The MHCC Music Program is excited to host the Redshift Trio for clinics and a performance, that is open to the public! The trio consists of Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Josh Deutsch, Italian guitarist, composer and educator Nico Soffiato, and UO Jazz Drum Set Faculty Ken Mastrogiovanni!
Schedule:
2:10-3pm: Masterclass in AC2102
3:10-4:30pm: Clinic with the MHCC Jazz Ensemble
7:00pm: Performance in the Visual Arts Theatre with an MHCC student jazz combo opening!
The Visual Arts Theatre at Mt. Hood Community College is accessible through the Stark Street entrance. A suggested donation of $10 at the door is appreciated. Students attend for free!
Email any questions to MHCC's Director of Jazz Studies at
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Trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato have been playing together as a duo since 2006, when they met in Boston. Over the years, the musical relationship born through this collaboration has resulted in a set of music composed specifically for this ensemble, including many co-written originals and reinvented arrangements of music from jazz, classical and popular worlds. The music ranges from electronic loops to entirely acoustic pieces, balancing carefully crafted compositions with space for exciting improvisations and interaction.
Their third album Redshift was released in 2020 on the label nusica.org and features two great drummers of the New York scene: Allison Miller and Dan Weiss. The new album Cloud Forest out in April 2025 features drummers Dave King, Rudy Royston and Bram Kincheloe. Deutsch and Soffiato perform regularly in the New York City area and have toured extensively in the US and Italy. They have also given master classes and workshops in music schools and universities in the US and Italy.
"...There's a comfort level in their exchanges that makes this music a pleasure to behold, regardless of complexity or intensity." – D. Bilawsky, All About Jazz
Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Josh Deutsch is a unique voice on New York City’s contemporary music scene, where he performs regularly as a leader and sideman. He is also known nationally and internationally through performances around the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Asia.
Deutsch plays regularly and has recorded with Argentinian singer/composer Sofia Rei, Grammy-winning Mexican singer Lila Downs, the Grammy-winning Dafnis Prieto Big Band, Pedro Giraudo’s Expansions Big Band, Miho Hazama’s M-Unit, Venezuelan guitarist/singer Juancho Herrera, Hungarian singer Nikolett Pankovits, Israeli singer/pianist Noa Fort, Australian soul/funk band The Hipstones, and Colombian folkloric band Grupo Rebolu. He has performed with Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Duke Ellington Big Band directed by Victor Goines.
He has presented his own projects at Dave Douglas’s Festival of New Trumpet Music, as well as at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle and the Outpost Summer Music Festival in Albuquerque and appeared at such leading venues in the U.S. as Carnegie Hall, The Jazz Standard, Birdland, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, The Blue Note, The Jazz Gallery and The Stone in New York City and SF Jazz and Yoshi’s in California.
Nico Soffiato is an Italian guitarist, composer and educator. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2007, he made his home in Brooklyn. A versatile player, Nico finds himself playing in various jazz and experimental groups such as his duo with Grammy-winning trumpet player Josh Deutsch, Paradigm Refrain with Anti Label recording artist Marco Buccelli, and Dogwood. As a member of the New York music scene for over a decade, Nico has been part of the collective Out Of your Head Brooklyn, whose members included Gerald Cleaver, Michael Attias, Tony Malaby, Kirk Knuffke, and many others. He also plays in Innocent When You Dream, Aaron Schragge’s ensemble that reimagines the music of Tom Waits. He had played nationally and internationally, presenting his music at renowned festivals like Dave Douglas’s FONT Festival, Sile Jazz Festival, Padova Jazz Festival and more.
Nico is also music for media composer and producer. He’s a staff composer for the international music house Overcoast and has worked on movies and commercials.
Oregon-based drummer, Ken Mastrogiovanni, brings a unique sensibility and modern voice to the drums and music, making him a rising musician of his generation in his scene. The very early years of his music environment was shaped by his older brother’s j-pop, ska, and electronic bands, as well as listening to the latest jazz and avant-garde music his father played at home. This would subconsciously influence his musical interests and vocabulary going forward. Starting drum set at the age of eleven, his musical adventure was fueled by many important mentors, eventually leading him to recent performance opportunities as a sideman with such artists as Jaleel Shaw, George Colligan, Dick Oatts, Jim Rotondi, Roxy Coss, Clay Jenkins, Bruce Williams, Geoffrey Keezer, John Raymond, Remy Le Boeuf, Yoav Eshed, and the Redshift Trio. He completed his M.M. in Jazz Studies at the University of Oregon, and is now the drum set instructor at his alma mater in addition to maintaining his own private lesson studio. Producing under the title, “kenthemaestro”, he creates beats that transcend genre, often collaborating with MCs and other creative musicians.
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