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Artist
Stefano Pastor
11+ albums
jazzviolin
about
Placed first as “Best Instrumentalist of the Year” (Miscellanea Category) at Top Jazz 2010 and 2011, the prestigious Italian critics’ poll by Musica Jazz Magazine, Stefano Pastor has a really unique sound on violin and his music is oriented to the research and improvisation, far from any cliché. He has graduated in violin and, with full marks, in Jazz; he studied with Claudio Marzorati, Carlo Pozzi, Lorenzo Lugli, Enzo Marani, Piero Leveratto; he has attended masters with Piero Farulli (string quartet), Enrico Rava, Dave Liebman He played classical music at the beginning of his career as first violin of the string quartet "Leon Battista Alberti" along six years, and working, also as a first violin, with lots of symphonic and chamber orchestras, in many important theatres, sharing the stage with artists like Josè Carreras, Cecilia Gasdia, Daniele Gatti, Massimo De Bernart and making several discs and recordings for the Italian National Radio (RAI). He also made discs with the art-rock group Picchio dal Pozzo and with the popoular singer-song-writer Paolo Conte. At the present he devotes himself entirely to jazz music performing with a lot of important jazz musicians like Borah Bergman, Harry Beckett, Franco Cerri, Dominic Duval, Ken Filiano, George Haslam, Ratzo Harris, Tristan Honsinger, Satoshi Takeishi, Kash Killion, Steve Waterman, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Furio Di Castri, Fulvio Maras, Steve Kershaw, Paul Hession, Harris Heisenstadt, Oleg Yudanov, Nikolay Klishin, Pier
