
JIB Large Ensemble The JIB Large Ensemble welcomes Emiliano Sampaio as guest composer and conductor through the Erasmus+ program, representing the Gustav Mahler University for one week at the Jazz Institute Berlin. More infos at https://www.jazz-institut-berlin.de/index.php/en/events?scrollto=concerts

On January 10th, 2026, I will have the pleasure of performing at the Jazz Redoute in Graz as co-leader of the amazing Jazz Bigband Graz.

Meretrio performs its brand-new album and celebrates 20 years as a band with its 11th release!

It is a great pleasure to direct the amazing Lungau Big Band in this project, with seven concerts across Austria presenting a new crossover program between Brazilian and Austrian music.

I was very happy to be part of the 2025 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Klagenfurt, representing the Gustav Mahler Private University with Seamus Blake as our artist in residence.

On December 4, 2024, I had the honor of conducting the amazing HRT Jazz Orchestra in Zagreb, Croatia. We performed some of my big band music from my albums released in 2016 and 2021, as well as debuting new compositions that have not yet been released, freshly composed for my upcoming album with my jazz orchestra!

On 5.Dec, the results of the Austrian Jazz Prize will be announced. But regardless of the outcome, I’m thrilled to share that my album We Have a Dream with my Jazz Symphony Orchestra has been nominated for this award and It’s an honor to be in this list alongside incredible artists like Austrian Syndicate & David Helbock, Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade, Manu Delago, Gina Schwarz, Max Plattner,...

I am excited to be part of the new band for Austrian Television's Servus-TV, performing weekly on the program Sport und Talk aus dem Hangar-7, broadcast live from Salzburg. It’s an honor to play alongside the amazing Horst Hofer, Burkhard Frauenlob, Philipp Kopmajer, and Maximilian Ranzinger.

In September (12th, 13th, 14th), I will have the honor of holding a residency at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, presenting a new project each evening. You are warmly invited! On September 12th, I will perform in a duo with deeLinde, on September 13th with my Meretrio, and on September 14th, we will present my new program for Big Band featuring some of the best musicians living in Austria.

Meretrio celebrates 20 Years releasing a new album and performing more than 20 concerts around Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, etc. See you in Europe from August to November!

Our debut album is almost ready, and we will release it and enjoy the summer together, touring around Austria and Switzerland! We hope to see you at some of our concerts.

It is a pleasure to bring my big band music for the first time to Denmark and conduct the great Odense Jazz Orchestra.

In the last 12 years, I have released six albums dedicated to large ensemble music, spanning the spectrum between big band and orchestra. It is now both an honor and a great pleasure to present my big band music for the first time with the amazing Radio Romania Big Band.

I had the pleasure to work with an amazing group of young and motivated musicians at the Jazz Institut Berlin. I hope you enjoy some excerpts of the concert playing some of my music for jazz nonet.

On 6.October at Festspielhaus Salzburg the great Lungau Big Band featured the amazing Chanda Rule on vocals and performed my arrangements celebrating 40 Years of band!

Meretrio will be again in Europe touring from Sep to Nov. We are very happy to play the music from our last album "Choros", which was nominated for the German record critics and got in the Jazzthing list "Best Albums of 2021".

This year I have the pleasure of being the trombone coach at the Grazer Big Band Workshop 2023.

We are very happy to bring our duo for the first time to Germany after concerts in Brazil and Austria. See you there!

I look forward to the Klangwoche 2023, where I have the pleasure to conduct an orchestra formed only by musicians 60 plus!

It is a big honour to be part of the amazing group of trombonists who are sponsored by Thein Brass.

We were very happy to release this new album in Graz with 2 sold-out concerts on 2. and 3.June at the great club Tubes.