Stefano Bagliano is one of the recorder players who are today achieving a growing appreciation at an international level. Got the diploma at the Conservatory Pollini of Padua and specialized with Frans Bruggen, Walter Van Hauwe, Kees Boeke and Pedro Memelsdorff in recorder and ancient music and with Fabrizio Dorsi in orchestral conducting, he won the first prize in several national contests. He started an intense concert activity, with the admiration of the famous international flutists Frans Bruggen and Walter Van Hauwe: he performed as a soloist more than 600 concerts for prestigious festivals and organizations in all Europe, USA, China and Israel, such as Carnegie Hall of New York, Moscow Conservatoire, Gasteig of Munich, Società del Quartetto of Milan, Amici della Musica of Florence, Concerts of Palazzo Venezia in Rome broadcasted by Radio RAI 3, Ljubljana International Festival, Universitat of Musik of Vienna, Conservatoires of Beijing and of Tianjin, Engadiner Konzertwochen, Los Angeles Italian Cultural Institute, International Early Music Festival of Venice "Feste musicali per S. Rocco", Boston Recorder Society, Sounding Jerusalem Festival, Emilia Romagna International Festival etc..., always with a great success. As a conductor with his baroque orchestra Collegium Pro Musica he performed with the famous singers Emma Kirkby, Roberta Invernizzi and Catherine King. As a soloist with orchestra he performed with conductors such as Alan Curtis, Rudolf Barshai, Anton Nanut, Giuseppe Garbarino, Sergio Balestracci, Vladislav Bulakhov as well as with formations such as Academia Montis Regalis, Solisti della Scala of Milan, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Mainzer Kammerorchester, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Macedonian Phialarmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Toscanini of Parma, Accademia I Filarmonici of Verona, L'Arte dell'Arco, Carlo Felice Ensemble. In the field of chamber music with Monica Huggett, Bob Van Asperen, Ottavio Dantone, Vittorio Ghielmi, Hendrik Bouman, Carlo Chiarappa, Federico Guglielmo, Lorenz Duftschmid, Enrico Bronzi, Claudio Astronio, Andrea Coen, Giorgio Tabacco, Christian Brembeck, Gianluca Capuano, Alessio Corti, Erich Oskar Huetter, Johannes Meissl, Aline D'Ambricourt, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, l'Astrèe. Bagliano is the founder and the director of the ensemble Collegium Pro Musica and has made several recordings (among them 16 as a soloist, with works by Telemann, Vivaldi, Sammartini, Fiorenza, Bach, Marcello, Merula, Stradella, Graupner, 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, American Record Guide, Classic Heute, CD Classica, Répertoire, Scherzo, American Recorder, Fono Forum etc.). Some recordings came out as a free CD enclosed to some of the most important italian musical magazines, such as CD CLASSICS, ORFEO and the prestigious AMADEUS. He is the art director of the International Festival of Chamber Music “Le Vie del Barocco” of Genoa, Turin and Savona, and consultant member of other musical seasons. He was a member of the jury at the 2006 Zinetti Chamber Music International Competition of Verona, at the 2007 Early Music International Competition of Genoa and at the XX AMA Calabria Competition. He is the art director of the International Musical Courses in Genova. Active in the didactic field, he taught in several musical courses and masterclasses, for various institutions, among which Gnessin Institute of Moscow, ISA International Sommer Akademie Wien Prague Budapest, BRS Boston Recorder Society, Conservatory of Oporto (Portugal), Societè Valaisanne de la flute Sion, Accademia Europea di Musica Antica of Bolzano, Conservatories of Turin, Genoa, Campobasso and Cosenza. He is professor of recorder at the Conservatory “Steffani” of Castelfranco Veneto and of chamber baroque musique at the Conservatory "Verdi" of Turin. He also graduated in Law. |