Black-and-white portrait of Giovanni Ottomano in glasses and a dark jacket, leaning on a silver saxophone

Giovanni Ottomano

Saxophonist

©2026

Recent concerts

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

    Teatro Sociale, Trento

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

    Accademia Cusanus, Bressanone

  • L'infinito e i suoi limiti, graduation recital

    ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland

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Giovanni Ottomano with a saxophone

Music is for me like setting off on a journey with an empty suitcase. Every encounter, every sound, every silence fills it with something essential.

At the centre of it all, for me, is sound: it is where all my research begins.

“Music cannot exist without sound. Sound exists by itself without music.”

Giacinto Scelsi

More about me

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Luciano Berio, Sequenza VIIb, soprano saxophone

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Teaching

Lessons for children and adults of every level, in Zurich and online.

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