Fabio Vacchi

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Fabio Vacchi (pronounced "Vahkie") is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.

In 1974, Vacchi took courses in the United States at Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, where he learned the value of the compositions of Koussevitzky. In 1976, his Soupirs de Genève for eleven string instruments soloists earned him first place at the Gaudeamus Contest in the Netherlands. The Venice Biennale devoted two monographic concerts to him in 1979 and 1981. According to Arthur Schnitzler, Vacchi's opera Girotondo was performed at the 1982 Mai Musical Florentin, an international festival of lyrical arts.

In 1990, the Teatro Comunale of Bologna performed his Il Viaggio, an opera based on a work of Tonino Guerra. In 1993, Vacchi directed La Station thermale, based on a booklet of Myriam Tanant largely inspired in turn by Carlo Goldoni's Il bagni d'Abano, for the Lyon National Opera, and put it up for wider performance in 1994 and 1995 in the Opéra Comique of Paris and other French theatres.

In December 1995, Vacchi directed an interpretation of Pantomime Faust, a choreographic poem by Heinrich Heine, at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. In December 1998 his opera Les Oiseaux de Passage, based on a booklet of Myriam Tanant, was performed by the Lyon National Opera and Teatro Comunale of Bologna. As of 2000, Vacchi is working on a composition of Il letto della storia, based on a booklet of Franco Marcoaldi, which will be completed in 2003, as well as Teneke, which he plans to create during the 2004-2005 season in combination with the Châtelet Theatre. Vacchi was also charged to complete an unfinished opera of Manuel de Falla, El Fuego Fatuo.

Vacchi's instrumental pieces include: Luoghi Immaginari (1987-1992), the cantata Sacer Sanctus for chorus and instruments (1997), and Notturno concertante for guitar and orchestra (1994).

In 2001, Vacchi composed music for the film Il mestiere delle armi of Ermanno Olmi.