Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri,

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, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta,

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, Chuco Valdes, Egberto Gismonti, Lee Konitz, Bobby McFerrin,

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, Phil Woods, Hector Zazou and has recorded more than 15 albums with trumpeter

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. Bollani has performed with several symphonic orchestras ( Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,

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, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,

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, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others) and with directors such as Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi,

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and Antonio Pappano. He has also played with Italian pop-rock artists and has participated in and hosted TV and radio shows. Currently, he has published 49 albums alone (31 studio).

Biography

Early life

Born in

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to Roberto Bollani, from Lombardy, and a Venetian mother from

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, Maddalena, he has a sister named Manuela born in Alba, Piedmont. He grew up in Florence and began his studies at the Florence Conservatory at the age of 6 and where he graduated in 1993 under the supervision of Maestro Antonio Caggiula. At 15 he had already started to perform professionally. After a short experience touring as a pop artist and after playing in the pop-rock band La Forma, since the mid-nineties he established himself in the jazz scene.

1990s

A crucial event for Bollani's career was meeting

, who he started playing with in 1996. Together they have performed in hundreds of concerts and have recorded more than 15 albums, the first of which are ''Certi angoli segreti'' (1998), ''Rava Plays Rava'' and ''Shades of Chet'' (1999). Around these years Bollani also started playing with some of the most important Italian jazz artists:

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, Roberto Gatto and Enzo Pietropaoli. In 1998 he recorded his first album ''Gnòsi delle fànfole'', based on poems by Fosco Maraini, with singer-songwriter Massimo Altomare. In the same year, he played for the first time with American saxophonist Lee Konitz in ''TenderLee for Chet'', and won the prize for best new talent awarded by Italian magazine '' Musica Jazz''. In 1999 two more albums came out: ''Mambo Italiano'' – recorded with one of his most trusted collaborators, double bass player Ares Tavolazzi – and ''L'orchestra del Titanic'', recorded with the orchestra that gave the name to the album: Antonello Salis, Riccardo Onofri, Raffaello Pareti and Walter Paoli, besides Bollani himself. He also participated in ''Passatori'', by the French accordionist

, with the Solisti dell'Orchestra della Toscana.

2000s

Bollani's collaborations in the first years were not limited to jazz, but included works with Italian pop artists such as Elio, Irene Grandi, Marco Parente, Peppe Servillo, Bobo Rondelli, Banda Osiris, Bandabardò,

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. In the meantime, the partnership with Enrico Rava kept flourishing and together they released ''Montréal Diary/B'' (2001),'' Tati'' (2005), ''

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'' (2007) and '' New York Days'' (2009). Furthermore, Bollani featured in several albums and international tours where he played with such musicians as Gianni Basso, Gianluca Petrella, John Abercrombie, Jeff Ballard,

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, Mark Turner, Phil Woods, Gato Barbieri and

. Two notable collaborations occurred in 2003: one with Russian singer Sainkho Namtchylak (''Who Stole the Sky?''), and one with Hector Zazou who invited Bollani to play alongside him in ''Strong Currents'' (other guests were

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and

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). Between 2002 and 2006, Bollani recorded six albums for French Label Bleu. The series began with ''Les Fleurs bleues'' (2002), inspired by the novel by Raymond Queneu and recorded with Scott Colley and Clarence Penn, followed by ''Småt Småt'' (2003) highlighted by English magazine '' Mojo'' as one of the best albums of the year. In 2004 ''Concertone'' was released, the first album Bollani recorded with a symphonic orchestra – the Orchestra della Toscana directed by Paolo Silvestri – based on which choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti crafted a ballet for the

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. In the same year Bollani also won the New Star Award, conferred for the first time to a non-US musician by Japanese magazine ''Swing Journal''. The last of the four albums was released in 2006, titled '' I visionari'' and recorded with the homonym band formed by Mirko Guerrini, Nico Gori, Ferruccio Spinetti and Cristiano Calcagnile, with special features by Mark Feldman, Paolo Fresu and Petra Magoni (at the time his wife). During these same years, Japanese label Venus Records released four albums by the “Stefano Bollani Trio” formed with Ares Tavolazzi on contrabass and Walter Paoli on drums: ''Black and Tan Fantasy'' (2002), ''Volare'' (2002), ''Falando de amor'' (2003), ''Ma l'amore no'' (2004) and ''I'm in the Mood for Love'' (2007). At the same time Bollani began an intense collaboration with contrabass player Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund, with whom he formed the “Danish Trio”. In a three-year span, Stunt label released ''Mi ritorni in mente'' (2003), ''Close to You'' (2004, with Danish singer Katrine Madsen) and ''Gleda: Songs from Scandinavia'' (2005). Finally, in 2009, ECM published '' Stone in the Water.'' In 2006, ''

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'' was released and the Italian magazine ''Musica Jazz'' awarded it the best album of the year and nominated Bollani for the best Italian musician of the year. The following year, Bollani tackled classical repertoire with the Filarmonica '900 of the Teatro Regio of Turin, directed by

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, by recording the '' Concert champêtre'', '' Les Animaux Modèles'', and the ''Improvisations'' number 13 and 15 by

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. A few months later ''BollaniCarioca'' came out, recorded with important Brazilian artists. In 2007 he played a piano in a

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favela: only

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had done this before. In the same year he won the Hans Koller European Jazz Prize as the best European musician of 2007 and was listed among the five most important musicians of the year by American website ''

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'' alongside

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and

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. Around this time, Bollani appeared again in the Italian pop music scene, but the most relevant collaboration was that started in 2009 with jazz pianist

, with whom Bollani toured through various Italian cities showcasing a totally new duo performance. The live album ''

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'' is based on these performances.

2010–present

On 15 July 2010, Bollani received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from

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. On September 14, the award was presented on the main stage of the Umbria Jazz Festival in

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, Italy by Berklee's former vice president of academic affairs, Larry Monroe. The same year ''Rhapsody in Blue – Concerto in F'' was released. The album includes three classical works by

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played by the

directed by Riccardo Chailly: '' Rhapsody in Blue'' (in the piano and jazz band version by

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), '' Piano Concerto in F'', and ''Rialto Ripples''. The album entered the pop charts ranking at number eight, making it the first ever classical music album in Italy to be included in the top ten. It also won the Platinum award after having sold seventy thousand copies. In 2012, Bollani and Chailly played again with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra to record ''Sound of the 30s'', which includes great classics from the Thirties: Piano Concerto in G major by

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, ''

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'' by

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, ''Tango Ballad'' (from ''

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'') and ''Surabaya Johnny'' (from the '' Happy End'' musical) by

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, and ''A Thousand and One Nights'' by Victor de Sabata. The two played with the

, in

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, and with the Filarmonica della Scala in

. The Milan concert was broadcast live in movie theaters of about 20 countries on April 21, 2012, and recorded on the ''Live at La Scala'' DVD (2013) that includes pieces by George Gershwin ('' Catfish Row'', ''

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'', '' Concerto in F'', ''Rialto Ripples''), by

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(''

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'') and by

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('' Autumn Leaves''). The numerous concerts with symphonic orchestras – directed by Daniel Harding, Kristian Järvi,

and Antonio Pappano among others – did not keep Bollani from recording various albums with other artists, such as ''Big Band!'', with the Hamburg-based NDR Bigband directed by Norwegian saxophonist Geir Lysne (2011; Echo Jazz award 2013), ''Irene Grandi & Stefano Bollani'' (2012), ''O que será'' with Hamilton de Holanda (2013), ''Sheik Yer Zappa'', a tribute to

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's music (2014). Also in 2014, Bollani again recorded with the Danish Trio releasing ''Joy in Spite of Everything'' featuring Mark Turner and Bill Frisell, which was conferred the Best Album of the year award by ''Musica Jazz''. On September 26, Bollani received another International award, namely the JTI Trier Jazz Award. In 2015, Bollani recorded his first album as singer-songwriter ''Arivano gli alieni''. The following year the new album ''Live from Mars'' was released and the project ''Napoli Trip'' begins: Bollani pays tribute to Neapolitan music accompanied by Daniele Sepe, Nico Gori,

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and Jan Bang, and alongside Arye Henriksen, Audun Klive and Hamilton de Holanda. Also in 2016, Bollani participated in Hamilton de Holanda's recording of ''Samba de chico'' and played with Chico Buarque in ''Vai trabalhar vagabundo''. In 2017, he played at the Berliner Philharmonie with Jesper Bodilsen, Morten Lund, the French accordionist Vincent Peirani, and 14 members of the Berliner Philharmonic, paying homage to Italian composers such as Monteverdi,

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, Puccini, Rossini, Rota, and Morricone. Directed and arranged by Geir Lysne, the concert became an album entitled ''Mediterraneo.'' In May 2018, Bollani released ''Que Bom'', the first album of his own label, Alobar; made of new songs and entirely recorded in Rio de Janeiro, it features artists such as

, João Bosco, Jaques Morelenbaum and Hamilton de Holanda. His latest albums include ''Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar'', a solo piano tribute to ''

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'' released on the 50th anniversary of

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and Tim Rice's rock opera, and ''El Chakracanta'', a live recording from Buenos Aires with the Orquesta Sin Fin, conducted by Exequiel Mantega.

Other projects

Bollani wrote and hosted various Italian radio and TV shows: ''Il Dottor Djembè'' ( Radio Rai 3, 2006–2012), ''Sostiene Bollani'' (

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, 2001 and 2013), ''L'importante è avere un piano'' (

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, 2016), and ''Via dei Matti nº0'' (Rai 3, 2021–2022). Bollani has also worked in theater, both as musician-actor and as composer. During the 2015/2016 season he co-wrote, co-directed and acted in ''La regina Dada'' with his partner Valentina Cenni. Bollani has published several books, including the novel ''La sindrome di Brontolo'' (2006) and three works on the world of music: ''L'America di Renato Carosone'' (2004), ''Parliamo di musica'' (2013) and ''Il monello, il guru, l'alchimista e altre storie di musicisti'' (2015). There is also a cartoon character based on Bollani, named Paperefano Bolletta, who appeared for the first time in the Italian version of the ''Disney magazine'',

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pocket books (''

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''), on 22 September 2009.

Awards and honors

Main awards

* 1998: Best New Talent (awarded by Italian magazine '' Musica Jazz'') * 2003: Premio Carosone * 2004: New Star Award (awarded by Japanese magazine ''Swing Journal'') * 2006: Italian musician of the year (''Musica Jazz'') * 2006: ''Piano solo'' album of the year (''Musica Jazz'') * 2007: Hans Koller European Jazz Prize * 2007: Musician of the year (awarded by American website ''

'') * 2009: Paul Acket Award (awarded by

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) * 2010: Capri Global Artist Award * 2010: Musician of the year (''Musica Jazz'') * 2011: Premio Fiorentini nel mondo * 2011: Los Angeles Excellence Award * 2012: Premio Milano per la musica * 2013: Echo Jazz award to ''Big Band!'' (album of the year for the category "Big Band") * 2014: JTI Trier Jazz Award * 2014: ''Joy in Spite of Everything'' album of the year (''Musica Jazz'') * 2019: Premio Monini Una finestra sui due mondi * 2021: Nastro d'Argento for Best Score – ''Carosello Carosone'' * 2021: Flaiano Prize for Best Cultural TV Program – ''Via dei Matti nº0'' * 2021: Tenco Award for Career Achievement * 2022: Soundtrack Stars Award – Critics' Award (

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)ù * 2023: Best Music for the film Il Pataffio at the City of Spello Film Festival * 2023: Classic Lucca Award * 2023: David di Donatello for Best Soundtrack for the film Il Pataffio * 2023: Nomination for Best soundtrack Nastri d'argento for the film Il Pataffio

Honors

* 2008: Gonfalone d'argento (awarded by Tuscany Region) * 2010:

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of Music from

* 2016:

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– Class: Commendatore * Honorary member of the Italian Institute of 'Pataphysics

Discography

As leader

Soundtracks

Gallery

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References

External links

StefanoBollani.com
official site
label bleu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bollani 1972 births Living people Italian jazz pianists 21st-century Italian musicians 21st-century Italian male musicians 21st-century Italian pianists ECM Records artists Musicians from Milan Label Bleu artists Italian male jazz pianists David di Donatello winners Florence Conservatory alumni