently lives and works. Since the late 1970s, early 1980s she has been playing for many years in jazz clubs in Rome, having the opportunity to play with many famous Italian musicians and also American artists touring in Italy including: Joe Newman, Harry Sweets Edison, Johnny Griffin, Wild Bill Davison, Al Cohn, Earl Warren, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Robin Kenyatta, Pepper Adams, Hal Singer, Dusko Gojkovitch, Al Grey, George Masso, Benny Bailey, Jon Faddis, Tom Kirkpatrick, Jens Sondergard, The Lars Gullin Memorial Band, Tony Scott, Ray Mantilla and Keith Copeland, Eddie Henderson and others. In 1988 she won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston graduating with a Diploma in 1990. During this period, she studied privately with Jakie Byard, in New York, and Charlie Banacos (Boston), with whom she continued to study for many years by correspondence. As leader of her own groups she has played at all the major Jazz Festivals in Italy, including. Foggia, La Spezia, Bari, Fano, Pescara, Perugia, Sanremo, Comacchio, Roma, Bologna, Orvieto, Lanciano, Atessa, Trapani, San Severino, Guglionesi., Lanciano and in 2001 was invited to perform at the Eurojazz Città del Messico and Festival del Centro Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico en Tlaxcala. Abroad she has performed also in Portugual, Poland, Brasil and Spain. She has played with the Santa Cecilia Symphonic Orchestra directed by Luciano Berio (1990, Auditorium Santa Cecilia, Rome), and in many radio and television programs. Since academic year 1995/96 she held the Jazz chair at the Conservatories of Music in Reggio Calabria, Trieste, Messina, L’Aquila, Latina and Rome. In the academic year 1995/96, she was the first woman to hold the “Jazz” chair in Italy. In 2016 she published the musical analysis book Arrangiatori Jazz, pagine d’autore in un percorso storico di analisi musicale, for the Aracne Editor, becoming director of the musical analysis series Il Suono e il Tempo, 7notelette/re, for the same Editor. The second volume Arrangiatori Jazz II, pagine d’autore in un percorso storico di analisi musicale. The contrapuntists, was released in 2020. Soon to be published is the English language version of this second volume. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the XXVIII international Women’s Profile Award (Profilo Donna, Modena, Italy). 
