Stefano is an Italian-American composer based in Los Angeles. Stefano started his musical career in his native Italy at the age of nine, studying piano with Professor Antonio Ranalli, student of Ferruccio Busoni. His journey as a student culminated with a Master’s Degree in Composition under the guidance of Maestro Alessandro Cusatelli. He also studied Organ with Professor Biondi, Violin with Professor Alessandra Albo and Drums and Percussion with Professor Messina.

Stefano relocated to the US with the assistance of Academy Award winning composer Bill Conti. He has collaborated on several projects with world-renowned tenor Plácido Domingo. The original music he has composed for the Maestro brought him to the attention of the Butler Opera Center in Austin (Texas), who commissioned him an Opera.

Stefano has scored “Boy in the Void”, directed by Miroslav Macala (2012), “L’Homme Sans Musique”, directed by Stefano Arduino (2013) and “Amalia”, directed by Biagio Fersini (“Best Original Score” at the “Sonora Soundtrack Film Festival”, (2014), “Road To Juarez”, directed by David De Leon (2015), “Lyudmila”, directed by Biagio Fersini (2015), "HTETU", directed by James Frehn (2022) and “Diane”, directed by Damarrus Grant (2023). Stefano also collaborated on the soundtrack of the Oscar Nominated Animated Feature Film "Anomalisa", directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman (2015).

In 2018 Stefano has been chosen as the “in-house composer” for a set of feature films produced by Manhattan Film, a production company owned by Anthony Michael Hall. In 2022 Stefano has also started a collaboration with MKC Media to score their feature films.

In addition to creating music, Stefano is also an avid formula race car driver. He has participated in race events across Europe.

Interview with VoyageLA Magazine

Plácido Domingo, the Spanish tenor best known globally for his performances as one of the “Three Tenors” with Jose Carreras and the late Luciano Pavarotti, has spoken of his emotion at fulfilling a promise made to the late John Paul II by releasing a CD of twelve new songs set to the late pontiff's poems.

Launching the CD “Amore Infinito” (“Infinite Love”) at the Vatican, Domingo said he had suggested the project to John Paul in 2004, a year before the Pope's death, and the Pope had accepted “with joy”. The tenor said the songs, which he described as in “crossover" style between classical and popular genres, were of "immense significance to me, and not just because I am a Catholic”.

He said they would appeal not only to Christians but also to “all those who hold John Paul in deep respect”. The late Pope had been “a man of rare greatness who chose to dedicate his life to the service of humanity and of God”. The singer said the Polish-born Pope was “unquestionably a saint”. He had possessed such force and energy that if he had not suffered the consequences of the attempt on his life in 1981, “he would still be Pope today”.

Domingo said he had chosen poems in which the Pope had expressed insight into human emotions which would “appeal to all of us”, such as a poem about laying flowers on his mother's grave. He had invited a number of composers to submit compositions, and had chosen songs by Jorge Calandrelli, Stefano Tomaselli and his son Placido Domingo Jr., among others.

On the CD Domingo sings duets with Plácido Domingo Jr., Katherine Jenkins, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and Vanessa Williams, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Nick Ingman. Three of the poems are in English: “A Mother's Wonderment”, “Gratitude”, and “Love”, the latter sung with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus. Michael Lang, president of Deutsche Grammophon, which produced the CD, said it was destined to become “a classic”.

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