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 about 600 concerts for prestigious festivals and organizations in all Europe, USA, Asia 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, Engadiner Konzertwochen, Maggio della Musica of Naples, Los Angeles Italian Cultural Institute, International Ancient 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 and Roberta Invernizzi. As a soloist with orchestra he performed with conductors such as Alan Curtis, Rudolf Barshai, Anton Nanut, Giuseppe Garbarino, S. Balestracci, Vladislav Bulakhov as well as with formations such as Mainzer Kammerorchester, Solisti della Scala of Milan, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Macedonian Phialarmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Baroque de Nice, 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, 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 15 as a soloist, with works by Telemann, Vivaldi, 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 “Musica di Corte” of Campobasso.
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, BRS Boston Recorder Society, Conservatory of Oporto (Portugal), Societè Valaisanne de la flute Sion, Accademia Europea di Musica Antica of Bolzano, Conservatories of Campobasso and of Cosenza.
He is professor of recorder at the Conservatory “Piccinni” of Bari. He also graduated in Law.

The Collegium Pro Musica is an ensemble specialized in XVII and XVIII century music repertoire (especially italian), performed in accordance with the style of that age and using true copies of original instruments. The Collegium is composed of many of the best italian performers, all carrying out an intense concert activity as soloists with some of the most important European concert institutions, and often called for collaborating with famous baroque groups and conductors. The Collegium has performed with famous singers such as Emma Kirkby, Roberta Invernizzi and Catherine King and with performers such as the violinist Monica Huggett and the harpsicordist Bob Van Asperen.
Flexible in its formation, which varies from the Trio to the Baroque Orchestra in order to perform the best of XVII - XVIII century repertoire, the group has been founded in 1989 by the flautist Stefano Bagliano, who is also the artistic director. Bagliano and the Collegium Pro Musica have performed very succesfully in important festivals and concert institutions in USA, Europe and Asia, among which Carnegie Hall of New York, Gasteig of Munich, Moscow Conservatoire, Amici della Musica of Florence, Società del Quartetto di Milano/Musica e Poesia a S. Maurizio, Lubljana International Festival, Concerts of Palazzo Venezia in Rome broadcasted by Radio RAI 3, Il Gonfalone of Rome, Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, Boston Recorder Society, Feste Musicali per S. Rocco of Venice, Maggio della Musica of Naples, Engadiner Konzertwochen, Theatre of Ekaterinburg, Teatro Bibiena of Mantova, Festival Internacional de Mùsica Antigua de Valencia, Styrian Chamber Music Festival of Graz, Emilia Romagna Festival, Festivals of Bolzano, Nice, Nancy, Avignon, Turin, Genoa, Cagliari, La Rioja, Baastad, Briancon, Aalborg, Lago d’Orta, FAI Italian Environment Fund etc..
The Collegium has undertook a recording activity, gaining important recognition from the international critics. It has recorded compact - discs for the Brilliant, Stradivarius, Dynamic, Tactus, Velut Luna and Nuova Era record companies, with Concerts and Sonatas by A. Vivaldi, Suites, Concerts, Sonatas and Triosonatas by G.P. Telemann, Concertos by Fiorenza, Sonatas by B. Marcello, Cantatas by A. Scarlatti, Sonatas by J. S. Bach, Concerts, Sonatas and Arias by C.Graupner, J.F.Fasch and J.G.Graun, Canzonas and Sonatas by Merula, Instrumental music in Genoa in the 17th century with music by A. Stradella, M. Bitti and A. Guerrieri. Some recordings have come out as a free CD enclosed to some of the most important italian musical magazines, such as CD CLASSICS and the prestigious AMADEUS. The last two recordings now available are the complete Vivaldi Flute Concertos op.10 for Stradivarius label and the neapolitan Recorder Concertos by Nicola Fiorenza for Brilliant, dutch label with a wide distribution.