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| Marco Perfetti at Canadian Music Week Berklee College of Music student Marco Perfetti, a singer-songwriter from Italy, has been selected to perform with his band Perfect Mark at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, May 6-10. Perfect Mark also features alumnus guitarist Vinicius Da Silva, and students, drummer Kiwoong Choi, bassist Derrick Elliott, and guitarist John Tyler Kent. The group – called Perfect Mark after the English translation of Perfetti's name – will perform at the festival on Tuesday, May 6, at Central. Canadian Music Week – the country's largest music festival – is one of the premier events in North America focusing on the business of music. The festival presents 1, 000 bands at more than 60 venues. This year features appearances by Quincy Jones, Diane Warren, Nile Rodgers, Deadmou5, Ellie Goulding, Tegan and Sara, and City and Colour. Perfetti applied to the festival through Reverb Nation and was chosen for the opportunity from hundreds of submissions. "It's the step forward that I was waiting for a long time, the chance to perform and introduce myself at the festival level, " said Perfetti. "And it's important for us, not only the performance, but also to attend the clinics, meetings, and conferences with promoters, producers, and publishers. It will be a great learning experience." He will soon release his debut album, Flesh and Voice, a collection of pop-rock songs influenced by R&B and funk. Perfettti wrote, produced and arranged all of the tracks on the album. The songs were performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by a team of fellow Berklee students at The Record Company studio in Boston. After Canadian Music Week, Perfetti heads to Italy for a two-week acoustic tour with two of his band-mates. Perfetti, a native of Massa, in Tuscany, Italy, has been singing and giving voice lessons since he was a teenager. He started auditioning for competitions in 2008, and advanced to the Judge's House on the first edition of the Italian X-Factor. In 2009, he was awarded a scholarship to attend CET music school in Italy. Perfetti came to Berklee in 2012, where he is a professional music major, after being awarded a scholarship at the Umbria Jazz Festival. Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For more than 65 years, the college has evolved to reflect the current state of the music industry, leading the way with baccalaureate studies in performance, music business/management, songwriting, music therapy, film scoring, and more. With a focus on global learning, Berklee in Valencia, a new campus in Spain, is hosting the college's first graduate programs, while Berklee Online serves distance learners worldwide with extension classes and degreegranting programs. The Berklee City Music Network provides afterschool programming for underserved teens in 45 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. With a student body representing nearly 100 countries and alumni and faculty that have won more than 310 Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today—and tomorrow. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |