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Nico Soffiato
Nico Soffiato, Italian guitarist, composer and educator, currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. After receiving his Master’s degree in philosophy with a thesis on the ontology of music, he moved to Boston. There he attended Berklee College of Music, thanks to a Best Entering Talent Students scholarship, and graduated magna cum laude. At Berklee he studied performance and composition with David Tronzo, Jon Damian, Hal Crook, Ed Tomassi and Jeff Galindo to mention a few. Nico was also selected to be part of an all-guitar ensemble whose members included notable alumni like Bill Frisell, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mike Stern and Wolfgang Muthspiel.
In New York, aside from being the front man of OST Quartet, he leads the improvised music group Paradigm Refrain. The group has a diverse cast and guests have included: David Tronzo, Darius Jones, Jesse Stacken, Jason Nazary, Nate Wooley, Sunny Kim, Marco Cappelli, Zeno de Rossi, Fraser Campbell, Marco Buccelli, Noah Kaplan, and many others.
Nico co-leads a duo with Grammy-award winning trumpeter Josh Deutsch and they have toured nationally and internationally to promote their records Redshift, Time Gels and Reverse Angle. Together they co-curate the “2x3 series" in New York, which brings together three duos in one night for a mix of separate performances and collaborations. The series has featured many outstanding musicians with established duo projects. These are the musicians who participated, in chronological order: Jonathan Moritz, Carlo Costa, Dave Grollman, Sean Ali, Kirk Knuffke, Jesse Stacken, Landon Knoblock, Elena Camerin, Dan Weiss, Samarth Nagarkar, Dov Manski, Kristin Slipp, Peter Eldridge, Matt Aronoff, Lathan Hardy, Dan Blake, Leo Geonovese, Aaron Shragge, Ben Monder, Pascal Niggenkemper, Thomas Heberer, Mariel Berger, Erika Kapin, Giacomo Merega, Wes Matthews.
He’s also part of Out of Your Head Brooklyn, a collective which includes some of New York’s finest improvisers, like Gerald Cleaver, Tony Malaby and Oscar Noriega, to mention a few.
He co-leads Dogwood with bassist Zach Swanson. Their debut album is out on the Italian label nusica.org.
He’s a sought-after sideman and has played, recorded and toured with many musicians from the New York music scene.
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Josh Deutsch/Nico Soffiato Trio: Redshift
by Dan Bilawsky
The longstanding partnership between trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato, placed in flattering light on the ever- welcoming Time Gels (Self-produced, 2011) and Reverse Angle (Self-Produced, 2015), continues to bear fruit with Redshift, the pair's first album for the Italian nusica.org imprint. Focusing on the trio format by working alternately with two of the jazz world's most notable drumming forces--the irrepressible Allison Miller and the boundless Dan Weiss--Deustch and Soffiato create open windows into numerous worlds of sound and ...
Continue ReadingNico Soffiato: OST Quartet
by Vincenzo Roggero
Tre brani di poco più di due minuti che esibiscono il solitario lirismo dei tre compagni di viaggio, un'altra manciata di esecuzioni di breve durata nelle quali il quartetto spazia tra droni ossessivi e riflessive meditazioni sul suono, e ancora tre brani di oltre i dieci minuti che costituiscono il nocciolo duro dell'incisione. Nico Soffiato, chitarrista e compositore italiano da tempo residente a New York e assiduo frequentatore della scena più creativa, organizza in questo modo il debutto discografico dell'OST ...
Continue ReadingNico Soffiato Quartet "Just Add Water"
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Michael Ricci
With all the members of the Nico Soffiato Quartet residing in New York City, the group began playing and performing together in 2008. Incorporating influences from the variety of jazz scenes in the city, each member of the Quartet weaves their own life and musical experience into the composition, performance and improvisation of each tune. Collaborating on all fronts, most of the music on the record is composed and arranged by Nico Soffiato. Playing extensively around New York City, the ...
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“With creative treatments and impressive attention to nuance, the ensemble crafts intriguing, enigmatic music that stands out from the otherwise oversaturated jazz scene and its tired sound.” John Engelmann, Knocks from the Underground NYC “Soffiato is a player who has studied the greats during his upbringing, but has also managed to develop a unique voice along the way; not an easy task for any player to achieve.” “…Just Add Water brings to light all of the things that make modern jazz great: openness to interaction, solid grooves and a respect for the tradition while firmly looking forward.” Matthew Warnock "Nico's solos are often the most relaxed yet still tell thoughtful stories" -Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC
