Stefano Gervasoni studied composition at the Milan Conservatory with Luca Lombardi, Niccolò Castiglioni, and Azio Corghi. His encounters with Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös, and Helmut Lachenmann, as well as Gérard Grisey and Heinz Holliger, were decisive in his career.
A resident of the Villa Médicis (1995-96), a DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin (2006), and the "Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award" (2018), he has been teaching composition at the Paris Conservatory since 2006. Philippe Albéra dedicated a book to him in 2015: Stefano Gervasoni, Le parti pris des sons (Contrechamps).
Several monographic CDs published by Winter & Winter are devoted to his chamber music, for instrumental and vocal ensembles and three new CDs were released in 2020 (by Kairos, Naïve, and Stradivarius).
Listen to: Stefano Gervasoni
- Su un arco di bianco by Stefano Gervasoni (recorded at Centquatre-Paris, 2019)
- Altra voce by Stefano Gervasoni (recorded at the Centre Pompidou, 2018)
- Capriccio Ostico by Stefano Gervasoni (recorded at the Centre Pompidou, 2018)
- Fado errático by Stefano Gervasoni (recorded at the Centre Pompidou, 2015)