QUALIFICATIONS

• Institute of Education, University of London/UCL. Master of Music Education, 2015 Philosophy of music, Sociology of music, Psychology of music, Music technology in music education, Choir conducting Leadership
  and Communication, Critical studies.

• Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Jazz Trumpet Bachelor, 2012.

  Trumpet technique (Jan Oosthof), Jazz trumpet improvisation (Ruud Breuls), Lead trumpet playing (Jan Oosthof), Latin Ensembles (Randal Corsen),
  Music Theory and Harmony (Jan Faas), Jazz Ensambles and Big Band (Erik Van Lier), Latin Percussion (Bart Fermie), Ensemble conducting (Sam ten Velden).
  

• Fondazione Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. European Union IFTS Course in Sound Engineering (1200 hrs), 2005

• Conservatorio di Lucca, Classical trumpet diploma, equivalent to Bachelor and Master of Performance, 2004

  Classical trumpet (Lucia Luconi, Emanuele Antoniucci, Donato De Sena), Music ensemble (Mario Barsotti, Fabiano Fiorenzani, Antonio Sicoli),
  Music history, Harmony.

Bio

Musician and music educator Rocco Brunori was born and raised on the Tuscan hills just outside Florence. He started playing trumpet at the age of 7 at the Scuola di Musica 'Giovanni da Cascia'

At the age of 14 Rocco begun his studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, playing in many orchestras such as the Italian Youth Orchestra, Orchestra Galilei, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra dell'Opera di Fiesole and many others, led by conductors of the caliber of Carlo Maria Giulini, Gabriele Ferro, Daniele Gatti and Jeffrey Tate. He obtained his classical trumpet degree at the age of 21 and from the beginning of his classical studies started teaching trumpet and flugelhorn, coaching brass bands and wind sections.

At the age of 19 he joined the band Tamales de Chipil which took him to Italy, Switzerland, France and Mexico with more than 400 concerts. After 2 years of a sound engineering course and freelance teaching and performing in Florence, he traveled through India, Nepal ,China, Laos, Thailand and Australia (pictures).

At the age of 24 he started his jazz bachelor studies at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam, where he had lessons from some of the best players and teachers of North Europe; Jan Oosthof (technique, lead trumpet, big band), Ruud Breuls (jazz trumpet), Jan Faas (harmony, theory, arrangement), Bart Fermie (latin percussions), Sam ten Velden (ensemble conducting), Randal Corsen (Latin Jazz).

At the Conservatorium of Amsterdam he attended workshops and lessons of some of the best jazz players of the world: Terrell Stafford, Marco Tamburini, Gerard Presencer, Chuck Findley, John Clayton and many others. At the end of his studies in Amsterdam Rocco recorded with the Italian band Bardabardò the album 'Scaccianuvole' and played with them in the following tour.

After 2 years traveling through New Zealand and Australia (pictures), collaborating with many big bands, wind bands and other groups, Rocco moved to UK where he attended a Master of Music Education at the UCL.

Rocco is currently working for music services and institutions (Triborough Music Hub, Haringey Music Service, HMDT Music and Ark Academies) as a trumpet tutor, whole classroom instrumental teaching, choir conductor, orchestra conductor, workshop leader for samba ensembles and jazz big band.
He is the Creative Director of the music supervision and production company Sonoram, Associate Conductor of Orchestras for All and Head of Education at UnMuTE.

Pictures of my traveling