Flavio Zanuttini

Flavio Zanuttini is an Italian trumpeter, improviser and composer whose work moves between contemporary jazz, free improvisation and experimental sound. He studied jazz at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste and completed a master's degree in improvisation at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2013. His musical interests include the direct physical sound of the trumpet, unorthodox articulation and the relationship between prepared sound and open form.

His solo recordings include La Notte (2018), Ginkgo (2022) and the electroacoustic project Nickel Kosmo (2023). He leads the trio Opacipapa with Piero Bittolo Bon and Marco D'Orlando and has worked with improvisers including Zlatko Kaučič, Axel Dörner, Eugene Chadbourne and Jim O'Rourke. Through solo and ensemble performances, he examines the contrasting capacities of the trumpet for melodic gesture, texture and spontaneous musical development.

On Creative Sources, Flavio Zanuttini is credited on La Notte (CS505).