Joe Parillo

Pianist and composer Joe Parillo has a Masters Degree from New England Conservatory in Composition, and has written and arranged music for theater and film.

His most recent work, Rhode Island Remembers, has aired on WSBE-TV. Joe has been commissioned to write three Jazz Ballets and has arranged and recorded over twenty-five full length children's productions, including the music, lyrics and book for his musical, With A Twist.

Parillo has also produced SongBook, Clouds, and most recently the CDs, Almost Carefree and Block Island Summer with his Ensemble, and co-wrote and produced the gospel CD, Meditations of the Heart. Additionally, he has recorded two CDs with the Sonic Explorers, a Worcester-based group.

His Christmas CD, The Angels Gather with saxophonist David Key, and his latest trio CD Morning In The Garden, are all available through his own Neoga Records label.

Joe has recently completed a MasterClass CD for JazzPlayer Magazine and writes a jazz column Spontaneous Inventions for the Rhode Island Music Educators Review, published quarterly.

He has toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and is currently Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Rhode Island and an active member of the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Workshops in New York. As of this year Joe Parillo has joined the Steinway Artists' roster.