Vincenzo Piaggesi graduated in Composition, Choral Music and Choral Conducting, Band Instrumentation and Trombone.

He began his musical career performing as a pianist in popular music ensembles and as a trombonist in various chamber groups. He subsequently devoted himself to choral conducting, earning considerable acclaim from both critics and audiences.

From 1986 to 1991 he served as conductor of the “Mezio Agostini” Opera Chorus of Fano, with which he performed extensively in Italy and abroad. During the opera seasons of the city of Fano, he conducted the chorus in productions including:

• Opera season 1989: Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi, La figlia del Reggimento by G. Donizetti and Tosca by G. Puccini;
• Opera season 1990: Cavalleria rusticana by P. Mascagni, Faust by Charles Gounod and Nabucco by G. Verdi;
• Opera season 1991: La Bohème by G. Puccini, L’elisir d’amore by G. Donizetti and Macbeth by G. Verdi.

He has produced numerous recordings with instrumental and choral ensembles for the regional headquarters of the RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana, broadcast as part of various radio and television programmes.

In 1999 he founded the Joplin Brass Orchestra, an innovative ensemble consisting of brass instruments, percussion and electronic instruments, for which he arranged music from the film soundtrack repertoire. Following numerous performances throughout the region, the ensemble was featured at the opening concerts of the 1999 and 2002 editions of the Fano International Film Festival, presenting the programmes Echoes of Sounds from the Cinema (11^TH edition of the Fano Film Festival) and Fireworks (14^th edition of the FanoInternationalFilmFestival), both enthusiastically received by audiences and critics.

In 2001 he conducted the William Walton Ensemble in a series of concerts for various concert societies, performing both works originally written by Walton and specially prepared transcriptions.

Since 2005, he has frequently been appointed by the Rossini Conservatoire, where he serves as Professor of Ensemble Music for Wind Instruments, to conduct the Conservatoire Wind Orchestra in concerts held for Republic Day celebrations and other national commemorations at the Government Palace of Pesaro, seat of the Prefecture.

For these occasions, he has devised thematic programmes including:

• 2 June 2005 – The Music of Memory – Songs that Made Italy
• 2 June 2006 – Brothers of Italy, Brothers of Europe
• 2 June 2007 – The Italian Flag
• 2 June 2008 –  Harmonies for Peace
• 2 June 2009 –  Steps
• 2 June 2010 – Where Splendid Trumpets Resound
• 2 June 2011Italy 150
• 24 May 2018 –  In Memory of Pesaro’s Fallen
• 2 June 2018 –  Homage to Riz Ortolani
• 2 June 2024 –  Sounds of Hope

For the publishing house Unaluna, he composed the music for the documentary films:

• Following the Traces of Infinity for Walter Valentini (2001)
• Cecco Bonanotte in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (2001)
• Before the Sea for Carlo Cecchi (2003)
• Indelible Traces for the City of Jesi (2003)

all directed by Alessandro Sartori.

Throughout his career, he has composed numerous original works, arrangements and educational pieces for symphony orchestras, string orchestras, choirs, wind orchestras, brass ensembles and a wide variety of chamber ensembles, including decets, nonets, septets, sextets, woodwind and brass quintets, quartets and trios. More recently, he has devoted particular attention to transcriptions of works by Gioachino Rossini, which he performs with the wind ensemble I Giovani Rossiniani.

Since 1995, following success in the national competition for conservatoire teaching positions, he has served as Professor of Ensemble Music for Wind Instruments, first at the F. Cilea Conservatoire and currently at the Rossini Conservatoire.