Andrea Molino

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Andrea Molino (* 1964 in Turin ) is an Italian composer and conductor .

Live and act

Andrea Molino studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich . As musical director of the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg 1996–2007 he conducted a. a. In 1997 the world premiere of Alessandro Melchiorre's Unreported inbound Palermo and in 2000 the premiere of a staged version of Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities . His projects the smiling carcass (1999) on the subject of "advertising" and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001) on the death penalty, were created in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani . The death penalty project was performed in Basel and Nuremberg by the Phoenix Ensemble Basel and in New York and Milan by the Klangforum Wien .

From 2000 to 2006 Molino was artistic director of “Fabrica Musica”, the musical department of the Italian research center for communication “Fabrica”. There he worked with musicians such as Heiner Goebbels, David Moss , Koichi Makigami and Phil Minton . His own projects were Voices , premiered in October 2000 at the RomaEuropa Festival, for which he worked with previously unpublished video material by Godfrey Reggio , and, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the project Drops On A Hot Stone , which premiered in December 2001 at the Capitol in Rome has been. The world premiere of Credo , a multimedia music theater work on ethnic and religious conflicts, took place in April 2004 at the Karlsruhe State Theater . The work was then performed in Rome ( Stazione Termini ) with the orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on the occasion of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners. In July 2005, it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane . His multimedia music theater project Winners , also developed with Fabrica , premiered on July 22nd, 2006 at the Brisbane Festival, with himself as conductor; the European premiere took place in Paris in October 2006 in the Grande Salle of the Center Pompidou .

For the 2007/2008 season, Molino was an "Invited Professor and Artist" at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, the French art center in Lille ; at the “Panorama” festival there in June 2008, he presented his multimedia project un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être .

In October 2009 he took over the artistic direction of the World Venice Forum, in which he designed the festival “The Garden Of Forking Paths”. At the final concert in the Basilica di Frari he conducted the Orchestra della Fenice in his multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames , for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster in India. The world premiere of Three Mile Island , about the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, took place in 2012 at the ZKM Karlsruhe with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Klangforum Wien ; the Italian premiere followed at the Teatro India in Rome. The project received the Music Theater Now Award 2012.

His music theater project - qui non c'è perché - ( - there is no why - , a quote from Is that a person? By Primo Levi ) premiered in April 2014 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Further performances followed in May 2015 in deSingel in Antwerp for Vlaamse Opera ( Opera XXI Festival ).

I want the things , for David Moss (musician) , was shown at the Abbey Theater in Dublin in 2020 as part of the Dear Ireland project .

As a conductor, he conducted Wozzeck by Alban Berg with directed by William Kentridge and Shostakovich's The Nose , directed by Barrie Kosky for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House , the premiere of Cathy Marston's The Cellist at the Royal Opera House in London, Szymanowski's King Roger at the Kungliga Operan in Stockholm, a Mahler / Messiaen / Strauss program at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne with Thomas Hampson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Carmen at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. For Opera Australia he had a. a. Kròl Roger , directed by Kasper Holten (Green Room Award 2018), Bizet's Carmen , Puccini's Tosca and La Bohème (the latter as the 2015 Silverster Gala at the Sydney Opera House ), Verdi's Macbeth and Ein Maskenball (directed by Àlex Ollé - La Fura dels Baus ), and Rossini's The Barber of Seville conducts. At the Teatro La Fenice he opened the Venice Music Biennale in 2005 and conducted the world premieres of the operas Signor Goldoni by Luca Mosca (2007) and Il Killer di Parole by Claudio Ambrosini (2010). He opened the 2010 concert season at the Teatro La Fenice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna's Requiem .

Molino has also conducted the Brussels Philharmonic , the Bochumer Symphony , the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe , the Dresden Symphony (among others with the project aghet , dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide), the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival .

Works (selection)

  • I want the things (2020), music video for solo voice with drums (for David Moss)
  • The Sense of the Place - Dublin (2019), music video series for solo bass clarinet
  • - there is no why here - (2014), multimedia music theater for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
  • Three Mile Island (2012), multimedia scenic concert for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
  • Open, Air (2012), for voices, instrumental soloists and orchestra in an open space
  • Of Flowers And Flames (2009), multimedia concert for solo sarangi (video), large orchestra and live video for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, India
  • un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être (2007–2008), multimedia scenic concert for a vocalist, bass horn, drums, an actress, live electronics and live video
  • Winners (2005–06), multimedia music action for 2 saxophones, 7 solo percussionists, large orchestra, live electronics and live video
  • Credo (2003-04), multimedia music theater for vocal and instrumental soloists, actors, large orchestra, live electronics, live video and live satellite connections
  • Drops On A Hot Stone (2001) for instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
  • Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2000–2001) for a vocalist, saxophone solo, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
  • Voices (2000) for a vocalist, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
  • the smiling carcass (1998–99) for a vocalist, 2 actors, madrigal ensemble, saxophone solo, ensemble and live electronics
  • Earth and Heart Dances (1997) for 5 percussionists and live electronics
  • Gesti per un tempo di passione (1996) for 14 instruments

CDs and DVDs (selection)

  • Agony and Ecstasy (Emma Matthews, soprano; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Andrea Molino; ABC Classics, 2016)
  • The Kiss (Nicole Car, soprano; Opera Australia Orchestra, conductor: Andrea Molino; ABC Classics, 2015)
  • Marc Sinan: Hasretim (DVD of the world premiere, Dresdner Sinfoniker, conductor: Andrea Molino; ECM, Munich, 2013)
  • Credo (DVD of the world premiere, conductor: Andrea Molino; Naïve, Paris, 2006)
  • Luca Mosca: Signor Goldoni (DVD of the world premiere production at Teatro La Fenice, Venice; DVD Dynamic 33600, 2008)
  • the smiling carcass (live recording of the Pocket Opera Company production in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk, conductor: Andrea Molino; CD Stradivarius STR 33558, 1999)
  • Bruno Maderna: Serenata n.2, Concerto per 2 pianoforti (A. Orvieto, M. Rapetti, Pf .; Ex Novo Ensemble, Venice; Demoé Percussion Ensemble, Aosta, conductor: Andrea Molino; CD Stradivarius STR 33536, 1999)
  • Earth and Heart Dances (Demoé Percussion Ensemble, Aosta; CD Stradivarius STR 33499, 1998)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/credo
  2. ↑ http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/winners
personal data
SURNAME Molino, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Italy