Raised in Florence (Italy), today Simone Stella is considered one of the most respected performers of ancient music on the harpsichord and organ thanks to his impressive discography. After studying piano with Marco Vavolo and Rosanita Racugno, organ with Mariella Mochi and Alessandro Albenga in Florence and harpsichord with Francesco Cera in Rome, and attending masterclasses held by Ton Koopman, Matteo Imbruno and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, in 2008 Gustav
Leonhardt awarded him the First Prize in the 1 st International Organ Competition “Agati-Tronci” in Pistoia. Stella started a brilliant soloist career that brought him performing in many important festivals throughout Europe, USA and Brazil, where he has also helded seminars and masterclasses on the baroque repertoire for organ and harpsichord.
His monumental soloist discographic production, rewarded by the international review (Musica, Diapason, Fanfare, Klassik, BBC Music Magazine among others), includes the complete organ and harpsichord works of Dieterich Buxtehude, Georg Böhm, Johann Adam Reincken, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann Pachelbel, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Giovanni Picchi and Federico Maria Sardelli recorded for Brilliant Classics, and works of Bach, Handel, Rameau and Cherubini for the labels OnClassical and Amadeus Rainbow. He collaborates with the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo and the symphonic orchestra La Filharmonie.
Active as a composer, Simone Stella has published works for the italian publisher Armelin of Padua.
Since 2011 Simone Stella is the titular organist of the historical organs in the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence. (Retracter)...(lire la suite)
