ItalianoConductor, Composer, Pianist
Stefano Teani (Lucca, 1994) is a versatile musician with a strong theatrical sensibility and a natural vocation for music born from the encounter and transformation of different languages.
He graduated in Piano from ISSM “L. Boccherini” in 2014 with highest honors, distinction, and honorable mention. In the following two years, he earned diplomas in Composition and in Applied Music for Film, both with top marks. Over the years he has attended numerous masterclasses, from those at the Boccherini Institute to courses at the North London Piano School and the Mozarteum University Salzburg, studying with distinguished teachers such as Vincenzo Balzani, Aquiles Delle Vigne, and Pietro De Maria.
He refined his studies in Composition with Andrea Portera, Alberto E. Colla, Tristan Murail, Azio Corghi, and Mauro Bonifacio. Since 2015, his music has been performed at festivals such as the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Cluster Music Festival, and Festival Sanctae Juliae, receiving commissions for original works, including in the field of film music, with an output that includes documentaries, feature films, and commercials. In 2018, he was appointed Composer in Residence at the Accademia di Montegral.
His work as a répétiteur began in 2013. In 2015 he was selected as suitable candidate in the audition for répétiteurs at the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and was admitted to Gustav Kuhn’s Accademia di Montegral, with which he has collaborated regularly. In 2016 he was personally selected by Riccardo Muti to attend the Italian Opera Academy.
He studied Conducting with Günter Neuhold, Marcello Bufalini, Gustav Kuhn, Maurizio Barbacini, and Antonello Allemandi. He conducts both symphonic and operatic repertoire, with particular attention to contemporary music. In 2020 he conducted La serva padrona at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca. As Music Director of the Opera Studio Molise project, starting in 2020 he conducted numerous operas—including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, and Carmen—at the Teatro Savoia in Campobasso.
He has conducted various ensembles and orchestras, including Orchestra Toscana Classica, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Filharmonia Kameralna (Poland), and the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil de Zapopan (Mexico).
Since 2023, he has served as assistant conductor in major productions, from La Bohème at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago to Falstaff in West Palm Beach, Florida. He has also obtained the U.S. O-1 Visa (for extraordinary ability) and in 2025 works as Assistant Conductor and Music Staff at Sarasota Opera (Florida).
His pursuit of hybrid and inclusive artistic languages has also led him to engage in Artistic Direction, a role he held from 2022 to 2025 at the Animando Association in Lucca and, starting in 2026, at the Accademia di Montegral.
