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The Italian recorder player and conductor, Stefano Bagliano, got the diploma at the Conservatory Pollini of Padua and specialized with Frans Brüggen, Walter Van Hauwe, Kees Boeke and Pedro Memelsdorff in recorder and early music and with Fabrizio Dorsi in orchestral conducting, he won the first prize in several national contests.
Stefano Bagliano is one of the recorder players who are today achieving a growing appreciation at an international level. He started an intense concert activity, with the admiration of the famous international flautists Frans Brüggen and Walter Van Hauwe, performing as a soloist for various prestigious festivals and organizations in USA, Canada, Japan, China, Israel, Turkey and all Europe, such as Carnegie Hall of New York, Gasteig of Munich, Moscow Conservatoire, Ishibashi Memorial Hall of Tokio, Beijing and Tianjin Conservatories, Società del Quartetto of Milan/Season in S. Maurizio, Amici della Musica of Florence, Concerts of Palazzo Venezia in Rome broadcasted by Radio RAI 3, Ljubljana International Festival, Engadiner Konzertwochen, Sounding Jerusalem Festival, Sonoro Festival of Bucarest, Auditorium Milli Resaurans of Istanbul, Los Angeles Italian Cultural Institute, Feste musicali per S. Rocco of Venice , Boston Recorder Society, Emilia Romagna International Festival, Season of the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, Bach Festival of Riga etc., always with a great success. He is President and Art Director of Festival Internazionale "Le Vie del Barocco" di Genova (since 1994).
As a conductor with Baroque orchestra Collegium Pro Musica (since June 1990), Stefano Bagliano performed with the famous singers Emma Kirkby, Roberta Invernizzi and Catherine King. As a soloist with orchestra, he performed with formations such as Les Boreades of Montreal, Academia Montis Regalis, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Mainzer Kammerorchester, Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, Solisti della Scala of Milan, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Orchestra Toscanini of Parma, Accademia I Filarmonici of Verona, L'Arte dell'Arco, as well as with conductors such as Alan Curtis, Rudolf Barshai, A. Nanut, G. Garbarino, F. Colusso, H. Sensoy, S. Balestracci, V. Bulakhov. In the field of chamber music with Alaria Ensemble of New York, Monica Huggett, Bob van Asperen, Ottavio Dantone, Vittorio Ghielmi, Gemma Bertagnolli, H. Schellenberger, H. Bouman, C. Chiarappa, F. Guglielmo, L. Duftschmid, E. Bronzi, C. Astronio, A. Coen, R. Jaffè, Casal String Quartet, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, l'Astrèe.
Stefano Bagliano is the founder and the director of the ensemble Collegium Pro Musica and has made several recordings (among them 28 as a soloist, with works by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, G. Sammartini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Fiorenza, Marcello, Merula, Stradella, Barbella, Christoph Graupner, Johann Friedrich Fasch, etc.) for the labels Brilliant, Stradivarius, Dynamic, Stradivarius, Nuova Era, Tactus, ASV Gaudeamus and Velut Luna, achieving thus enthusiastic appreciations from the European and the American critics (Early Music, Fanfare, Diapason, Amadeus, Musica, American Record Guide, Classic Heute, CD Classica, Répertoire, Scherzo, American Recorder, Fono Forum, etc.). Some recordings also came out as a free CD enclosed to some of the most important italian musical magazines, such as CD Classics, Orfeo and two times to the prestigious Amadeus. The CD with the Concerti per flauto op.10 by A. Vivaldi (2010, Stradivarius) and the one with the complete A. Vivaldi's Concerti da Camera (Brilliant, 3 CD's, 2012) received several reviews with 5 stars, among them on the magazines Amadeus and Musica. James Altena wrote on the American magazine Fanfare (March 2013) about the CD with A. Vivaldi's Chamber Concertos: “special mention should be made of recorder player Stefano Bagliano……he is as fine a virtuoso on his instrument as I’ve ever heard”.
Stefano Bagliano is the art director of the International Festival of Chamber Music “Le Vie del Barocco” of Genoa and Savona, and consultant member of other concerts series. He was a member of the jury at the Zinetti Chamber Music International Competition of Verona, at the ERTA Italia Recorder Competition of Padova, at the XX AMA Calabria Competition and at the Early Music International Competition of Nervi, Genoa.
Active in the didactic field, Stefano Bagliano taught in several musical courses and master-classes, for various institutions, among which Summer Academy of the University of Vienna, Royal Colleg of London, Akademie fur Alte Musik of Bremen, F.I.M.A. Early Music Courses of Urbino, Gnessin Institute of Moscow, Hochschule of Stuttgart, BRS Boston Recorder Society, Societè Valaisanne de la flute Sion, Conservatory of Oporto (Portugal), Accademia Europea di Musica Antica of Bolzano, Conservatories of Turin, Genoa, Pescara and Campobasso. Former director of the Early Music Department at the Conservatory “Pedrollo” of Vicenza (since October 2005), he is currently Professor of recorder and Baroque chamber music at the Conservatory "Verdi" of Milan (since November 2020). He also graduated in Law. |
