Lina Allemano

LINA ALLEMANO is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, and prolific composer with an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in experimental, conceptual, improvised and jazz settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, Allemano moved to Toronto in 1993. She is educated in both classical and jazz trumpet and specializes in extended technique on her instrument. Allemano now splits her time between the music scenes in TORONTO and BERLIN, and she runs her own internationally-acclaimed record label LUMO RECORDS.

Allemano composes music primarily for her forward-thinking acoustic quartet LINA ALLEMANO FOUR, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2015, as well as her Berlin- based power-trio OHRENSCHMAUS. She also leads the electric improvising quartet TITANIUM RIOT and the trumpet / live-processing duo BLOOP, and is a longtime member of Rob Clutton’s CLUTTERTONES. As well as being a side-musician in many other groups in both Toronto and Berlin, Allemano is also busy collaborating with many of today’s top groundbreaking musicians in countless other international projects. She has been releasing albums and touring extensively with her bands and many others all across Canada, USA and Europe for years. As a session musician, Allemano's trumpet playing can also be heard on countless albums, film and television soundtracks.

Lina Allemano was featured as one of the top innovative trumpeters for the future in DownBeat Magazine and called one of the most exciting new voices of the last few years by Brian Morton, Point of Departure. Her trumpet playing, compositions and artistic vision have gained her international recognition as being adventurous, expressive, compelling, inventive and sophisticated.

DISCOGRAPHY AS BANDLEADER, LUMO RECORDS: Lina Allemano Four, Vegetables (Lumo Records 2021); BLOOP, Proof (Lumo Records 2021); Ohrenschmaus, Rats and Mice (Lumo Records 2020); Lina Allemano solo trumpet, Glimmer Glammer (Lumo Records 2020); Lina Allemano Four, Sometimes Y (Lumo Records 2017); Titanium Riot, Squish It! (Lumo Records 2017); Titanium Riot, Kiss The Brain (Lumo Records 2014); Lina Allemano Four, Live at the Tranzac (Lumo Records 2012); Lina Allemano Four, Jargon (Lumo Records 2010); Lina Allemano Four, Gridjam (Lumo Records 2008); Lina Allemano Four, Pinkeye (Lumo Records 2006); Lina Allemano Four (feat. David Occhipinti), Concentric (Lumo Records 2003).

* Full discography as side-musician / collaborator available upon request.

“Trumpeter Lina Allemano is especially good at the melodification of thought and sound. Her finely textured improvisations are always intent but casual, as if she were merely picking out notes and phrases that have always been there, waiting to be made audible” - Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail

Lina has received support from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council. Lina is a Yamaha Artist. Show less