Stefano Onorati, pianist, composer and arranger, born in Livorno (Italy) in 1966. He graduated in piano at the Istituto Musicale Mascagni in Livorno and graduated in the Jazz Biennium with honors in 2013 in Bologna. He attended the Siena Jazz winter seminars (from 1989 to 1992) with Enrico Pieranunzi and Stefano Battaglia. Since 1993 he has played Jazz professionally in Italian and foreign Festivals, Theaters and Jazz Clubs (Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, Slovenia, Corsica and England).

Some of the artists with whom has played and / or recorded: Tom Harrell, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tony Scott, Steve Swallow, David Liebman, John Surman, Dave Douglas, Eddie Henderson, Dave Weckl, Ernst Reijseger, Chris Cheek, Hamilton De Holanda, Jeremy Pelt, Ingrid Jensen, Christian Escoudè, James Newton, Lew Tabackin, Dusko Goikovich, Jasper Bloom, Joris Roelefs, Gilad Atzmon, Charlie Wood, Pablo Menares, Francisco Mela, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Roberta Gambarini, Pietro Tonolo, Maurizio Gianmarco, Gianni Basso, Gianluigi Trovesi, Roberto Gatto, Marco Tamburini, Gianluca Petrella, Francesco Bearzatti, Paolo Damiani, Flavio Boltro, Claudio Fasoli, Maria Pia De Vito, Diana Torto, Francesco Cafiso, Robert Bonisolo, Fulvio Sigurtà, Gegè Telesforo, Bruno Tommaso, Tino Tracanna, Fulvio Sisti, Sandro Gibellini, Giovanni Tommaso, Roberto Cecchetto, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Fabrizio Sferra, Ares Tavolazzi, Michele Rabbia, Fabrizio Bosso, Fabio Zeppetella, etc….

Main Festivals Auditoriums, Theaters in which he participated as a solo pianist:

Umbria Jazz, Torino Jazz Festival, Porsche Jazz Festival,“Earl’s Court” London, Martfest (Ankara – Turchia), Radio Rai Fahreneit, Radio Tre Suite, Palazzo dei Congressi Roma, Auditorium della Musica Roma, Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Blue Note (Conservatorio Amsterdam), Nardis (Istanbul), Volterra Jazz, Contemporanea Colline Festival, Caligola Nights, Vico Jazz Winter, Antiphonae Jazz, Veneto Jazz, Fano Jazz, Ferrara Jazz, Ank’Etno Winter Fest, Siena Jazz, Pontremoli Music Festival, Delta Blues, Giotto Jazz Festival, Grey Cat Festival, Macerata Jazz, Ancona Jazz, Fiesole Jazz Festival, Bergamo in Jazz, Barga Jazz Festival, Festival Internazionale Santa Fiora, Giornate del Jazz Italiano in Turchia (Istanbul), Saschall Firenze, Future Best Jazz Pesaro, Festival delle Colline, Arezzo Winter Jazz Festival, Narni Black Festival, Anfiteatro Jazz Lucca, Orbetello Jazz, Jazz in It Vignola, SchlotterFäscht (Zurigo), Paradiso Jazz (Bologna), Arezzo Jazz, Ubi Jazz Winter, Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova), Wine Town Firenze, Serravalle Jazz, Teatro Sociale (Rovigo), Auditorium FLOG (Firenze), Teatro Studio (Firenze), Palazzo Soranzo-Cappello (Venezia), Auditorium Le Fornaci (Arezzo), Palazzo Visconti (Milano), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Lubiana – Slovenia), Palazzo Manzioli (Izola – Slovenia), Teatro Romano (Fiesole), Teatro Angelo dal Foco (Pesaro), Teatro S.Maria della Scala (Siena), Teatro dei Rinnovati (Siena), Teatro dei Differenti (Barga – Lucca), Giardino Ducale (Modena), Teatro Puccini (Firenze), Villa Carpegna (Roma)….

He is co-owner with Fulvio Sigurtà of the Extended Singularity group that has recorded a record for Caligola Records in 2024.

He collaborated for years with Marco Tamburini in the experimental Three Lower Colors trio together with Stefano Paolini.

With this trio, they recorded the music for the film "Blood and Arena" and the "Journey to the Moon" by Melies, which were released in April and May 2010 for the Espresso, with guest Lorenzo Jovanotti.

The Trio has collaborated with both the String Quartet Vertere and the Venezze Big Band, a group of winds from the Conservatory of Rovigo where Onorati has been teaching since 2007.

In his name are the trio "Stefano Onorati Trio" with Stefano Senni and Walter Paoli and co-owner with Fulvio Sigurtà of the duo Singularity and Extended Singularity with Gabriele Evangelista and Alessandro Paternesi.

He has been playing in the Barga Jazz orchestra conducted by B.Tommaso since 2001.

He collaborates with Walter Paoli on a project (The Box) with the use of electronics and total improvisation and the support of live images. They just finished recording a completely improvised album.

Participates in the project of the three "RAR" conservatories (Rovigo, Amsterdam, Rome) with the participation of Paolo Damiani, Marco Tamburini and Edoardo Righini. They record a CD on the music of Misha Mengelberg and hold concerts in Italy and Holland.

In 2012 he was called to be part of a quartet (Marco Tamburini, Edoardo Righini, Walter Paoli and Claudia Tellini)  named "The Legend lives on", a project on the music of Jimi Hendrix, a group with whom he played in Italy and Holland and recorded a cd.

He has worked as a composer and arranger for numerous video works for acronyms, documentaries or advertising music for Rai, Mediaset, Sky, Iveco, Gastaldi etc .... .

He is currently the Chair of the Jazz Piano at the Conservatory of Rovigo.

Main discography:

• Dagli Appennini alle Madonie - Bruno Tommaso & Barga Jazz Ensemble - Caligola Records 2025
• Extended Singularity - (Sigurtà, Onorati, Evangelista, Paternesi) - Caligola Records 2024
• East of the moon - Stefano Onorati & Marco Tamburini - Caligola Records 2023
• Red (Early Recordings) - Three Lower Colours - Caligola Records 2021
• Are you standard? - (Espinoza, Cecchetto, Onorati, Fabbri) - Caligola Records 2021
• My life is now - Reunion Big Band - Caligola Records 2020
• Live at Venezze Jazz Festival – Stefano Onorati Trio (Onorati, Senni, Paoli) – Caligola Records 2013
• Contemporaneo Immaginario - Three Lower Colours & Vertere String Quartet – Note Sonanti 2011
• First Take – Three Lower Colours (Tamburini, Onorati, Paolini) – Caligola 2011
• “Sangue e Arena” DVD – Three Lower Colours & L.Cherubini - Espresso 2010
• Voyage Dans La Lune DVD – Three Lower Colours & L.Cherubini - Espresso 2010
• Shadows – Nico Gori Millenovecento Feat. Tom Harrell-(Gori, Onorati, Senni, Fioravanti) Universal 2010
• The Bright Side of the Moon – Stefano Bedetti Quartet (Bedetti, Onorati, Senni, Paoli) – Philology 2007
• Millenovecento-Nico Gori, Stefano Onorati, Franco Nesti, Ettore Fioravanti-Double Stroke Records-2006
• Sound & Score – Barga Jazz Big Band (Dir. Bruno Tommaso) con E.Rava, P.Fresu, P.Tonolo, M.Tamburini, R.Rossi …Philology  - 2004
• BARGALEE – Big Band Barga Jazz (diretta da Bruno Tommaso) ospite Lee Konitz – Philology 2003