Stefano Battaglia

Stefano Battaglia ( born August 31, 1965 in Milan ) is an Italian pianist and composer of modern jazz.

Life and work

Stefano Battaglia studied classical piano at the Milan Conservatory first game before he turned to jazz. He has appeared as soloist with the European Youth Orchestra in 1981 in Barcelona and won the 1986 J.- S. -Bach Festival Award in Dusseldorf as the best young pianist of the year 1987 the Brussels Radio Award as the best young European pianist. Battaglia then founded various jazz ensembles, such as Triplicity and Theatrum in Siena. Under his own name he adopted since the late 1980s, a number of albums especially for the Italian jazz label Splas ( c ) h. His debut album was Things Is not What They Used to Be.

Caused a stir in the 2000s, its recorded for the Munich-based ECM concept albums; in his first ECM double album Raccolto ( 2006), he devoted himself to musical heroes such as Bill Evans and Paul Bley. His second ECM album from 2007 has devoted his compatriot Pier Paolo Pasolini ( 1922-1975 ), the pianist. The bandwidth of Pasolini's work and his stormy life inspired him to his double album Re: Pasolini. " What the challenge Pasolini musically interpret ', made ​​her so irresistible to me, his sense of Unitas Multiplex was (about: unity in diversity ), his extraordinary ability to be opposites coexist. Not only academic culture and pop culture or the sacred and the profane, but also political, ethical and religious issues, " Battaglia said to the double album.

The first CD of Re: Pasolini has recorded with the musicians of Pietra Lata Sestetto the pianist. The second CD was recorded with musicians who have worked with Louis Sclavis as Dominique Pifarély, Bruno Chevillon and Vincent Courtois. Due to the rather gloomy and heavy pieces the eight variations of the composition " Lyra " pull through as a film music theme. Battaglia turns on the second CD Pasolini's conflictual relationship with the Church and his radical political views to, as well as his assassination in 1975 in Ostia.

Battaglia also taught at several Italian jazz seminars such as the Siena Jazz summer program.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Explore ( Splas ( c ) h, 1990) with Tony Oxley
  • Confession ( Splas ( c ) h, 1991) with Paolino Dalla Porta, Roberto Gatto
  • Baptism ( Splas ( c ) h, 1993) solo
  • Sulphur ( Splas ( c ) h, 1993) with Dalla Porta, Oxley
  • Unknown Flames ( Splas ( c ) h, 1995) with Roberto Gatto
  • When We Were ( Splas ( c ) h, 1997) with Michael Gassmann, Pierre Favre
  • Omen ( Splas ( c ) h, 1997) with Pierre Favre
  • Re: Pasolini (ECM, 2007)
  • Pastorale (ECM, 2010) with Michele Rabbia
  • Songways (ECM, 2011), with Salvatore Maiore (double bass) and Roberto Dani (drums)
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