Stefano Pastor
Stefano Pastor
Genres: violin, jazz
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About Stefano Pastor
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, Piero Leveratto. He recorded several CDs as a leader as well as a sideman, working with labels like Silta (IT), Splasc(h) (IT), Slam and Leo Records (UK) and Mutable Music (USA), and has taken part to many recordings. His works was reviewed enthusiastically in Europe, America and Canada and he got a lot of dedicated interviews, articles, and broadcast by magazines and radios like Musica Jazz (IT), Quaderni d’Altri Tempi (IT), Jazz Colours (IT), Jazzosphere (FR), AAJ (IT), Jazzit (IT), Prove Aperte (IT), Jazzitalia (IT), RAI (IT), BBC (UK), Morning Star (UK), Radio Palermo (AR). An interview with Erika Dagnino is published in her book “Nel gesto, nel suono – La percezione-decifrazione dell’evento musicale” (Casa Musicale Eco, 2010), which collects interviews with some of the greatest improviser in the world. Besides winning the Top Jazz award on 2010 and 2011 as said - after the excellent placements of the previous three years, the prestigious American review All About Jazz - NY voted his CD with Borah Bergman “Live at Tortona” as “Best New Release 2009 – Honorable Mention". He toured in Italy, Germany, UK, Belgium, France, Czek Republic, Russia, Switzerland, USA as a soloist with various groups, performing at several important festivals, clubs and theatres. He collaborates with the visual artist Roberto Masotti, with the poets Steve Dalachinsky, Anthony Barnett, Mark Weber, Erika Dagnino. He published the violin improvisation treatise with attached CD “ViolinJazz” (Casa Musicale Eco – 2008). As a poet and articles author he collaborated with reviews such as SuonoSonda, Quaderni d’Altri Tempi, Musica Jazz, Magazzino Jazz, Levure Littéraire (FR), Snow (UK), First Literary Review-East (USA), In Poche Righe, Slow Wine, La Tecnica della Scuola, Orizzonte Scuola. He also devotes himself to teaching from many years and collaborated with the Conservatorio "Verdi" in Milano as teacher and with the Seminari di Siena Jazz as assistent. He's become a certified violin teacher in the secondary school on 2014, he's won the open competitive exam for teaching in the secondary school both first and second degree on 2016; he has got an open-ended contract in secondary school on 2017.
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