Anna Bignami Music 

Anna Bignami is an Italian composer, big band leader and conductor based in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Born in Brescia, she moved to Dublin at the age of 18 to study in the BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at Dublin City University. 
After the conclusion of her studies in jazz guitar, she moved to Denmark to attend the master’s in Rhythmic Composition at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, which she completed with the highest grade. 
Her projects “Epitaphs from the Hill” and “Childhood Memories” saw the beginning of  the jazz nonet Bignami Veltri jazz ensemble and her lates debut “Nocturnes” saw her writing also for a smaller constellation like the jazz sextet. 
Recently she has  also been awarded first prize in the open category of the Sophie Desmarais International Composition Competition for Large Jazz Ensemble for her piece “The Blue Fairy”, which was performed in November 2023 in Montreal. Moreover she was awarded the Aarhus Jazz Festival talent prize 2023.