The June 6, 2026 The Kozel Overhead crane of Milan hosts the fourth edition of OPS – Official Partythe student festival organized by SchoolZoo and dedicated to children aged 14 to 21. Among the names announced as Guest Artist is Thomas Vulpioa young singer-songwriter already seen on stage X Factor 2025.
The event is one of the largest student gatherings in Italy and Vulpio he will be among the guests who will bring their own live music. For the occasion, the singer-songwriter will perform five songs from his production, in a live performance designed to intercept the young audience who are the direct recipients of his musical world.
Who is Thomas Vulpio: the path before OPS Festival
Raised among international pop, cinema, musicals and sound experimentation, Thomas Vulpio he builds his own artistic path with a precise direction: less all-digital production, more real instruments. In the studio he works together with his producer in an artisanal way, favoring acoustic instruments, textures and live recordings.
The guitar and piano enter the tracks organically, sometimes in the foreground, sometimes as supporting layers beneath the electronic lines. It is an approach that allows you to build arrangements where the performer's hand remains perceptible even in the most produced passages.
The influences of Thomas Vulpio: from Billie Eilish to Bluvertigo
Among the musical references that Vulpio quotes are often there Billie Eilishan artist who has them “unlocked something inside” on a creative level, and the visionary aesthetic of Lady Gaga. Added to these are the international pop of the early 2010s, the disco-electronic matrix of George Moroder with its pulsating sequences, and the dark synth-pop lesson of the Depeche Mode.
On the Italian side the reference is ai Bluvertigo and their search for alternative sounds and pop imagery, within a songwriting style that does not give up electronics.
The texts: notes taken between one station and another
The music of Thomas Vulpio moves within a hybrid territory, difficult to fit into just one genre. His lyrics, his notes say, were born as thoughts taken on the subway, before and after school.
It is the urgency to express reflections, emotions and doubts that do not always find space on social media, and which the singer-songwriter prefers to entrust to the voice of a song.
A choice that makes him a guest in line with the public of OPS – Official Party: a generation that lives online but still seeks music as a way to say something about itself.
