SANDRO DI STEFANO, obtuvo el diploma con gran éxito en el Conservatorio Superior de Música “A. Casella de L´Aquila”, Italia. Ganador de la prestigiosa beca de estudios Cet di Mogol y el Premio Internacional de Composición de L. Refice.

Frecuentemente invitado para actuar en prestigiosas salas de concierto internacionales. Su música ha sido registrada bajo algunos de los mejores sellos discográficos, como Mixer, Sicis, OmniArt, Net Art Company, Bèrben and IGS. Sus composiciones son difundidas a menudo en varios programas de la cadena RAI de Televisión y la Radio Nacional.

Sandro ha trabajado para muchas casas productoras musicales y de cine, y para la RaiTrade y ha compuesto y dirigido muchas bandas sonoras originales para películas, deporte, documentarios y programas de radio y TV, con directores como Marcello Mazzilli, Federico Greco, Igor Maltagliati, Mauro Di Flaviano, Pino Leoni, entre otros; anuncios para Hydrocarbons National Company, Rai/Mediaset “Spot: Ambiente y Desarrollo”, trabajos para Cd-Rom, DVD y documentarios y eventos especiales para instituciones gubernamentales.

Es también arreglista y guitarrista de clásico y jazz y ha actuado en el Aula Nervi del Vaticano para el Papa Juan Pablo II y muchos prestigiosos teatros como el Barberini en Roma, I.I.L.A., en el Festival Internacional Mauro Giuliani, Bisceglie, Italia; y en países como España, Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumanía, Bélgica, Holanda Alemania, Sudamérica, etc.

Ha trabajado para la Bèrben como revisor y transcriptor sobre la obra para laúd de J.S. Bach, Op. 1 y 30 de M. Giuliani, 20 Estudios de F. Sor y las Primeras Lecciones de Guitarra de J.S. Sagreras. Para la casa Warner Bros ha arreglado y publicado muchas colecciones.

Para Net Art ha revisado muchas obras de Molino, Carcassi, Sor, Giuliani, Carulli, Garcia Fortea y publicado muchas composiciones originales.

Es coautor de Música para la Imaginación, libro oficial de la Facultad de Música y Cinematografía, Universidad de Lecce, trabajando en este libro con Ennio Morricone y Nicola Piovani (Premios Oscar)

Dirije el espacio Classical & Style de la revista Guitar Club, dedicado al análisis de la literatura guitarrística clásica y moderna.

Es el director artístico del “Oreste Sindici International Award of Composition” y del  IGS -“Italia Guitar Symposium”.

Actualmente es el director artístico de la Editorial Bèrben - www.berben.it - IGS series y NewTone series, habiendo publicado Tactus and Wave Dance and Portrait, Berta’s Portrait, Dedication Nº 2, Cavatina.

Reputados compositores como Antonio Di Pofi, Rodolfo Ledesma, Uros Dojcinovic, le han dedicado sus obras.Como guitarrista está patrocinado por firmas como Godin, Grisby Music Company y cuerdas D’Addario - www.daddario.com.

Como investigador estudia la aplicación de nuevas consonancias sobre la dodecafonía y su uso en el ordenador. http://www.sandrodistefano.it

BIOGRAPHY

SANDRO DI STEFANO graduated successfully at the conservatoire “A. Casella of L’Aquila”, Italy. Winner of prestigious education grants (“Mogol’s Cet”) and international awards of composition (“L. Refice”)

He has a lot of requests about his performances from many famous international music halls. His music has been recorded by some of the best labels of the world, like Mixer, Sicis, OmniArt, Net Art Company, Bèrben and IGS. His compositions are usually broadcasted by several programs of RAI TV, the National TV and Radio Company in Italy.

Sandro has worked for many production houses, filmmakers and for RaiTrade and he has composed and directed many original soundtracks for movies, spots, documentaries, TV and Radio programs (with the directors Marcello Mazzilli, Federico Greco, Igor Maltagliati, Mauro Di Flaviano, Pino Leoni, among others), commercials (ENI, Hydrocarbons National Company - “Environment & Development”, Rai/Mediaset), Cd-Rom, DVD, documentaries and special events, even for government institutions.

He is also arranger and guitarist (classical & jazz) and he has played in several live shows in Italy (Vatican’s Aula Nervi with the Pope John Paul II and many prestigious theatres like the Barberini in Rome, the I.I.L.A., the Mauro Giuliani Festival in Bisceglie) and other contries like Spain, Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Belgium, Holland, Germany, South America, etc.

He has worked for Bèrben like reviser and transcriber also: J.S. Bach’s Opera Omnia for guitar; Mauro Giuliani’s Op. 30 for guitar and strings; Fernando Sor’s “20 Studies”; Mauro Giuliani’s Op.1 and the new edition of J.S. Sagreras’ “first lessons of guitar”.

For Warner Bros publishing house he has arranged and published many collections.

For Net Art Company he has revised several works by Molino, Carcassi, Sor, Giuliani, Carulli, Garcia Fortea and he has published a lot of original compositions.

He´s coauthor of “Musica per l’Immagine” (Music for the movies), the official book of the faculty of “History of the Music for the Movies”, University of Lecce. In this book worked together with Ennio Morricone and Nicola Piovani (Oscar prizes).

He´s columnist for the national magazine “Guitar Club” where he is the director of “Classical & Style”: analysis of classical and modern literature of guitar music.

        He is the artistic director of the “Oreste Sindici International Award of Composition” and of the IGS - “Italy Guitar Symposium”.

He is the artistic director of Bèrben (www.berben.it), IGS series (paper and CD) and NewTone series, where he published for Bèrben, Tactus and wave dance and Portrait, Berta’s Portrait, Dedication Nr. 2, Cavatina”.

Many famous composers as Antonio Di Pofi, Rodolfo Ledesma, Uros Dojcinovic, among others, have dedicated to him his works. He is testimonial and endorser of the guitar “Godin” with the “Grisby Music Company” and testimonial of the “D’Addario” strings (www.daddario.com).

He is a researcher also: he studies about dodecaphony, new consonances and computer implementations in music. http://www.sandrodistefano.it