Alberto Pinton

Alberto Pinton is a jazz instrumentalist, composer and educator. He has performed jazz and improvised music since the mid-eighties, on all sizes of saxophones, clarinets and flutes.

His current projects as bandleader are Alberto Pinton’s Relentless, Alberto Pinton Trio, Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo and Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo.

He has released sixteen albums of original music with the following constellations: Alberto Pinton Clear Now, Dog Out, Alberto Pinton Quintet, Pinton/Kullhammar/Zetterberg/Nordeson, Alberto Pinton Nascent, Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo, Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo, Alberto Pinton Trio, Alberto Pinton Solo & the latest NUQuartet.

Alberto Pinton has toured and performed with Kenny Wheeler, John Surman, John Warren, Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider, Jerry Bergonzi, Lennart Åberg, Gugge Hedrenius, Bosse Broberg, Nils Landgren, Nils Lindberg, Georg Riedel, Lina Nyberg, Magnus Lindgren, Kenny Werner, Steve Grey, Norma Winstone, George Russell, Tim Hagans, Peter Erskine, Joe Lovano, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Adam Nussbaum, Lew Soloff, Dick Oatts, Jim McNeely, Danilo Perez, Kathrine Windfeld, bassist Avishai Cohen, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, Django Bates, Swedish Radio Jazz Group, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Norrbotten Big Band, Peter Asplund Jazz Orchestra, Håkan Broström New Places Orchestra, Ann-Sofi Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra, Bohuslän Big Band.

Alberto has also been teaching for more than twenty years; classes of ear training, improvisation, ensemble and instrumental lessons at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Master classes in Sweden, Italy, Canada and Panama.

Alberto has a Bachelor's Degree Summa Cum Laude in Saxophone Performance from Berklee College of Music - Boston (1990), a Master's Degree in Saxophone Performance from the Manhattan School of Music - New York (1995) and a Master’s Degree in Jazz Composition from the Royal College of Music - Stockholm (2023). Alberto’s teachers include Hamiet Bluiett, Joe Temperley, George Garzone, Joe Viola, Dick Oatts, Gary Smulyan, Jerry Bergonzi, John Purcell. Theory and composition studies with Ed Tomassi, Hal Crook, Maria Schneider, Ludmila Ulehla, Nils Vigeland, Peter Danemo, Johan Hammerth, Per Mårtensson.

Born and raised in Marghera, an industrial town outside of Venice, Italy, he currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

Gear

Saxophones

• Selmer Super Balanced Action Baritone Low A

• Selmer Mark VI Baritone Low Bb

• Selmer Mark VI Tenor

• Selmer Balanced Action Alto

• Selmer Mark VI Alto Low A

• Selmer Mark VI Soprano

• Selmer Mark VI Sopranino

• Buescher True Tone C-Melody

• Keilwerth Bass

Clarinets

• Buffet R13 Bb

• Selmer Bass to Low Eb

• Selmer Bass to low C

• Selmer Rosewood Contra-Alto

• Buffet Eb

Flutes

• Gemeinhardt Piccolo w/ Robert Bigio Headjoint

• Haynes C flute Silver w/ Low B Foot

• Gemeinhardt Alto w/ Eva Kingma Lip Plate

• Eva Kingma Bass

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