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Welcome to Musica Vesuviana


A place where young American vocalist and instrumentalists can make music and immerse themselves in Italy's rich artistic culture.
 

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Musica Vesuviana
Summer Music Festival
A musical and cultural exchange between Italian and American students
 
 

Musica Vesuviana offers an international summer music program for student instrumentalists and vocalists of high school age.  The camp takes place at the Fondazione Passarelli. Musica Vesuviana’s curriculum includes an eclectic mix of American and Italian music and musical styles, taught by American and native master teachers.  All students will be involved in performances at the institute as well as in the surrounding communities, where they will be able to share their music as well immerse themselves in the rich and varied artistic culture that Italy has to offer.

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Faculty


 
Tino D'Agostino (director) is the founder and director of Musica Vesuviana. Trained both in Italy and the US, Mr. D'Agostino brings a wealth of knowledge in traditional music as well as modern Jazz and Pop. As instrumental director at Arlington (MA) High School his ensembles have performed at All-State Conferences and tours of Italy. A noted clinician, he has presented workshops for music educators at Massachussets Music Educators Conferences and at Drum Festival, Montreal, CanadaBass. He has performed with Andrea Bocelli, Ivan Cattaneo in Italy and Mike Stern and Wayne Krantz in the US. He has published articles on Bass Guitar Magazine and Zon Guitars Magazine. 
 

Cheryl Christo (Instructor) is Director of Choral Activities at Arlington (MA) public schools. Her award-winning groups have appeared at All-State Conferences, as well as on international concert tours. She is well-versed in many different styles of music from Madrigals to Jazz. In addition to her choral-directing duties, Ms. Christo has been pianist and music co-director for many Broadway musicals. In 2004 she was a Massachusetts Teacher of the Year finalist

 
 
Edoardo Pepe (director / ensemble instructor) lives in Salerno (Italy). composer,Jazz pianist, music teacher,arranger and piano tuner. He works as composer of sound tracks for films and he realizes musical multimedia applications in courses of music for secondary school. As arranger writes for "camera" formations, among the works, a history of the "Italian song" performed by the classical quartet of the pianist M° Tullio Forlenza.
 
  Anita Pesce (director) lives in Naples, Italy. A pianist, music teacher, writer and composer, she is the author of many music books such as "Musica? Musica!", "L'Albero Dei Suoni", "Il Metro Musichevole", "Letteratura Fonografica".  
 
Pasquale Tassone (director/Instructor) studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, has an honors diploma from the Chigiana Academy in Senia, Italy and PhD from Brandeis University. Mr. Tassone is a founding member of the LUMEN Contemporary Music Ensemble, a group of composers dedicated to the performance of new music in the Boston area. In June 2008, he retired as Fine Arts Director in the Arlington (MA) Public Schools. 

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