Stefanos Korkolis was born in Athens, Greece. He began improvising on the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Conservatoire of Athens. He studied with a scholarship by the French Government, orchestration, conducting, composition and cinema music at the Ecole Normale in Paris.
During '90s he collaborates with orchestras such as the Prague Radio Orchestra, the Sofia Radio Orchestra, the Amadeus Orchestra, the Camerata and others as a soloist and composer. He has participated in the greatest festivals of the world and he has recently performed at the Athens Concert Hall, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Odeon Herodus Atticus, at the Prague Festival, the Carre Theatre of Amsterdam, the Dresden Classic Festival, Berlin etc.
He has also collaborated with the famous Portuguese artist Dulce Pontes touring around the world since 2003, being her permanent conductor, orchestrator and pianist. The most recent concerts took place at the Opera of La Corunia, at the Concertbaum in Netherlands, Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon Portugal and in Brazil.
His worldwide collaborations include: Michalis Kakoyiannis (Director of the Film Zorba the Greek), Alfredo Kraus, Jose Carreras, Vicki Leandros, Irene Pappas, The Scorpions, Nana Mouskouri, Lucio Dalla, and Ennio Morricone.
Singers like, George Dalaras, Dimitra Galani, Dulce Pontes, Alkistis Protopsalti and some more, are his friends in life and in music.