Carlton Granberry Award winner for performance, Stefano Kalonaris was born in Florence, where he picked up the instrument at 14 and has been performing ever since.   

Naturally curious, he expanded his knowledge of world music travelling extensively to Central and South America, studying Afro-Cuban and Brazilian percussion and string instruments such as tres, cavaquinho and 7 string guitar.

He has played at the Jazz Cafe, the Vortex, Cargo, Pop, Woody's, the Cobden Club, the Cliffs Pavilion, the Oxford, the Florence Fringe Festival, the Cinigiano Festival, the Pelago "On the road" Festival and Barga Jazz.