Ernesto Molinari

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Ernesto Molinari (* 1956 in Lugano ) is a Swiss clarinetist and composer .

Act

Molinari studied clarinet in Basel and bass clarinet at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Harry Sparnaay . As a soloist and chamber musician, Molinari has appeared at festivals around the world such as the Festival d'automne à Paris , the Salzburg Festival , the Lucerne Festival , the Huddersfield Festival, the Bruckner Festival Linz and the Witten Days for New Chamber Music .

Monlinari was clarinetist at the Klangforum Wien from 1994 to 2005 . He developed into a specialist in classical, romantic and contemporary chamber music . Numerous compositions were written especially for him and premiered by him, for example by Michael Jarrell , Olga Neuwirth , Isabel Mundry , Johannes Maria Staud or Michael Pelzel .

In addition, Molinari also deals with jazz and improvisation music . For example, he presented the album Ntrix (2002) with the electronics artists Uli Fussenegger and Bernhard Lang and was involved in diphtongs by Christian Mühlbacher and Werner Dafeldecker . He plays in a trio with Martin Siewert and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong .

Molinari is considered to be an outstanding and versatile soloist on all instruments in the clarinet family. He was also involved in the ContrabassClarinetExtended project, in which a sensory-dynamic innovation for deep wind instruments was researched, with which even micro-intervals in the lower register can be played cleanly; Molinari also tested the resulting prototype .

For more than 20 years, Molinari has been teaching at the Bern University of the Arts as a professor for clarinet and bass clarinet, chamber music, contemporary music and improvisation. Since 2000 Molinari has also been teaching at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. He also taught at the Impuls Ensemble and Composers Academy for contemporary music in Graz.

With Philippe Racine he wrote the composition Lusuolo for flute & bass clarinet (1985). In 2017 he received one of the music prizes of the Canton of Bern.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c World premiere of the new double bass clarinet CLEX
  2. ↑ Results poster
  3. ↑ Ernesto Molinari: «You have to have crazy ideas!» (SRF)
  4. ↑ Music prizes from the Canton of Bern for Meret Lüthi and Ernesto Molinari
personal data
SURNAME Molinari, Ernesto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss clarinetist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano