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Fausto Tuscano
Fausto Tuscano is a composer, musician and educator whose work explores the relationship between music, language and the human voice. He has taught Italian at the Vocal Studies Department at the Mozarteum since 1997, and at the Mozarteum Summer Academy since 2015. Alongside his long-standing teaching activity, he is closely associated with the Società Dante Alighieri Salzburg.
Fausto Tuscano began his musical education in Assisi as a choirboy at the Basilica of San Francesco. He continued his studies at the conservatories F. Morlacchi in Perugia and L. Cherubini in Florence, where he obtained diplomas in flute performance and composition. Parallel to this, he completed studies in literature and music history. From 1997 to 2005, he studied composition and music theory at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Reinhard Febel. He has also drawn important artistic inspiration from exchanges with composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino, Gilbert Amy, Bogusław Schaeffer and Beat Furrer.
He has received prizes at national and international competitions, including the Franco Evangelisti Prize (Nuova Consonanza, 1999) and the 3rd Johann Joseph Fux Opera Composition Competition (2003). In 2007, he was nominated for the Busoni Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded composition grants by both the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture and the Salzburg state government.
From 1988 to 1997, he worked on the catalogue of music manuscripts in the archives of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. He is co-founder of Klang21 and served as artistic director of the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival from 2005 to 2010. As a lecturer, he has participated in international symposia and given seminars and courses on his work at various universities.
Fausto Tuscano has been active as a pedagogue since 1997, teaching Italian at the Mozarteum University Voice Department. He has been a board member of the Società Dante Alighieri Salzburg since 2001 and co-editor of its cultural programme since 2011. Since 2015, he has taught the Italian course at the Mozarteum Summer Academy. His teaching and research focus on the evolution of the human voice, the musicality of poetic language, the rhythm and metre of Italian verse, and the role of music and singing in language acquisition.