Simone Stella

Born in Florence in 1981, Simone Stella studied piano with Marco Vavolo and Rosanita Racugno, organ with Mariella Mochi and Alessandro Albenga and harpsichord with Francesco Cera, and attended masterclasses held by Ton Koopman, Matteo Imbruno and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini. After winning the 1st International Organ Competition “Agati- Tronci” in Pistoia, Stella started a brilliant soloist career that brought him performing in many important festivals in Europe, USA and Brazil, where he has also held masterclasses. His monumental 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 and Johann Pachelbel recorded for Brilliant Classics, and works of Bach, Handel, Rameau and Cherubini for the labels OnClassical and Amadeus Rainbow. He has also collaborated with the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo and La Filharmonie symphonic orchestra. Active as a composer, Simone Stella has published works for the Italian publisher Armelin of Padua. Since 2011 Stella is the titular organist of the historical organs of the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.