Towards Sanity

Joseph Pirrello was on his way to becoming a classical virtuoso on the piano when he experienced his first psychotic episode at the age of eighteen. Over the next decade and a half, he found himself struggling to maintain a façade of normalcy, while inside he slowly unravelled.

From his stint in an all-Italian wedding band to a year spent in Tuscany, where he lived a bohemian life surrounded by artists and musicians, to a jazz-soaked semester as a music student in Montreal, Joseph takes the ...