Stefano Vagnini

Stefano Vagnini (2009)

Stefano Vagnini (born 1963) is an Italian musician, composer, poet and Modular Art theorist who lives and brings his music around the world.

Biography

Stefano Vagnini was born in Fano, Italy.

Stefano Vagnini studied organ, composition and electronic music at the “G. Rossini” conservatory in Italy and at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. He earned a degree in organ, organ composition with Professor Armando Pierucci and in electronic music with Professor Eugenio Giordani at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Pesaro (Italy). Organ masterclass with: Monserrat Torrent, Michael Radulescu, Liuwe Tamminga, André Isoir, Sarah L. Martin.

Stefano Vagnini has taught organ and composition at the Conservatories of Verona and L'Aquila (Italy).

Since 1986 he is the art director of the International Organ Festival at Santa Maria Nuova in Fano, Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists performed; inter alia Liuwe Tamminga, Michael Radulescu, Arturo Sacchetti, Gaston Litaize, Odile Pierre.

Since 1997 he developed a new composing methodology, specifically applied to music, called ModulArt.

Since 2003 together with soprano Giorgia Ragni, he formed a musical duo in art and in life called Aidaduo. Aidaduo researches, elaborates and creates new kind of concerts and Modular performances which are presented through seminars and conferences in Universities and cultural centers around the world.

Works

Concerts as organist and choir director in Italy,[1] the U.S.A (’86,’08,’09,’10,'11,'12), France (’89,’06,'12), Germany (’92,’93,’99,‘06,'12), Austria (‘99), Switzerland (’99,‘10), Russia (‘95), Brazil (’95,’98), Argentina (’95,’98), Uruguay (’95,‘98), China (’98), Spain ('05, '07) England ('11), Scotland ('12), Denmark ('12), Poland (’12,'14), Finland ('12) Korea ('13,'14).

Stefano Vagnini has conducted the Slave Song gospel choir[2] and the Mezio Agostini opera choir, Fano, Italy.

Compositions and performances

Ballet

Theater

Video

Organ solo

Organ and tape

Orchestra

Beijing Concert Hall, (China), 1998, first sacred opera authorized by the Chinese Popular Authority;
Fano, (Italy),Corte Malatestiana, 1998
Sao Paulo, Monasterio de Sao Bento, 1998
Montevideo,1998
Buenos Aires, San Telmo Cathedral, 1998
Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm Kirche, 2003
Salzburg, (Austria), Dome, 1999
Lausanne, (Switzerland), Cathedral, 1999
Potsdam, (Germany), 1999
Biberach, (Germany), 1999
Rastatt, (Germany), 1999
Geislingen an der Steige, (Germany), 1999
Warstein, (Germany), 1999
Darmstadt, (Germany), 2000
Tolentino, (Italy), Saint Nicola Sanctuary
Fossano, (Italy)
Cermenate, (Italy)

AiDADUO

AiDADUO Style is a combination of classical music (piano and soprano) incorporating literature, cinema and fine arts mixed with a constant innovative, experimental and ironic research.

AiDADUO Performance-shows

Alessandria, (Italy), 2004
Viareggio, (Italy), 2005
Tolentino, (Italy), Cappellone of San Nicola, 2005
Narbonne, (France), 2006
Fabrezan, (France), 2006
El Medano, Tenerife, (Spain), 2007
Rome, (Italy), St Paul's Within the Walls Cathedral, 2010[3]
Ligornetto, (Switzerland), Cathedral, 2010[4]
Milan, (Italy), Santa Rita Sanctuary, 2010
Rochester, (England), Cathedral, 2011

Piano solo

ModulArt

ModulArt in a new composing methodology theorized and applied to music by Stefano Vagnini.[6] The modular composition system extends its procedure to compositions licensed by the musician as completed works of art. To these compositions one can overlap new modules. The new modules can be added by the same author in a different moment or by different authors. Greek History University Professor Umberto Bultrighini describes "Vagnini's ability to satisfy old needs and combine them with modern technology. ModulArt as the key answer to the need of defining the artist's work, finding the right balance between art, audience and copyrights".[7] Stefano Vagnini's ModulArt is theorized and applied in a theoretical book,[8] in a book + DVD of modular poems[9] and a cd.[10] Writer, painter, and art theorist Gian Ruggero Manzoni described the modularity of Vagnini's compositions as “circular like the existence, his works are not finished, but merely stimulus for new voices”.[11] Vagnini's ModulArt in musical composition coincides and was developed independently during the same period of time with Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt in the realm of painting. Both hold that the artist’s tools to creativity are virtually unlimited by way of ModulArt.

ModulArt Projects

ModulArt Performances

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ EDT Editor, Opera 2006. Annuario dell'Opera lirica in italia, 2006, pp 74
  2. ↑ Slave Song gospel and spiritual choir website http://www.slavesong.it/files/pdf/curricumul_stefano_vagnini_en.pdf
  3. ↑ International Organ Summer Festival in Rome http://www.marcolomuscio.com/images/programs/2010/Organ%20Festival%202010/Rome%20Festival%202010_St.%20Paul%20Church.jpg
  4. ↑ Primavera Organistica, Ligornetto, Switzerland http://www.ato-ti.ch/Primavera_Organistica_2010_Ligornetto_1.pdf
  5. ↑ Sono Ergo Sum Official website Carifano Foundation http://fondazionecarifano.it/sono_ergo_sum_festival/sono_ergo_sum_festival.htm
  6. ↑ Giorgia Ragni, Rai Italian Television Interview on Stefano Vagnini's ModulArt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brCx3wWr0I
  7. ↑ Umberto Bultrighini, Vagnini, The Modular Method in Music, Views of an Open Art, English and Italian, pp 57, Rome: Falcon Valley Music, 2002
  8. ↑ Falcon Valley Music Editors, Stefano Vagnini The Modular Method in music, view of an open art, Rome, Italy, 2002
  9. ↑ Campanotto Ed. Salmodie Subliminali, Udine, Italy, 2007
  10. ↑ Falcon Valley Music Ed., Via Crucis, Rome, Italy, 2002
  11. ↑ Gian Ruggero Manzoni, in: Vagnini, Stefano: SalmodieSubliminali, Campanotto Editions, Udine, 2007, pp 7-8
  12. ↑ Zoo, http://www.villecastella.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/VC_2002.pdf depliant 2002, pp 11
  13. ↑ The Miami Herald, Thursday May 14th 2009
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