Fabio Vacchi

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

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In 1974, Vacchi took courses in the United States at Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, where he obtained the special prize of Koussevitzky. In 1976, his Soupirs de Genèvieve 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. Vacchi's opera Girotondo based on the plot of Arthur Schnitzler, 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.

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Title Soloists Orchestra / Ensemble Conductors Release Label
Luoghi immaginari Marco Lazzara EnsembleMusica20 Guido Guida, Mauro Bonifacio 1996 BMG Ricordi CRMCD 1043
Suite in "2xMöller" Duo2xM - - 1996 nosag CD 054
La station thermale Cécile Besnard, Christophe Lacassagne, Pomone Epoméo, Catherine Renerte Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon Claire Gibault 1998 BMG Ricordi 74321356142 (2 CDs)
Wanderer Oktett – Dionysos - Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Contempoartensemble, Agon Acustica Informatica Musica Emilio Pomarico, Mauro Ceccanti 2000 Stradivarius STR 33597
Movimento di quartetto in "Quartetti per archi: Schubert, Vacchi, Ligeti" - Quartetto Savinio - 2004 Paragon, CD supplement for Amadeus magazine, June 2004 SMF 001-2
Gabrielle Raina Kabaivanska, Pavel Vernikov Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "G.Verdi" Claire Gibault 2005 Sony BMG 82876730902
Quintetto in "Rotte sonore" - Dedalo Ensemble Vittorio Parisi 2007 Stradivarius STR 33747
Mignon (Über die Sehnsucht) in "La voce contemporanea in Italia vol.3" Tiziana Scandaletti, Riccardo Piacentini - - 2007 Stradivarius STR 33769
Luoghi immaginari Marco Lazzara EnsembleMusica20, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Guido Guida, Mauro Bonifacio 2007 Stradivarius STR 57005

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Teneke (opera)

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