About

Alessio Bruno's career as a musician began in his hometown of Modena, Italy. After an initial introduction to guitar he soon switched to electric bass and then double bass which would become his main instrument. His formal training and entry into professional performance began with classical studies at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Vecchi Tonelli in Modena.

He then relocated to the Netherlands to study first in The Hague, completing both a bachelor's degree in classical performance and a minor degree in jazz performance at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and then in Rotterdam, where he completed a research master's of music in jazz performance at Codarts.

As a result of his formal training and diverse performance experiences, Bruno enjoys and excels in a range of genres from classical to free improvisational jazz, latin, folk, and theater.

Bruno's first CD purchase as a teenager was "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" which set the scene for early influences like Charles Mingus, Paul Motian, and Paul Blee.

His most recent improvisational projects focus on the overlap of improvisation with philosophy. How does improvisation function as a tool between people, facilitating development of abstract concepts like trust, freedom, courage, possibility, and power? How do constraints promote participation and adaptation? What kinds of choices can we make both as individuals and collectively, and what unexpected outcomes can we achieve?

Education and coaching has become an important aspect of Alessio’s career and is very connected with his approach to improvisation.

He honed his approach at the Conservatorio G. F. Ghedini in Cuneo, Italy, as a professor teaching Musica Insieme Jazz (jazz ensemble), and Harmonia Jazz (jazz harmony) and guiding individual students through thesis work across instruments and voice. The main tenets of his educational philosophy are rooted in history of the genre as well as heavily informed by the contemporary scene. The audiotattili (audiotactile) theory of musical improvisation developed by Professor Vincenzo Capolaretti drives his pedagogical and musicological methodology, having studied with Caporaletti during his master’s in Jazz Ensemble Education at Università di Roma Tre (2025).

Alessio also does client coaching for groups and individuals in jazz, latin, crossover and other genres. He has also worked on projects, managing the production of an amateur musician's album from start to finish with a package that included songwriting and performance coaching, personal performance contribution, and production work, resulting in a seven track digital release.