Fabio Vacchi studied with Giacomo Manzoni and Franco Donatoni; he attended courses at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. He won the Koussewitzky Prize in Composition (1974), and the first prize at the Gaudeamus Competition in Holland (1976). He wrote some operas (Girotondo, 1982, to a libretto adapted from Schnitzler's Reigen; La Station ...