About the Muggiati-Feldman Brothers
Felipe Muggiati-Feldman
Felipe Muggiati-Feldman, now 19 years old, has been playing musical instruments since he was five. Starting with the drums, followed by the vibraphone, Felipe got into reed instruments in fourth fourth grade. He has since been playing the clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone. Felipe also has videos for teaching the basics of clarinet and saxophone to the very beginners at the woodwind zone channel.
Felipe took sax lessons from Scott Barnhill, Aaron Wolf and Tim Armacost.
Felipe is a winner of the 2023 YoungArts Merit award for Jazz on Tenor Saxophone.
Felipe was a member of the California All-State Music Education Conference (CASMEC) Junior High Jazz Ensemble in 2019 playing alto sax and clarinet, and the All-State High School Jazz Ensemble in 2021 playing tenor sax.
Felipe is a frequent recipient of Downbeat Student Musician Awards (SMA), in the following categories:
2019: Jazz Soloist Junior High School Honors Outstanding Performance on alto sax
2020: Jazz Soloist Junior High School Outstanding Performance on alto sax
2020: Large Jazz Ensemble Junior High School Outstanding Performance with Easterbrook Discovery School on alto sax
2021: Asynchronous Large Jazz Ensemble High School Honors Outstanding Performance with Standford Jazz on both soprano and baritone Saxophones
2022: Large Jazz Ensemble High School Honors Outstanding Performance with Standford Jazz as lead alto Saxophonist
Diogo Muggiati-Feldman
Diogo Muggiati-Feldman, now 17 years old, has been playing musical instruments since he was four. Starting with piano, followed by the cello, Diogo started playing trumpet and flugelhorn in third grade.
Diogo took trumpet lessons from Jeff Lewis (jazz) and James Dooley (classical).
Diogo is a winner of the 2025 YoungArts award for Classical Music on Trumpet
Diogo was a member of the California All-State Music Education Conference (CASMEC) Junior High Jazz Ensemble in 2020 and 2021 playing the trumpet.
Diogo is a frequent recipient of Downbeat Student Musician Awards (SMA), in the following categories:
2020: Jazz Soloist Junior High School Honors Outstanding Performance on trumpet and flugelhorn
2020: Large Jazz Ensemble Junior High School Outstanding Performance with Easterbrook Discovery School on trumpet
2021: Jazz Soloist Junior High School Honors Winner on trumpet
2021: Asynchronous Large Jazz Ensemble Junior High School Winner with Easterbrook Discovery School on trumpet
2021: Asynchronous Large Jazz Ensemble High School Honors Outstanding Performance with Standford Jazz on trumpet
2021: Jazz Arrangement Junior High School Honors Winner with "Misty for Trumpet & Flugelhorn Quintet"
2022: Jazz Soloist Junior High School Winner on trumpet and flugelhorn
The Muggiati-Feldman brothers come from a family of long musical traditions. From their mother Anna Muggiati, niece of Roberto Muggiati, a well known Brazil's jazz critic. From their father Daniel Feldman, brother of David Feldman, "one of the great talents in today's Brazilian instrumental music" on the piano, and son of Myrna Herzog, an internationally known viola da gamba performer, conductor and researcher, and of Eliahu Feldman, one of the first baroque violin players in Brazil; and great-grandson of Nikolaus Schaack, a zither player and “a pioneer of the technique of the zither and of the composition for this instrument (MGG Dictionary)”.
The Muggiati-Feldman household has been the stage for frequent jam sessions since 2010. During the first jam sessions, then 6 and 4, the brothers had to be bathed and put to bed for their parents to continue playing. On the most recent ones, they led the musicians, old and young, into playing everything from Bossa Nova, through Blues, Hard Bop, Bebop, Ballads, and Avant-Garde Jazz. Based in New York, NY, the Feldman brothers can be often found at Smalls' jam sessions. While living in San José, California, over the years it has been possible to listen to the Muggiati-Feldman brothers in some of the South Bay and Peninsula's most popular Jazz joints, including Art Boutiki, Café Stritch, 7 Mile House, Little Lou's BBQ, and Savannah Channel Winery, either in jam sessions or as guest artists. Since moving to NYC in December 2021, they can be heard at jam sessions at Patrick's Place and Smalls or performing with bands at venues such as Birdland and Jazz at Lincoln Center.