Valentina Fin - Vocals
Marco Centasso - Bass
Ramuel Tafenau - Drums
Nikita Korzoun - Alto Saxophone
Artis Boriss - Piano

Valentina Fin started to study music at the age of 13, attending her first vocal technique lessons at the Accademia del Canto in Arzignano (VI), under the guidance of Maestro Roberto Clerici. Then, she studied jazz at the Thelonious School of Music in Vicenza, where she currently teaches jazz singing. She subsequently attended the bachelor degree in Jazz Singing at the Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo in Vicenza, where she graduated on 22 February 2017 with top grades, presenting a finaal concert on the english soprano Norma Winstone. Here she also explores choral singing and piano practice. At the conservatory she studied with Paolo Birro, Salvatore Maiore, Mauro Beggio, Michele Calgaro, Pietro Tonolo and Francesca Bertazzo Hart. At the same time she obtained a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage at the University of Trento and a Master's degree in Arts Management at the Sole24Ore Business School in Milan. She has attended master classes and courses with Norma Winstone, Sheila Jordan, Diana Torto, Amy London, Roberto Dani, Elisabetta Antonini, Barry Harris. She took opera singing lessons with Alberto Spadarotto and saxophone lessons with Ettore Martin. She is currently studying the contemporary repertoire with Cristina Zavalloni. With pianist Stefano Battaglia at the Siena Jazz Academy, in 2021 she took part in the "Laboratori Permamenti di improvvisazione libera" to set the Serbian performer Marina Abramovich's artist manifesto to music in a sextet. The group recorded a cd dedicated to the concept in October 2021. In December 2020, with Augusto Dalle Aste, she founded Bacąn, a cultural association that deals with production in the field of contemporary music with a view to sustainability and cultural innovation (www.musicabacan.net) She is currently attending the first year of the master degree in Jazz Singing at the Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza, where she is also following a parallel course in baroque singing.

DISCOGRAPHY
2018, May: RAME - Rame Ensemble - Emme Record Label
2019, May - TUMIZA - Valentina Fin Trio - Emme Record Label
2021 June, OSCURA ERA - Rame Ensemble - Wow Records
2021 October - KURT! - Valentina Fin Ensemble - Velut Luna

AWARDS AND MUSIC COMPETITIONS
2nd Place Riga Jazz Contest 2022
1st prize Tomorrow's Jazz Award 2021 by Veneto Jazz, Teatro La Fenice (Venice)
Finalist Marco Tamburini Award 2021, Teatro Sociale of Rovigo
1st Prize Barga Jazz Contest 2020, Barga Jazz Festival 2020
Finalist Sibiu Jazz Competition 2019 (Romania)
Finalist Bucharest Jazz Competition 2019 (Romania)
3rd prize Jazz Junior Contest 2018 (Poland)
Finalist Fara Jazz Prize 2017 (Fara in Sabina)
Finalist 3rd Festival dei Conservatori (Frosinone)
Finalist Chicco Bettinardi National Competition (Piacenza Jazz, 2015)