Paul Giallorenzo
(b. 1977)

Born and raised in NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, and electronics in a wide variety of groups and contexts, ranging from jazz and improvised music to electro-acoustic / noise. Current projects include GitGO (482 Music, free jazz compositions); Breakway (Friends and Relatives, electro/acoustic improvising trio with electronicist Brian Labycz and drummer Marc Riordan); Masul (Creative Sources Recordings, duo with Swiss composer/bass saxophonist Thomas Mejer); The Telegraph Series (Augmented Records, synth-pop duo with drummer/vocalist Allison Stanley); and a piano trio featuring Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Tim Daisy.

Paul also currently performs in groups led by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and reedist/composer Guillermo Gregorio, and works with many other local musicians, including Jeb Bishop, Mars Williams, Dave Rempis, Josh Berman, Rob Mazurek, Jason Stein, Matt Lux, Nate McBride, Jason Ajemian, Frank Rosaly, Charles Rumback, Mike Reed, as well many Swiss musicians including Urs Leimgruber, Charlotte Hug, Beat Unternährer, Lionel Friedli, Marc Unternährer, and Martin Baumgartner.

Paul has composed and performed music and sound for film company Split Pillow ("Brushfires", 2004) and Naked Eye Theatre Company ("Nickel and Dimed", Steppenwolf Theatre, 2003). Additionally, Paul has collaborated with Swiss performance-artist Claudia Bucher on several installations in Chicago and Luzern, and also has performed sound in duet with dancer Irina Lorez, also from Luzern.

As a producer and concert organizer, Paul is a co-founder and director of Elastic Arts, a non-profit organization that operates the creative music and visual arts venue Elastic <elasticarts.org>.

He has thrice been funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs for new work, and has performed at the WNUR Chicago Sounds Jazzfest. Outside of Chicago, Paul has performed throughout the mid-west, north, and south-eastern U.S.; in São Paulo, Brazil; and throughout Switzerland - including a 2008 artist-in-residency organized through the Chicago-Lucerne Sister City Committee. Paul's work can be found on labels 482 Music, Creative Sources, Augmented Records, Silver Wonder Records, and Elastic Sound Series.