Faculty
Mag.art.
Fausto Tuscano
Fausto Tuscano has been a teacher since 1997, a board member since 2001 and co-editor of the cultural program at the Società Dante Alighieri Salzburg since 2011. He has taught the Italian course at the Mozarteum Summer Academy since 2015, and the main areas of his research and teaching activity are the evolution of the human voice, the musical content of poetic language, rhythm and meter of Italian musical poetry, and music and singing in language teaching.
Fausto Tuscano began his music studies in Assisi as a boy singer in the chapel of the Basilica of S. Francesco d'Assisi. He continued his studies at the F. Morlacchi Perugia and L. Cherubini Firenze conservatories, where he obtained the concert diploma in flute and composition. Meanwhile, he also completed his studies in literature and music history. From 1997 to 2005 he studied composition and music theory at the Mozarteum University with Reinhard Febel. Over the years, he gained additional inspiration for his artistic work in conversations and private meetings with Salvatore Sciarrino, Gilbert Amy, Boghuslav Schaeffer and Beat Furrer. He has won prizes in national and international competitions, including the Franco Evangelisti Prize in Nuova Consonanza (1999) and the 3rd Johann Joseph Fux Opera Competition (2003). In 2007 he was nominated for the Busoni Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2011 he received the state grant for composition from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Art and Culture and the state grant for composition from the Salzburg state government. From 1988 to 1997 he worked on the register of music manuscripts in the archives of the basilica in Assisi. As a lecturer he took part in various symposiums and held seminars on his compositions and music courses at various universities. He is a co-founder of Klang21 and was artistic director of the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival from 2005-2010.