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. 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 trumpeter Josh Deutsch and they have toured nationally and internationally to promote their record Time Gels and Reverse Angle. He’s also part of Out of Your Head Brooklyn, a collective which includes some of New York’s finest improvisers 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.