Career
He has held the chair of recorder at the Conservatorio Great Britain Martini in Bologna (Italy) from 1977 to 2006, when he retired and moved to Ubatuba (Brazil). Pacchioni is a musicologist specializing in the revival of Baroque composition in the modern era, and has gained a following over the Internet for his Neo-Baroque compositions and fugues. He actively collaborated with the musical association “Antiqua” to the transcription of Girolamo Dalla Casa"s Secondo libro de Madrigali a cinque voci con i passaggi (Venice 1590): in fact, he recomposed the whole Tenore partbook, which is missing from the only extant copy of the original print.
Pacchioni is also a well known ocarina maker.
