Tenor and soprano sax player and composer, born in Palermo, has performed and/or recorded, among many others, with: Pietro Leveratto, Nicola Muresu, Alessandro Minetto, Mariano Tedde, Marco Vaggi, Tony Arco, Sandro Gibellini, Piero Di Rienzo, Antonio Zambrini, Jorge Rossy, Paolino Dalla Porta, Francesca Corrias, Alessandro Di Liberto, Marcello Pellitteri, Raffaele Genovese, Marco Tamburini, Ignacio Berroa, Harvie S, Fabrizio Sferra, Ares Tavolazzi, Mauro Schiavone, Emmanuel Bex, Ben Monder, JoAnne Brackeen, Pietro Ciancaglini, Pietro Lussu, David Berkman, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard, Pietro Iodice, Marvi La Spina, Stefano Bollani, Lanfranco Malaguti, Umberto Fiorentino, Enzo Pietropaoli, Enrico Pieranunzi, Diederik Wissels, Stefano Sabatini, Mimmo Cafiero, Enrico Bracco, Fabrizio Bosso. In 1992 Stefano D'Anna has won the yearly critics poll "Top Jazz", held by the Italian magazine "Musica Jazz", resulting first in the category "Best New Talent". Since 2020 he teaches at G.P. da Palestrina Conservatory in Cagliari .