FULVIO SIGURTA’
TRUMPETER - COMPOSER - EDUCATOR
 
 
 

Fulvio Sigurtà started playing the trumpet at a very early age, and at 15 he entered the “Conservatorio Luca Marenzio” in Brescia. Here, in ’98, he achieved his Diploma in Classical Trumpet. In 2003 he moved to Boston to take up a scholarship at the Berkley College of Music, achieving a Diploma in Jazz in 2004 at the Brescia Conservatory and in 2005, he received a Masters with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.


His professional career started in 2004,while based in the UK capital, he had the opportunity to record with Cam Jazz on the very prestigious project, “Pure and Simple”, with The Guildhall Big Band and John Taylor and the same month he was involved in Gianni Coscia’s quartet together with Dino Piana and Enzo Petropaoli, with whom he recorded the album “Frescobaldi per noi” which is a “jazz revisited” version of some fabulous music of Girolamo Frescobaldi from the renaissance period.


Those two projects were followed thought the years by prestigious Italian and English collaborations both in studio and on tour including several recordings with Nostalgia 77 ,Giovanni Guidi’s Unknown Rebel band; Susaphonix (Mauro Ottolini); The Broken Band (Andrea Lombardini), Lyria dancing company (Giulia Gussago), Paolo Damiani , Enzo Pietropaoli “Yatra” quartet, Mayra Andrade, Cristina Zavalloni & Radar Band,Battista Lena, Bruno Heinen, Gabriele Mirabassi, Lydian Sound Orchestra,Jamie Cullum, Keith Tippet Octet and many many others.



In 2007 he produced his first album as band leader entitled “Conversations” (Impossible Ark Records), a duo with guitarist Federico Casagrande.


In 2010 he produced “Coincidence” (Palomar Records), a duo with bassist Giovanni Maier.


In 2011 he began a productive relationship with prestigious Jazz label, Cam Jazz, who have released three of his albums to great acclaim:


“ House of Cards” (2011)


“Through The Journey” (2012);


“SPL”  (2013).


In 2012 Sigurtà was the recipient of the “Best New Talent” Award in the Italian Top Jazz’ Referendum.