Stefano Battaglia

STEFANO BATTAGLIA
Born in Milan, he began to study piano when he was seven years old. His classical career includes several Italian and European festivals, hundreds of concerts as a soloist.

In 1986 he was invited to the J.S. Bach Festivals; in 1991 he performed as soloist of the Orchestra Giovanile Europea. In the jazz scene he was awarded as best new talent of 1988 and 1999 best Italian musician from the magazine Musica Jazz. His several collaborations include all the best Italian musicians and several international artists as Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Dewey Redman, Tony Oxley, Barre Phillips, Steve Swallow, Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano, Bill Elgart, Dominique Pifarely, Jay Clayton, Pierre Favre and many others.
He played more than 3000 concerts as an improviser in all the most important festivals and in many international appointments all over the world. He recorded more than 100 cd (mostly as a leader and for solo piano), received many awards for his solo piano and trio recordings. Besides the solo performance, he focused his research on the trio format (piano bass and drums) and on the duo piano-percussion format (with Tony Oxley, Pierre Favre, Bill Elgart and Michele Rabbia).
Actually, he teaches in Siena Jazz jazz masterclasses from 1988, and from 1996 he has been conducting the Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Musicale which is a workshop on musical research, improvisation, composition and creation in music. Since 2004 he is recording as a leader for ECM Records (Several important work on cd among which: Raccolto, Re: Pasolini, Pastorale, The river of Anyder, Songways, Pelagos).