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Steve Vacchi
(541) 346-3748
vacchi@uoregon.edu
Steve Vacchi is associate professor at the University of Oregon,
where he teaches bassoon and chamber music. His teachers have included
C. Robert Reinert, Rebecca Eldredge, Matthew Ruggiero, K. David
Van Hoesen, Stephen Maxym, Frank Morelli, and William Ludwig. He
holds degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music (B.M.
with high distinction/Performer’s Certificate), The Hartt
School (M.M.), and Louisiana State University (D.M.A.), where he
held a Board of Regents Fellowship. His dissertation is a “how-to”
for bassoonists on fluttertongue and singing while playing; it
focuses on five solo works requiring both techniques.
A member of Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi, he was formerly
a faculty member at Wichita State University (KS) and the Brevard
Music Center (NC). He has presented masterclasses at high schools,
conservatories, and universities throughout the United States and
China.
Vacchi’s recording credits include Argo, BMG Classics, Centaur,
NMC (Israel), North Pacific, Sony Classical, Edward Hines Music,
Equilibrium, and Imagine Music. He has performed in 23 countries
throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the
Caribbean. In the U.S., Vacchi has performed with The Florida Orchestra,
Santa Fe ProMusica, the Rhode Island, Tulsa, and Rochester Philharmonics,
and the New World, Baton Rouge, Colorado, Honolulu, Kansas City,
New Haven, and Wichita Symphony Orchestras. He has performed in
backup groups for such diverse artists as Michael Brecker, Victor
Borge, Garrison Keillor, Luciano Pavarotti, Tony Bennett, The Moody
Blues, and Peter Schickele. He has been a featured soloist in works
by Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi, Lindpaintner, Jurriaan Andriessen, Michael
Daugherty, Walter Hartley, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Walter Mays, and
Peter Hope.
An advocate of new music, Vacchi has performed more than 220 recently-composed
works, including 50 premieres. As a member of Trio 335 (oboe, bassoon,
and classical accordion), he performed by invitation at recent
conferences of the International Double Reed Society in Argentina
and Canada, as well as recital appearances in the U.S. and Germany.
Vacchi maintains interests in instrument collecting and early music,
performing on dulzian, rackett, Baroque, Classical, and French
bassoons. Since coming to Oregon in 2000, he has performed with
the Eugene and Oregon Symphony Orchestras, Portland and Salem Chamber
Orchestras, Eugene Opera, Eugene Ballet, Oregon Festival of American
Music, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Oregon Mozart Players, and the Cascade,
Cabrillo, and Oregon Bach Festivals. Vacchi’s biography is
included in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.
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