Stefano Vagnini is an Italian musician, composer, poet and Modular Art theorist who lives and works in Italy and in the United States.

Biography

Stefano Vagnini was born in Fano

Fano

Fano is a town and comune of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort 12 km southeast of Pesaro, located where the Via Flaminia reaches the Adriatic Sea...

, Italy

Italy

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Stefano Vagnini studied organ

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

, composition and electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 at the “G. Rossini” conservatory in Italy and at Georgia State University

Georgia State University

Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...

 in Atlanta, USA. He earned a degree in organ, organ composition with Professor Armando Pierucci

Armando Pierucci

Fra Armando Pierucci, a Franciscan, was born in Moie , Italy, on September 3, 1935. He graduated from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, from the Music Conservatories of Naples, and from the Rossini Music Conservatory in Pesaro. Amongst his composition professors he proudly mentions...

 and in electronic music with Professor Eugenio Giordani at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Pesaro (Italy).
Organ masterclass with: Monserrat Torrent, Michael Radulescu

Michael Radulescu

Michael Radulescu is a Romanian-German composer, organist, and professor.He was born to a Romanian father and a German mother. He studied with Anton Heiller and Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria....

, Liuwe Tamminga, André Isoir

André Isoir

André Isoir is a renowned French organist.Isoir studied with Édouard Souberbielle and Germaine Mounier at the École César-Franck and under Rolande Falcinelli at the Paris Conservatoire where he won the first prizes in organ and improvisation in 1960.Thereafter he won several international organ...

, 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

Michael Radulescu

Michael Radulescu is a Romanian-German composer, organist, and professor.He was born to a Romanian father and a German mother. He studied with Anton Heiller and Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria....

, Arturo Sacchetti

Arturo Sacchetti

Arturo Sacchetti Italian organist, conductor and musicologist. He worked as artistic director at the Radio Vatican....

, Gaston Litaize

Gaston Litaize

Gaston Gilbert Litaize was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris...

, Odile Pierre.

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

ModulArt

Modular art is art created by joining together standardized units to form larger, more complex compositions. In some works the units can be subsequently moved, removed and added to – that is, modulated – to create a new work of art, different from the original or ensuing configurations.- Origins...

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Since 2003 together with soprano Giorgia Ragni, he formed a musical duo in art and in life called Aidaduo.
Aidaduo research, elaborate and create new kind of concerts, Modular performances, giving seminars and conferences on Modulart in Universities around the world.

Works

Concerts as organist and choir director in Italy, the U.S.A (’86,’08,’09,’10,'11), France (’89,’06)), Germany (’92,’93,’99,‘06), Austria (‘99), Switzerland (’99,‘10), Russia (‘95), Brazil (’95,’98), Argentina (’95,’98), Uruguay (’95,‘98), China (’98), Africa (‘04), Spain ('05, '07) and England ('11).

Stefano Vagnini has conducted the Slave Song gospel choirand the Mezio Agostini opera choir, Fano, Italy.

Compositions and performances

Ballet

• Cappuccetto Rosso: Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, performed in France and Fano, (Italy)
• Le Fou de Notre Dame: choreographer Sylvie Roukhadze’
• Kroma

Theater

• Waiting for Godot: Transteatro Fano Production, director Massimo Puliani, Napoli and Roma (Italy)
• Thesys: director Fernando Scarpa
  Fernando Scarpa
  Fernando Scarpa is an international award winning director and actor.-Biography:Fernando Scarpa began his career in theater in 1990 and has achieved extensive international recognition in Europe...
  
  , Wittenberg
  Wittenberg
  Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a city in Germany in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, on the river Elbe. It has a population of about 50,000....
  
  , (Germany), 2002
• Luther Stories: director Fernando Scarpa, Wittenberg, (Germany)

Video

• Incubi Catodici: director Renato Toniato, (Italy) winning the following awards:
• Mirano Award: 1985, Mirano, (Italy)
• The Linz Award: 1986, Linz, (Austria)
• Concerto a Berlino: director Stefano Vagnini, Teatro della Fortuna, Fano, (Italy)

Organ solo

• Meditazione
• Meditazione 2
• Preludio, Ricercare e Finale
• Luci
• Aenigma
• Les Danses Modulaires

Organ and tape

• Isola di Koch: performed in Pesaro (Italy), Auditorium Pedrotti, Fano, Santa Maria Nuova Church.

Orchestra

• Il Meraviglioso Segreto del Biondo (Part A): commissioned by il Teatro della Fortuna, Fano (Italy), art director Fabrizio Festa.
• Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross
  Stations of the Cross
  Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. The tradition as chapel devotion began with St...
  
  ): modular oratory performed at:

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

• Aenigma: performed in

Alessandria, (Italy), 2004

Viareggio, (Italy), 2005

• Il Viaggio Sospeso: performed in

Tolentino, (Italy), Cappellone of San Nicola, 2005

• Back to Bach: performed in

Narbonne, (France), 2006

Fabrezan, (France), 2006

El Medano, Tenerife, (Spain), 2007

• Ouroburos: performed in Fano, (Italy), Santa Maria Nuova church, 2007
• Toccate, Voli e ricercari su Salve Regina: performed in Bologna, (Italy), San Giacomo Maggiore Church, 2007
• Gabersuite: performed in Fano, (Italy), in the “Testi e Tasti” Festival, 2009
• EatalianGrandpianofood: performed in Washington D.C., (USA), Italian Embassy, 2010
• Sacrariae: performed in

Rome, (Italy), St Paul's Within the Walls Cathedral, 2010

Ligornetto, (Switzerland), Cathedral, 2010

Milan, (Italy), Santa Rita Sanctuary, 2010

Rochester, (England), Cathedral, 2011

• Small Packages from Italy: performed in Carrollton, Georgia (USA), Carrollton Cultural Art Center, in November 2010
• Christmas Alio Modo: performed in Carrollton, Georgia (USA), Tanner Hospital Harmony for Healing, in December 2010
• Visions: performed in Carrollton, Georgia (USA), Carrollton Cultural Art Center, in January 2011
• The Gothic Dream: performed in Carrollton, Georgia (USA), University of West Georgia, in February 2011. Modular project comminssioned by the University of West Georgia

Piano solo

• Il Punto G: Cagli Teatro Comunale, (Italy), “Testi e Tasti” Festival
• Aspettando Godot + Not Film: Fano, (Italy), “Testi e Tasti” Festival

ModulArt

ModulArt

ModulArt

Modular art is art created by joining together standardized units to form larger, more complex compositions. In some works the units can be subsequently moved, removed and added to – that is, modulated – to create a new work of art, different from the original or ensuing configurations.- Origins...

 in a new composing methodology theorized and applied to music by Stefano Vagnini. 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". Stefano Vagnini's ModulArt is theorized and applied in a theoretical book, in a book + DVD of modular poems and a cd. 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”.
Vagnini's ModulArt in musical composition coincides and was developed independently during the same period of time with Leda Luss Luyken's

Leda Luss Luyken

Leda Luss Luyken, née Valata, , Greece, is a Greek | American conceptual artist who lives and works in Germany.- Biography :...

 ModulArt

ModulArt

Modular art is art created by joining together standardized units to form larger, more complex compositions. In some works the units can be subsequently moved, removed and added to – that is, modulated – to create a new work of art, different from the original or ensuing configurations.- Origins...

 in the realm of painting. Both hold that the artist’s tools to creativity

Creativity

Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...

 are virtually unlimited by way of ModulArt.

ModulArt Projects

• Via Crucis
• Zoo - world modular project performed in Italy June 2002, Festival Villa e Castella, art director Nino Finauri and in Sunny Isles Beach Miami, May 2009
• Zero
• Aenigma
• Messa Picena

ModulArt Performances

• Back to Bach
• Sconcerto
• Gabersuite
• SacrAriae
• Small Packages from Italy
• Visions
• The Gothic Dream

Publications

• 1990 - Isola di Koch - LP recorded and performed in Notre Dame de Paris
  Notre Dame de Paris
  Notre Dame de Paris , also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra of...
  
  (France), 1986, “L’orgue du Dimanche” Organ Festival (Ed. Nautilus, Fano)
• 1994 - Nicolaus - CD (Ed. Bongiovanni, Bologna)
• 2002 - Via Crucis - CD (Ed. Falcon Valley Music, Roma)
• 2002 - The Modular Method in Music – Book (Ed. Falcon Valley Music, Roma)
• 2003 - Messa Picena (Ed. Falcon Valley Music, Roma)
• 2007 - Salmodiesubliminali - Poems’ Book + DVD (Ed. Campanotto, Udine)

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