Carlos Stella (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer. Self-taught in composition, Stella studied piano at the Buenos Aires National Conservatory of Music and in 1985 he was invited by Krzysztof Penderecki to the . Back in Buenos Aires he received other scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the and began to work for the with director . He lives in Berlin, Germany, since 1999.