was born in Bormio in Italy. He was awarded a diploma with honours at the "G. Verdi" Conservatory of Milan and continued his studies at the Conservatoire Superieure at Geneva where he studied with Maxence Larrieu and won the ‘Prix de Virtuosite’. At the Ecole National de Musique in Paris, Parrino studied with Patrick Gallois and followed the performance and virtuosity diplomas for which he gained the ‘premier prix all’ unanimite’ and "le premier prix avec excellence". In London, he obtained the postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in the class of William Bennett, Sebastian Bell, Kate Hill, and Keith Brag. Then in Biella in Italy, Parrino studied with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Accademia Internazionale "L. Perosi" where he won the "Eccellenza con Menzione Speciale". In 2001 he took the Soloist diploma in the “Lugano Conservatoire”. He has also played at master classes with Jacques Zoon, Patrick Gallois, Paul Edmund Davies, Michael Cox, Andras Adorjan, Michel Debost, William Bennett, Maxence Larrieu, Susan Milan, Peter-Lukas Graf.
Parrino has won and reached the final of numerous national and international competitions which include the Schubert competition (both as soloist and in chamber music), Endas, Cilea 1994, All Flutes Plus, Citta di Stresa, Citta di Colleferro and Pergolesi. He started a brilliant and intense soloist and orchestral career at a very young age, and various chamber groups of duos and trios have allowed him to appear with musicians such as Antony Pay, Vladimir Mendelsshon, Stephen Burns, Ubaldo Fioravanti, Stefano Canuti, Luca Lucchetta, Guido Corti, Luca Vignali, Susan Milan, Peter-Lukas Graf, Patrick Gallois, Alessandro Marangoni, Luigi Attademo, Iagoba Fanlo. He has performed in theatres and concert halls of the most prestigious kind all over Europe and South America (Chile, Turkey, France, Peru, Colombia, Portugal, Italy, Rumania and Great Britain) and has collaborated with cultural institutes such as those of Oporto, Lisbon, Lima, Istanbul, Santiago and Bucharest, and with other concert associations. He has won wide acclaim both from his public audience and from the press. He has been invited to numerous festivals such as the Amadeus ’94, Lago Maggiore Musica ’95 and ’96, Portogruaro ’95 and ’96, Settembre all’Isola di San Giulio ’94, Festival di San Lorenzo, the inaugurational concert of the Oresteiades ’97, E…venti d’Estate, Notturni in Villa, Mozart 2000, E…state con noi and Summer Classics. Parrino has been the principal flautist in several orchestras, most notably the Simphony e Sinfonia of the Royal Academy in London, Luglio Musicale Trapanese, EUR Pesaro, the “A.Toscanini” orchestra of Parma "Teatro Regio" of Tourin, "Solisti Veneti" and "Filarmonica Marchigiana" in Ancona, has worked with conductors such as Peter Stark, Lynn Harrel, Stephen Barlow, Lutz Koeler, Juan Cantarell Rocha, Antonello Allemandi, Manlio Benzi, Paolo Olmi, Anton Guadagno, Gyorgy Rath, Denise Fedeli, Pierre Fournillier, Emmanuel Siffert, Claudio Scimone. He has played concerts in Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and France, and has participated in a selection of festivals including the ‘Ligeti’ and ‘B.Britten’. Parrino is also the flautist of the Albatros Ensemble, a trio for flute, violin and pianoforte which has recorded the CDs 'Il Triangolo' and 'Nino Rota Improvviso' for the Stradivarius Label. Composers such as, Danuta Zankovska, Giovanni Bietti, Luciano Chailly, Bruno Bettinelli, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Fabrizio Festa, Giorgio Gaslini, Alessandro Timossi, Delilah Gutman, Adeline Wong, Simone Fontanelli and Luca Russo have dedicated works to Stefano Parrino and to the ensembles in which he plays. Along with his busy concert program, Parrino has also given Masterclasses on circular breathing and Flute at the Conservatories of Novara, Campobasso, Monopoli, Padua, Venice for the 'Orquestra Nacional Juvenil' and 'Universita Catolica' of Santiago, Chile, Esquela Superior de Musica ‘L. Lavalle’ Arequipa (Perù) CSI of Lugano. He has also been guest professor at the UCLA, Pomona College, UCSD, California School of Arts, Oberlin Conservatory of music, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Hartt School of Music and the Yale university in the United States, the Royal welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff , the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Trinity College of Music in London and the Royal Northern College Manchester, the St. Petersburg Music Conservatoire (Korsakov) in the Russian Federation the Oulu Polytechnic and Kälviä in Finland, the RCSM of Madrid in Spain, the Oslo Musikkhøgkolen in Norway. Stefano is chamber music teacher at the 'A.Corelli' Conservatoire in Messina. The second of August 2006 he performed as a soloist with the 'A.Toscanini' Orchestra conducted by Stephen Alltop, the concert has been broadcasted live on 'Radio Rai' channel 3. From June 2008 Stefano has been invited to teach chamber music and flute at the Kälviä Music campus in Finland and from 2009 he is flute teacher at the Vitoria-Gasteiz international summer course in Spain.