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Stefano Scatozza is an italian guitarist, composer and arranger, born in Rome in 1964.
In 1998, with lyricist Danilo Selvaggi and singer Raffaella Misiti, he founded the band "Acustimantico". Acustimantico has now six cd's out and a lot of awards won
- 1999 Sonica prize for emerging bands
- 2002 First Fabrizio De Andrè Prize for the new songwriting
- 2003, "Best Music Prize" and "Critics Prize" in Recanati's Festival of songwriting
-2004, Best Repertoire, Mantova Music Festival
-2004, Best self-produced cd, for Acustimantico's "Santa Isabel" at MEI Festival, Faenza
With Acustimantico and with his own project called "Snow Cycle", Stefano has played in many festivals in Italy and abroad (Germany 2000,2002,2007; France 2004, Japan 2005, 2007; Canada 2007)
As orchestra conductor he has worked with many ensembles.
Actually he is the conductor of the "Caravan Orchestra" (since 2002) and of the "41° parallel orchestra" (2009)
"Snow Cycle" is the title of his last cd, recorded in Canada with a group of wonderful international musicians. The cd is distributed in Italy by Egea distribution and is available on Itunes and other web shops.
Stefano composed a lot of music for theatre, musicals, TV, and movies.
He's also teaching musical theory, harmony and arrangement at Percento Musica School of Rome, and pop composition at Frosinone Conservatory of Music.
