Francesco Fratini

He began studying the instrument at the age of 8.
He studied with the teachers Salvatore Catania and Franco Vasselli, Giampaolo Casati, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano Zenni, Marco Tamburini, Claudio Corvini, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi.

In January 2009, still eighteen years old, he was called by Enrico Rava to join his ensemble, alongside Daniele Tittarelli, Gianluca Petrella, Giovanni Guidi, Gianluigi Trovesi, Dan Kinzelman and Stefano Senni. In September 2010 he moved to New York where he attended, thanks to a four-year scholarship, the courses of the New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music. Over the five years in New York he had the opportunity to study under the guidance of teachers of the caliber of Reggie Workman, George Cables, Aaron Goldberg, Steve Cardenas, Jimmy Owens, Andrew Cyrille, Laurie Frink, Ambrose Akimounsire, Avishai Cohen, Kirk Nurock, Doug Weiss, Marcus Printup, Jane Ira Bloom. He also performed in several New York clubs and festivals alongside musicians such as Austin Peralta, Chad Lefickofitz Brown, Alexander Claffy, Matt Chalk, Kyle Poole and Daniel Dor. In December 2014 he graduated from the New School, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemporary Music.

In January 2015 he returned to Rome to resume an intense concert activity throughout Italy alongside musicians of the caliber of Pietro Lussu, Daniele Tittarelli, Rosario Giuliani, Danilo Rea, Fabio Zeppetella, Rosario Bonaccorso, Alessandro Lanzoni, Camilla Battaglia, Simone Graziano, Ares Tavolazzi, Mario Raja, Paolo Damiani, Bruno Biriaco, Mario Corvini, Domenico Sanna, Alessandro Lanzoni, Enrico Zanisi, Daniele Tittarelli, Francesco Diodati, Francesco Ponticelli, Giovanni Guidi, Fabrizio Sferra, Massimo Morganti, Marco Valeri, Enrico Morello, Luca Bulgarelli, Cristiano Arcelli and many others.

In March 2016 he graduated in Jazz Trumpet with a mark of 110 with honors at the Santa Cecilia conservatory in Rome.

In recent years he had the opportunity to perform abroad, in Montreal and New York with the Francois Russeau Big Band, in Bern with Or Bareket Quartet, in Telaviv in Israel with the Michael Rosen Quartet, in Algeria in Constantine with Marta High, in Finland with Kurry Luthala Quartet in Helsinki, in Ryadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and in Tblisi in Georgia with the Paolo Damiani New Band, again in Tblisi with the Nicola di Tommaso Quartet, in Berlin with Ugo Alunni Quartet.

He is a permanent member of the “Umbria Jazz Orchestra” and of the National Jazz Young Talents Orchestra (ONJT) with which he performs in the prestigious contexts of the Teatro Piccolo in Milan, Teatro Romano di Fiesole in Florence, Auditorium Parco della Musica and Casa del Jazz in Rome, Prix Italia in Capri and many others.

He has been carrying on, since 2016, a quartet in his name, composed by Domenico Sanna, Luca Fattorini and Matteo Bultrini, with whom he is close to the publication of his first album “The Best Of All Possible Worlds” for Jando Music.