Bio

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Flavio Zanuttini is a trumpeter, improviser and experimenter. Tireless research is what characterizes him in whatever musical sphere he gets involved. Under his own name he has released two solo records, La Notte (Creative Sources Recordings/Umland Records 2018) and Ginkgo (Pork Bristle 2022), one record with his trio Opacipapa, Born Baby Born (Clean Feed 2018); one electroacoustic solo record Nickel Kosmo “in principio era il nichel” (Record Y, 2023); one record in duo with Zlatko Kaučič “Peace in Space” (Folderol Records, 2024); and a trio and electronics album – Requiem for Democracy (Aut Records, 2026), in addition to dozens of other works as co-leader or sideman.

Over the years he has had the pleasure of playing all over Europe, South America, the USA and Australia collaborating with artists of all genres.

In 2018, the album Born Baby Born (Clean Feed Records) with his trio Opacipapa—alongside Piero Bittolo Bon on alto sax and Marco D’Orlando on drums—was voted among the best international jazz albums of 2018 by the Portuguese portal jazz.pt.

In 2026, the album Requiem for Democracy (Aut Records) won the Premio Malaguti at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste.

He played in festivals and clubs such as: A L’ARME (Berlin), International Jazz Festival (Münster), Zomer Jazz Fietstour (Groningen), Jazzy Colours (Parigi), Centro D’Arte Padova, Catania Jazz, Udin&Jazz, Süd Tirol Jazz Festival (Bolzano), Cormons Jazz & Wine, Trentino in Jazz (Trento), Pordenone Blues Festival, Veneto Jazz, Tarcento Jazz, Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), B-flat (Berlino), Casa del Jazz (Roma), Jazzstudio (Norimberga), Bunker Ulmenwall (Bielefeld), Domicil (Dortmund), Projazz Festival (Dortmund), Jazz Club (Ferrara), Jazz Wide (Pisa), Novara Jazz and many others.

He played with Jim O’Rourke, Eugene Chadbourne, Fabrizio Puglisi, Axel Dörner, Torben Snekkestad, Zlatko Kaucic, Giovanni Maier, Francesco Cusa, Giorgio Pacorig, Piero Bittolo Bon, Cristiano Arcelli, Paolo Sorge, Giulio Stermieri, Ryan Carniaux, Kyle Gregory, Giovanni Benvenuti, Luca Dell’Anna, Andrea Toffanelli and many others.

EDUCATION

In 2009 he has obtained the Bachelor in Jazz in the Conservatory of music “Tartini” in Trieste.

Later he moved to Essen, Germany, where he obtained the Master Improvising Artist at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in 2013.

In 2017 he obtained the Master in Jazz in the Conservatory of music “Tartini” in Trieste.

In 2020 he has obtained the Master in Classical Trumpet in the Conservatory of music “Tomadini” in Udine.

In 2025 he has obtained the Master in Jazz Trumpet in the Conservatory of music “Tartini” in Trieste.

As lead trumpeter he studied with Andy Haderer (lead trumpet of the WDR Big Band), Kyle Gregory and Rudiger Baldauf.

For improvisation among the most influential teachers there have been Uli Beckerhoff, Hugo Read, Bruno Cesselli, Giovanni Maier, Kyle Gregory, Klaus Gesing.