LUCA VAGO: Carl Orff Competition 2018 Evanescence

LUCA VAGO LUCA VAGO was born 1971 and lives near Milan (Italy).
In 1996 he got a diploma in piano at the Conservatory G.B. Nicolini of Piacenza and the following year he took a degree in Law at the State University of Milan.
In November 2004 he graduated in Composition with Alessandro Solbiati, obtaining 110/110, at the Conservatory G. Verdi of Milan, and in the October 2007 he took the degree of second level (specialization) in Composition at the Conservatory of Milan again with Alessandro Solbiati and obtained 110/110.
He took part to masterclasses and courses with internationally acclaimed composers such as Claudio Ambrosini, Luis De Pablo, Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Helmut Lachenmann, Giacomo Manzoni, Marco Stroppa, Ivan Fedele, Frédéric Durieux, Stefano Gervasoni.

In December 2005 his composition “Shining Darkness” for chamber orchestra won the first prize in the yearly composition contest of the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” of Milan and was performed by the Philarmonic Orchestra of conservatorio in the season 2006.
In January 2006, he was selected to represent Italy, getting the commision for a composition for chamber Ensemble that was performed during the summer accademy Jeunesse Moderne 2006, organized by the Conservatoire of Lyon.
In may 2007 he was among the finalists of the composition award “Magnificent brick structures in notes and sounds” organized by the Landesmusikrat Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Germany) and among the finalists of the Queen Elizabeth composition competition in Brussels (Belgium).

In the summer of 2007 he won the first prize of the composition award of the Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), section orchestration, with his “Sei Lieder per voce e orchestra” (from Franz Schubert) and in the autumn of the same year he got a mention in the “Franco Evangelisti” composition award 2007 organized by the musical association Nuova Consonanza of Rome (Italy), with his songs cycle “Sette canzoni liberamente tratte da Folk songs lituane” .
He was one of the finalists in the competition Ensemblia 2009 in Monchengladbach (Germany) with the string quartet Karštas Sniegas and in the summer of the same year his composition Cantus Eburneus (trhee pieces for mixed choir and marimba) got a mention in the 36th Guido D’Arezzo composition competition (Italy).

In the May of 2011 he won the first prize at the Franz Liszt composition competition in Weimar with Aušrine for piano and orchestra. The composition has been performed during the XII Weimarer Früjahrstage für zeitgenössische music.
He has been among the finalists of 2012 So.Ro.Dha composition competition in Antwerpen (Belgium) with Sonetto onirico, for solo violin.
In 2013 he has received another mention in the “Franco Evangelisti” competition with “La selva de los relojes” five poems by Federico Garcia Lorca for mezzosoprano, percussion and electronic tape, while his composition “Languisce al fin”, for five instruments, based on the homonym madrigal of Gesulado da Venosa, got the third price in the competition Sincronie for Gesualdo in Milan.

In 2014 he has won the First Prize at the III Uuno Klami International Composition Competition in Kotka (Finland) with his composition “Suite de los Espejos” eight poems by Federico Garcia Lorca for soprano and orchestra and the first prize of the first composition competition “Firenze per le Culture di Pace” with the work “”Promise me” for female voice and seven instruments.
In 2016 he has won the 2nd price at the II Vittorio Fellegara Composition Competition in Bergamo (Italy) with his composition “Tre Sonetti da Shakespeare”, for soprano and piano and the first price in the So.Ro.Dha composition competition in Antwerpen (Belgium) with Dredd for string quartet.

In 2017 he is among the finalist of the Appassionato Ensemble competition with the composition Crying Spirits for violin and piano and he reach also the final in the Edvard Grieg composition competition in Oslo.
His works has been performed in important festivals like Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix En Provence, Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Europäische Akademie für musik di Montepulciano – Palazzo Ricci, Playit!, Milano Musica and has had between their performers famous artists like Gianandrea Noseda, Barbara Frittoli, Irvine Arditti, Ex Novo Ensemble, Fontana Mix Ensemble, Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto, Asasello Quartet, Quatuor Tana, Ensemble Risognanze, Kymi Sinfonietta, Tito Ceccherini, Mdi Ensemble, Alfonso Alberti, Mario Ancillotti, Piia Komsi, Eugene Tzigane, Marko Ylonen.
His works has been published by Rai Trade Musical Edition, Stradivarius and Sconfinarte.
He works as a lawyer in the Tribunal of Lecco (Italy).