Fabio Costa (composer, conductor)

[6] As a Répétiteur in the faculty of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Costa coached and conducted opera-studio productions of "Postcard form Morocco“ (Dominick Argento) in 2018,[35] "Le Portrait de Manon“ (Massenet) in 2019,[36][37] "Hin und Zurück“ (Hindemith), "Schwergewicht…“ (Krenek) "Fürwahr“ and "Witwe von Ephesus“ (K. A. Hartmann) in 2020.

He continued to explore microtonality in just-intonation ("O Cravo Brigou com a Rosa" 2010 [9]) but also 31-ED2 (soundtrack to "Potsdam in Time-Lapse" 2015 [10]), a tuning system that allows for good approximation in higher harmonic limits and enharmonic modulation.

This research ensued in an ongoing collaboration [42][43] with the Huygens-Fokker Foundation starting in 2015 [44] at the Muziekgebow aan t'Ij[45] in Amsterdam with the composition and performance of "Aphoristic Madrigals" for SATB soli and Fokker-Organ [11] by the ensemble Vokalprojekt 31,[46] especially formed at this occasion.

[48] In this period Costa also started venturing into harmonic microtonal performance with the use of isomorphic or generalized keyboards in various tuning systems - such as unequal and equal divisions of the octave and just-intonation ("Improvisation" [13].

[19] After relocating to Germany, Costa took up faculty positions as a pianist in the vocal departments of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig (2016–2021) as well as the Berlin University of the Arts (2016–2019), also acting as a Répétiteur for opera productions such as "Kommilitonen" (Peter M. Davies), "Ende einer Zeit" and "Der Landartzt" (H.W.Henze), "La Verità in Cimento" (Vivaldi) in Leipzig[51] and in Berlin "La voix Humaine" (Poulenc), "Angelique" (Ibert), "L’heure Espagnole" (Ravel) and "Angels in America" (Peter Eötvös).

[52] In addition to private coaching, Costa has also been intensively active as a vocal accompanist with various partners and especially for the so-called Chanson or Kabarett-song, collaborating in particular with the notorious German Brecht specialist and interpret Gina Pietsch[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60],.