Jayme Vignoli began his professional career in 1984. He earned a degree in Composition from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uni Rio), where he also earned his master’s degree in Music Education.

Vignoli was a member of the Orquestra de Cordas Brasileiras and Água de Moringa, both groups awarded in Brasil with the Prêmio Sharp de Música in the instrumental category. Vignoli has performed in all regions of Brasil and internationally in Angola, Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Paraguay, Portugal, Sweden and the USA.

As a teacher, he has worked at many instituitions and music festivals in Brasil and worldwide such as the Escola Brasileira de Música (Rio de Janeiro/RJ – Brasil), Festival de
Música de Londrina, Oficina de Música do Conservatório de Música Popular de Curitiba, Festival Nacional de Choro,  Festival de Inverno da Casa do Choro, Curso Internacional de Verão de Brasília, Encontro de Choro da Unicamp, New York University, Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Fridhems Folkhögskola, and the Casa de Choro de Toulouse.

Since 2003, Vignoli has taught at Escola Portátil de Música. Nowadays, besides teaching, he is one of the coordinators/directors of EPM and Instituto Casa do Choro in Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil.

Jayme Vignoli worked as musician and musical director of the “sambopera” ATraviata (2001), directed by Augusto Boal, for which he re-wrote Verdi’s score, adapting it to Brazilian rhythms.

His music has been recorded by some of Brasil’s greatest artists including Água de Moringa, Aldir Blanc, Camerata Brasilis, Choro da Glória, Fina Estampa, Furiosa Portátil, Mariana Baltar, Nadinho da Ilha, Rancho Carnavalesco Flor do Sereno’s Orchestra, Tungo, Valéria Lobão, Walter Alfaiate, Zé Paulo Becker and Quarteto Radamés Gnattali, Zeca Pagodinho, and many others.

As arranger, Vignoli has a long list of collaborations in recordings and concerts with Brazilian and international artists like: Água de Moringa, Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, Brazilian singers Marcos Sacramento, Mariana Baltar and ValériaLobão, the Metropole Orkest, swedish singer Miriam Aïda, North American clarinetist and singer Kristen Mather de Andrade among many others.

In 2006,  he was a finalist in the Prêmio SesiMinas de Cultura composition competition for Chamber Orchestra (Minas Gerais State – Brasil) with the piece Incelença e coco de embolada, for strings,receiving.

In 2011 his piece Estação Madureira, for guitar and string quartet was recorded by Zé Paulo Becker e Quarteto Radamés Gnattali. In the same year his piece, Litorânea (a five movement suite), was included in the repertoire of the first CD of the Brazilian group Camerata Brasilis.

In 2013 Vignoli created Orquestra Fuleira, a 15 musician group, to play his own compositions as well as pieces written by great Brazilian composers such as Radamés Gnattali and César Guerra Peixe. Orquestra Fuleira presented its first concert in 2016 with great success at Casa do Choro in Rio de Janeiro.

In April of 2019 his piece, Das águas for orchestra, had its world premiere by Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in a gala concert at Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.

In 2021 his piece, Brancaleone, was awarded with the second prize at The Valley Winds International Composition Competition.