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Stefano Pastor has graduated in violin and, with full marks, in Jazz. He followed his studies with Claudio Marzorati, Carlo Pozzi, Piero Farulli, Lorenzo Lugli, Piero Leveratto and attends Masters with Enrico Rava and Dave Liebman. In 1982 wins the contest "Laboratorio Lirico Sperimerntale", and for two years he performs with "Orchestra of Teatro di Alessandria". Since then he Played in many orchestras such as the “Angelicum Symphony Orchestra” in Milano sharing the stage with important soloists and directors as Josè Carreras, Cecilia Gasdia, Simone Alaimo, Paul Badura- Skoda, Lev Markiz, Edardo Muller, Massimo Biscardi, Daniele Gatti, Pietro Borgonovo. He takes part to disc recordings with Massimo De Bernard, Mauro Ceccanti, the art-rock group Picchio dal Pozzo and the popoular singer-song- writer Paolo Conte. During six years he is first violin of the string quartet "Leon Battista Alberti", recording often for Italian National television (RAI) and performing live regularly. At the present he devotes himself entirely to jazz music performing live with a lot of important jazz musicians like Borah Bergman, Harry Beckett, George Haslam, Paul Hession, Piero Leveratto, Maurizio Giammarco, Cristopher Culpo, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giorgio Dini, Giampaolo Casati, Claudio Capurro, Mauro Negri, Mario Raja, Bruno Tommaso, Luciano Milanese, Nando De Luca e Alberto Tacchini. In 2004 he issues the CD as leader “Una Notte in Italia” for the Italian label Videoradio obteining the favour of Italian and European critics. In the same year he is assistant at orchestra director Mario Raja at the clinics of Siena Jazz School. In 2005 wins second prize at the prestigious “Rassegna Giovani Musicisti” in Cervo (Italy) and is finalist at “International Arranging and Composition Competition for Jazz Orchestra” with a work on Wayne Shorter, soloist Claudio Fasoli. In 2006 he issues the second CD as leader named Transmutations, by the English label SLAM Productions. The review of musical research called “Suono Sonda” publishes a work written by Stefano Pastor and the poetess Erika Dagnino entitled “Cicli”. This work becomes later a four movement suite and it is issued in May 2007 with the title “Cycles” by SLAM. The discs "Holywell Session - Live in Oxford" e "Helios Suite" both issued by SLAM in 2007 came out from a period of concert and recording in England made in 2006. The “Jazz Lighhouse” association, in collaboration with the Genova Commune, awards to Pastor a special prize “for the research of new expressive ways in jazz music”. In 2007 releases “Uncrying Sky” for Silta Records with Schiaffini, Dini and Rotella, a project based on music and poem by Pastor himself. He gives a series of concert in duo, documented by RAI - Radio tre, with the pianist Borah Bergmen from NYC and records, with him, a new CD that will be issued in 2008.