Concerts

Giovanni Ottomano playing the saxophone on a dark stage

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Past concerts

2026

  • In Jazz! Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni, dir. Federico Mondelci

    Teatro Sociale, Trento

    Gershwin, Bernstein, Mangani, Morricone, Nestico, Corea, Piazzolla, Iorio, Geiss

  • In Jazz! Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni, dir. Federico Mondelci

    Accademia Cusanus, Bressanone

    Gershwin, Bernstein, Mangani, Morricone, Nestico, Corea, Piazzolla, Iorio, Geiss

  • L'infinito e i suoi limiti, graduation recital

    ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sciarrino, Leroux, Scelsi, Van Parys, Fujikura, Berio

  • Zurich Saxophone Collective, MIMIKO Lunch concert

    Elisabethenkirche, Basel, Switzerland

    Norris, Strauss

  • Saxophone duo, opening of the exhibition Beyond

    KulturSchüür, Männedorf, Switzerland

    Felix Baumann, KippMoment

  • Solastalgia, Zurich Saxophone Collective, dir. Lars Mlekusch

    Johanneskirche, Zurich, Switzerland

    Youngerman, Poulenc, Norris, Strauss

2025

  • Metamorphosen, Zurich Saxophone Collective, dir. Lars Mlekusch

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Wagner, Norris, Strauss

  • Soloist and duo

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Glazunov, Concerto; Stockhausen, Knabenduett

  • Soloist

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Berio, Sequenza IXb

  • Kiwanis Prize winners' concert

    Toni-Areal, Grosser Konzertsaal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Bozza, Andante et Scherzo

  • Lange Nacht, art_is_try

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    James Tenney, Form 3

  • Quartetto Arioso

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Xenakis, XAS

  • Spektrum, Zurich Saxophone Collective

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Wolff, Burkali, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns, Kilar

  • Soloist and Quartetto Arioso

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Scelsi, Tre pezzi; Desenclos, Quatuor; Bozza, Andante et Scherzo

  • Zurich Saxophone Collective, dir. Lars Mlekusch

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Wolff, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns

2024

  • Soloist and Zurich Saxophone Collective

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Wolff, Isn't this a time; Bach, Partita n. 1

  • Soloist and Quartetto Arioso

    Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

    Rivier, Grave et Presto; Berio, Sequenza IXb

2023

  • Saxophone quartet, Rencontres Musicales de Méditerranée

    Bastia, Corsica

    Girotto, Corea, Lago, Piazzolla

  • Quartetto Interludo, Lunae Musica

    Sala Consiliare, Sarzana

    Joplin, Girotto, Piazzolla, Nyman, Frati, Goodwin, Ros

  • With Maurizio Baglini, cond. Alessandro Bombonati. Il Bosco delle Emozioni, Rai documentary

    Palazzina Gonzaghesca di Bosco Fontana, Marmirolo

    Girotto, Piazzolla, Lago, Gershwin

  • Quartetto Interludo, Classica in Jeans

    Museo Diocesano, La Spezia

    Piazzolla, Girotto, Frati, Morricone, Nyman, Ros

  • Saxophonist with the AYSO Orchestra

    Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari

    Bernstein, Gershwin

2022

  • Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni

    Piazza Giovanni XXIII, Trecastelli

  • Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni

    Chiostro di Sant'Agostino, Civitanova Alta

  • Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni

    Ente Concerti di Pesaro, Palazzo Ducale, Urbania

  • Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni

    Emilia Romagna Festival, Rocca di Bagnara, Bagnara di Romagna

  • Orchestra Italiana di Sassofoni, dir. Federico Mondelci

    Museo della Mezzadria, Senigallia

    Gabrieli, Bernstein, Gershwin, Morricone, Rota, Iorio, Jobim, Piazzolla, Molinelli, Nestico, Joplin, Corea

2021

  • Soloist with the Conservatorio Nino Rota orchestra

    Rassegna Solisti con l'Orchestra, Monopoli

    Jacques Ibert, Concertino da camera

  • Borderlines: musica di confine, in trio

    BrindisiClassica 2021, Brindisi

    Russell Peterson, Chick Corea

  • Trio with flute and piano, Festa della Musica

    Associazione Musicale Euterpe, Monopoli

    Russell Peterson

  • Echi da Oscar, a tribute to Ennio Morricone

    Traetta Opera Festival, Chiostro di San Pietro Nuovo, Bitonto

    Morricone, arranged for wind orchestra

2020

  • Trio with flute and piano, 13th Giovani Concertisti series

    Amici della Musica, Monopoli

    Russell Peterson, Chick Corea

2019

  • Saxophone quintet: recital of Italian composers

    JVLMA Ērgeļu zāle, Riga, Latvia

    Sciarrino, Morricone, Piazzolla, Di Marino, Gioia, Salvatore

2016

  • Ensemble Vagaband

    Sibiu, Romania

  • Ensemble Vagaband

    La Fête du Citron, Menton, France

A baritone saxophone on its stand in a pool of yellow stage light