Vacchi Fabio
2018 –
Born in Bologna, Fabio Vacchi graduated in composition with Giacomo Manzoni and in choir conducting with Tito Gotti. He moved to Venice in 1974. There he attended Michelangelo Antonioni, who put him in contact with Tonino Guerra, his first librettist, and Luigi Nono, who supported and encouraged him. In the same year he met Hans Werner Henze in Naples, who offered him his support.
These two very different spiritual fathers would leave a mark on his style, aimed at a synthesis of research and innovation on the one hand, tradition and expressiveness on the other. The move to Milan, in 1993, marks a turning point that corresponds to the beginning of international success and friendship both with Luciano Berio, in whose human and stylistic freedom he identifies, and with Claudio Abbado, with whom he shares musical thoughts, projects, and ideas.
After 2000 he collaborated and forged deep ties with directors Ermanno Olmi and Patrice Chereau, as well as with writer Amos Oz. Vacchi still lives in Milan, where he met Riccardo Muti and Riccardo Chailly, who both commissioned him to write important pieces presented in Italy and abroad, where he is composer in residence at the LaVerdi orchestra, and where he lives with his wife, musicologist Lidia Bramani. He has three sons: Boris (1998), Denis (1999), Alessio (2002).
His works have been commissioned or conducted by, among others, Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, David Atherton, John Axelrod, Luciano Berio, Riccardo Chailly, Myung Wun Chung, Ivan Fischer, Beat Furrer, Claire Gibault, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Neville Marriner, Zubin Metha, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Donato Renzetti, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
He has collaborated with directors, actors, writers and artists such as: Daniele Abbado, Gae Aulenti, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Ferdinando Bruni, Patrice Chereau, Gianrico Carofiglio, Lella Costa, Tonino Guerra, Yashar Kemal, Sandro Lombardi, Dacia Maraini, Franco Marcoaldi, Aldo Nove, Ermanno Olmi, Moni Ovadia, Amos Oz, Giulio Paolini, Renzo Piano, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Roberto Roversi, Toni Servillo, Peter Simonischek, Federico Tiezzi, Michele Serra.