Marino Formenti

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Marino Formenti (* 1965 in Milan , Italy ) is a Vienna- based pianist , conductor and performer.

biography

Marino Formenti was born in Merate, a city near Milan. After studying piano, composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, he studied piano with Oleg Maisenberg and conducting with Uroš Lajovic at the Vienna University of Music . He has lived in Vienna since 1990.

Formenti was a member of the Musikensemble Klangforum Wien from 1994 to 2002 . His final breakthrough as a pianist came in 2000 with his own recital cycle in the LACMA -Monday Evening Concerts. This was followed by invitations as Artist in Residence at Lincoln Center New York, Wigmore Hall in London, at the Kunstfest Weimar , or at the Beethovenfest in Bonn.

As a soloist, he regularly plays at the Salzburg Festival , the Lucerne Festival , the Edinburgh Festival , the Berlin Festival and Wien Modern as well as at the Lincoln Center , the Hamburg Philharmonie , the Wiener Musikverein , the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

He played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Munich Philharmonic, the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchester National de Radio France, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ; He performed with conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Harding, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Eötvös.

As a conductor he has performed in the Teatro alla Scala , the Salle Pleyel , the Ravenna Festival, the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Salzburg Biennale and the Berlin Konzerthaus . He has worked with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann , György Kurtág , Salvatore Sciarrino , Olga Neuwirth , Beat Furrer , Friedrich Cerha and Bernhard Lang .

Performance and art

Marino Formenti also became known for his performances, which question the traditional form of a classical concert or which can be found in the field of conceptual art .

In 2010 nowhere was premiered in the first, eight-day version at the Steirischer Herbst : Formenti played, slept and ate during this performance, which took place for up to 4 weeks in a public space that was always accessible to the audience. Since then, Marino Formentis nowhere has taken place in Berlin, Basel, Oslo, Bologna, Bregenz, Brussels, Montpellier, Buenos Aires and New York.

One to One premiered at Art Basel in 2013 in a room furnished by Stephen Prina . Formenti also calls the performances “for and with one person” lasting between 45 minutes and now 24 hours, studies of communication and musicianship . In newer versions, guests are also invited to sing or make music.

In the film Schubert und Ich (Prisma Film, 2014) Formenti explored the question of what the relationship between musicality and professionalism is all about by developing songs by Franz Schubert with five lay people. Marino Formenti also became known for his participatory projects. In Time to Gather , premiered at the MärzMusik 2016 festival in Berlin, he let the audience decide what he plays or play with him. In Open House , presented for the Hamburg Philharmonic Music Festival in 2016, he played with everyone who came over for 15 days in the same location set up for this purpose.

On October 26, 2016 Formenti performed as a soloist on the Austrian National Day in the Austrian Parliament.

Awards

  • 2009: Belmont Prize from the Munich Forberg Schneider Foundation
  • 2010: Amadeus d 'Oro, Diapason d'Or (for the double CD "Kurtag's Ghosts" )
  • 2013: Diapason d'Or (for the CD "Notturni" )
  • 2014: "The 10 Best Recordings of the New Yorker" (for the double CD "Liszt Inspections" )
  • 2015: "The 10 Best Concerts of the New York Times" (for the live performance "Liszt Inspections" )
  • 2015: Diapason d'Or (for the double CD "Liszt Inspections" )
  • 2015: Austrian Film Award (for the film "Schubert and I") (nomination)

Discography

  • 2003: Face de la Chaleur (music by Beat Furrer ) - Kairos
  • 2003: Movements (music by JM Staud) - Kairos
  • 2003: Nothing is real (concept CD) - col legno
  • 2003: Helmut Lachenmann Piano Music - col legno
  • 2007: Apeiron (music by JM Staud) - Kairos
  • 2009: Kurtag's ghost (concept CD) - Kairos
  • 2011: Night studies (music by Formenti for Florian Pumhösl's film Expressive Rhythm ) - col legno
  • 2013: Notturni (concept CD; live recording from the Festival Wien Modern 2012)
  • 2013: Liszt inspections (concept CD) - Kairos
  • 2014: Der Bilderfresser (music by Fabio Nieder) - Winter and Winter
  • 2014: Almost Pure (as conductor; MDI Ensemble, music by Marco Momi) - Stradivarius
  • 2014: Prisme / Incidences (music by Michael Jarrell ; with Emmanuel Pahud , Paul Meyer and others) - Aeon
  • 2017: ..mais les images restent ... (music by Michael Jarrell) - Aeaon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marino Formenti: Touching play in extravagant concert projects on the website of the Wiener Konzerthaus , accessed on June 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Marino Formenti on the pages of Col legno , accessed on June 18, 2016
  3. ↑ What we do in music is ridiculous on the pages of music austria , accessed on June 18, 2016
  4. ^ History on the website of the Klangforum Wien , accessed on August 16, 2016
  5. ↑ Marino Formenti on the Kairos website , accessed June 18, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Marino Formenti on the website of the Berliner Festspiele, accessed on June 18, 2016
  7. ↑ a b Marino Formenti: One to One ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the steirischer herbst website, accessed on June 18, 2016
  8. ↑ Performance Marino Formenti berlinfestspiele.de, accessed on 30 December 2019
personal data
SURNAME Formenti, Marino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan