TRUMPETER / COMPOSER / IMPROVISER

LINA ALLEMANO is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, prolific composer, and bandleader with an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in experimental, conceptual, improvised and jazz settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, Allemano moved to Toronto in 1993. She is educated in both classical and jazz trumpet and specializes in extended technique on her instrument. Allemano now splits her time between the music scenes in TORONTO and BERLIN, and she runs her own internationally-acclaimed record label LUMO RECORDS.

Allemano composes music primarily for her forward-thinking acoustic quartet LINA ALLEMANO FOUR, nominated for the 2022 JUNO Awards Jazz Album of the Year (Group), as well as her Berlin-based power-trio OHRENSCHMAUS. She recently composed a collection of unconventional canons for trumpet & creative chamber ensembles which were recorded & released in 2023 on the album Canons. Her other projects as bandleader include the trumpet / live-processing duo BLOOP and the electric improvising quartet TITANIUM RIOT. In 2020, she released a solo album Glimmer Glammer and she continues to explore the trumpet in a solo context.

Allemano is busy collaborating with many of today’s top groundbreaking musicians in countless international creative projects, and she is a permanent member of various ensembles based in Toronto and Berlin including Rob Clutton’s CLUTTERTONES, Dead Leaf Butterfly (w/Els Vandeweyer, Maike Hilbig, Lucia Martinez), and Peter Van Huffel’s CALLISTO. She has been releasing albums and touring extensively with her own bands and many others all across Canada, USA and Europe for years. As a session musician, Allemano's trumpet playing can also be heard on countless albums, film and television soundtracks.

Lina Allemano was named in both 2022 & 2023 in DownBeat Magazine's Annual International Critics Poll for 'Rising Star Trumpet', and her band Lina Allemano Four was named both years for 'Rising Star Jazz Group'. Allemano was featured as one of the top innovative trumpeters for the future in DownBeat Magazine and called one of the most exciting new voices of the last few years by Brian Morton, Point of Departure. Her trumpet playing, compositions and artistic vision have gained her international recognition as being adventurous, expressive, compelling, inventive and sophisticated.