SHORT BIO
Francesco Fasciolo, also known as Franco Lapache, is an Italian musician, audio engineer, and sound artist based in Berlin. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Guitar from the Conservatory of Brescia, and since 2024 he has been pursuing a Master’s degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
His practice focuses on the exploration of the analog domain and obsolete media, the archiving and reactivation of endangered sonic sources, and the relationship between sound and space. These interests lead him to work with outdated devices and to experiment with the physical and acoustic limits of sound manipulation.
He has released music and performed internationally with various projects. He is one of the co-founders of Big Tree Studio, a recording studio based in Brescia. He is currently active with the Italian band Diorama Group, with whom he records, perform and tours.
LONG BIO
Francesco Fasciolo, also known as Franco Lapache, is an Italian musician, audio engineer, and sound artist based in Berlin.
As a child, he began taking singing lessons and later continued his musical training by studying guitar. He first took private lessons with teachers such as Enrico Fona and Luciano Poli, then went on to attend the pre-academic courses at Siena Jazz, studying with Giovanni Benvenuti, Alessandro Giachero, and Luca Necciari. At the same time, he began performing with various ensembles in venues across the province of Brescia.
He is the co-founder—together with Daniele Bossoni, Francesco Regazzoli, and Gioele Dusina—of the gypsy-manouche quartet Hot Club of Brixia, with which he performed between 50 and 70 concerts across Italy.
In 2019, he began the undergraduate Jazz Guitar program at the “L. Marenzio” Conservatory of Brescia, where he studied with Corrado Guarino, Simone Guiducci, Riccardo Bianchi, Michele Polga, Boris Savoldelli, Francesco Villa, and Giovanni Falzone.
During his Conservatory years, he co-founded the seven-piece ensemble Projep7a with fellow students and friends Riccardo Cola, Giorgio Dalla Pellegrina, Riccardo Fulgheri, Giovanni Bergamaschi, Federico Recenti, and Francesco Guarino. With Projep7a, he recorded the album Supercluster, independently released in 2021 along with two video clips, followed by a tour throughout the province of Brescia. In 2022, the group released an independent double single titled Il posto giusto, later followed by additional live performances.
Also during this period, together with Andrea Bellettati and Simone Apostoli, he founded Big Tree Studio, a recording and music production studio that became a key reference point in the Brescia area, where he worked as a sound engineer and musician until 2023.
From 2021 to 2022, he was an exchange student at the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg (DK), where he studied, performed, and attended workshops with internationally renowned musicians such as Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Lars Zander, Uffe Steen, Jens Christian Kwella, Eyal Lovett, Soren Muller, and Jesper Sieldmaan.
During his time in Denmark, he participated in masterclasses with acclaimed artists including Diego Piñera, Gauthier Toux, Lars Zander, Gilad Hekselman, Laura Misch, Yogev Shetrit, Ganna Gryniva, and Michael Vestbo.
In November 2021, he launched his solo project “Franco Lapache”, for which he recorded two singles at Big Tree Studio in January 2022. The work was released in spring 2022. With this project, he was also invited to perform at the “Aalborg for Ukraine” event and at the RAMA Festival 2022.
In 2022, he composed the music for the dance performance Manpurse, conceived and performed by Danish dancer Kasper Jakobsen.
After returning to Italy in 2022, he continued developing the Franco Lapache project, beginning collaborations with Alessandro Pedretti, Francesco Tavoldini, and Milena Berta.
He recorded his first EP, Abroad, released in 2023, produced by Alessandro Pedretti and recorded between Petrol Station and Big Tree Studio. Following the release, the trio performed 22 concerts across Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.
From 2022 to 2024, he taught modern guitar at the G.P. Maggini music school in Botticino.
Since 2022, he has been an active member of the musical ensemble Diorama Group (formerly “Amarcord e Dintorni”), alongside Giacomo Baronchelli, Giovanni Venturini, and Michele Pasotti. The group released its debut LP Sipario in spring 2025 and has performed in several major Italian contexts, including Vicenza Jazz, Echo Festival, M1-M3, Teatro Idra, Locomotiv in Bologna (finalists for “Blender”), Corte dei Miracoli, and the Festa di Radio Onda d’Urto.
In 2025, the group deepened its sonic research during artistic residencies in Piazzole (province of Brescia) and at the Castalia Foundation in Torri, Umbria.
In 2024, he began collaborating with director and actor Makria Miden, composing the music and sound design for the theatre production Oreste, o la nausea della vita, presented in Milan and Brescia in 2025.
In 2024, he relocated to Berlin and began the Master’s program in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Between 2024 and 2025, he performed in Berlin at venues such as Arkaoda for the “Signal2Noise” event and at Zwitschermaschine for the “Music for Dream Machines” series.
In March 2025, he was awarded the Culture Moves Europe grant, a European program supporting artists’ mobility within the EU. This allowed him to deepen his work on field recording and sound performance during a two-week residency at “Avista Vulcao” on the island of Faial in the Azores. The project concluded with the performance Circum Sonoro.
In June 2025, he was selected for the event “Reclaiming our Bodies”, curated by Marlene Schomberg, where he presented the sound installation Al Passo, held at Hosek Contemporary in Mitte, Berlin.
Since September 2025, he has been part of the tech team of the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
In October 2025, his piece E canterà—a reinterpretation on cassette tape of Italian alpine choral songs—was selected for the radio program Como en Casa, curated by Fatiga Collective and broadcast on Radio Relativa.
Between September and November 2025, he composed the music for the theatre production Decalogo, written and directed by Emma Francesca Savoldi and Sara Cerati, and produced by the Teatro Stabile di Torino. The show, which includes live sound performance, premiered in late November 2025 at the Fonderie Limone in Turin.