NICO SOFFIATO & KIM ANDERSON

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 “2×3 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.
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KIM ANDERSON is a composer, songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, gardener and mother based in Upstate New York. Raised by jazz musician parents in New York City, she grew up absorbing a diverse blend of musical genres, going on to study composition formally at conservatory and to write music for an eclectic range of different ensembles. Her music is decidedly difficult to pin down or define by genre; its throughline remains attention to detail, intimate and personal lyrics, and a deeply thoughtful approach to arrangement and texture.
Her first studio album, ‘Yarrow,’ was produced by Benjamin Lazar Davis and released on Biophilia records in 2018. Her sophomore album ‘Asphodel,’ also produced by Davis, was released in 2023 on Sempervirens Studios.
Kim has always sought to capture in her music the strange and delightful encounter between the organic and the human-wrought, that shoreline on which truly wild things, raised in a world of rhyme and reason, find their escape.