Teaching

Giovanni Ceccarelli is a very active jazz educator, with more than 30 years of international teaching experience. He has obtained the French national diploma (DE) as jazz piano professor and he is currently teaching jazz piano at the CRR in Cergy-Pontoise and at the CRD Quincy Jones in Mantes-la-Jolie, France.

He is a jazz music instructor on demand for private lessons, in person and online.

As a duo with double bassist Ferruccio Spinetti, he gives workshops and masterclasses, working with the students on the music by Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone and the Italian jazz composers.

Giovanni also gives workshops, initiating classical pianists and piano students to the joy of improvising. 

In 1999 he is invited for a Visiting Artist Lecture, together with USA guitarist and faculty member Garrison Fewell, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, USA. Giovanni has been founding member and president of InJazz Cultural Association (2000-2012), organising, being in charge of the didactic direction, and teaching at the InJazz Summer Clinics (14 editions) and SpringInJazz Music Seminars (4 editions) in Italy. He teaches internationally, giving jazz courses at the French Cultural Institute in Damascus, Syria, teaching jazz piano at the National Music Conservatories A. Vivaldi in Alessandria and V. Bellini in Catania, giving masterclasses at the Siena Jazz University, Italy, working as music instructor in the USA, Lebanon and Indonesia. In 2020 Giovanni launches an online music education program on Patreon, which is active for two years.