Rich Pellegrin

Rich Pellegrin

Rich Pellegrin is a musician, scholar, and educator. A professor of music at the University of Florida, he lives in the Seattle area when not teaching in Gainesville, FL. As a pianist, composer, and bandleader, he has released five albums. Pellegrin has written extensively about Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, Robert Glasper, and Bill Evans. His research has been presented at conferences around the world and featured on the NPR segment The Academic Minute. His writings appear in numerous books and journals and he recently served as Guest Editor of a special issue of Jazz Perspectives devoted to John Coltrane. Pellegrin is currently a faculty member in the University of Florida Department of Composition, Theory, and Technology, and is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. He previously taught at the University of Washington and the University of Missouri.