Stefano Vagnini


Stefano Vagnini is an Italian musician, composer, poet and Modular Art theorist.

Biography

Stefano Vagnini was born in Fano, Italy.
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.
Organ masterclass with: Monserrat Torrent, Michael Radulescu, Liuwe Tamminga, André Isoir, Sarah L. Martin.
Vagnini has taught organ and composition at the Conservatories of Verona and L'Aquila.
From 1986 to 2013 he has been Art Director of the International Organ Festival at Santa Maria Nuova in Fano, Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists performed, including Liuwe Tamminga, Michael Radulescu, Arturo Sacchetti, Gaston Litaize and Odile Pierre.
In 1997 he starts developing a new composing methodology, specifically applied to music, called ModulArt, which is today his main field of research.
Since 2003, together with soprano Giorgia Ragni, he forms 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, U.S.A, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, China, Spain England, Scotland, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Holland, South Korea, Japan, France.
Vagnini has conducted the Slave Song gospel choir and the Mezio Agostini opera choir in Fano, Italy.

Compositions and performances

Ballet

Theater
Video
Organ solo
Organ and tape
Orchestra
AiDADUO Style is a combination of classical music incorporating literature, cinema and fine arts mixed with a constant innovative, experimental and ironic research.
AiDADUO Performance-shows
Piano solo
in a new composing methodology theorized and applied to music by Vagnini. The modular composition system extends its procedure to compositions licensed by the musician as completed works of art. To these compositions, new modules can be overlapped. 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". 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 ModulArt in the realm of painting.
ModulArt Projects
ModulArt Performances