Simona Premazzi

Simona Premazzi is an Italian-born pianist and composer who has been a vital presence on the New York jazz scene since moving to the city in 2004. Raised in a small town outside Milan, she began playing piano as a child and earned master's degrees in both classical and jazz music before relocating to the United States. Her work has included long collaborations with the Greg Osby 4 and the Jeremy Pelt Quintet, and she has performed at major New York rooms including the Village Vanguard. As a leader she has recorded several albums, among them The Lucid Dreamer (2013), Outspoken (2017), and Wave in Gravity (2023), and in 2025 she co-led From What I Recall on Origin Records with saxophonist Kyle Nasser.