Andrea Molino

	Padua June 3, 2010 – Fondazione March COCA-COLA AT THE WHITE HOUSE or The Concept of Simultaneity and the Breasts of Janet Jackson Andrea Molino to speak in the series of lectures Cos'è il contemporaneo? In the frame of his role of Music Curator of the Fondazione Buziol Andrea Molino is invited for a lecture in the series Cos'è il contemporaneo? which aims to understand what „contemporary" means and to defend the concept. Molino describes the thesis of his lecture as follows: „Cathegories such as simultaneity (or contemporaneity...), temporal linearity, univocity of the concept of place and duration (that is, memory) not only form part of the everyday arsenal of the artist, the axioms from which the very idea of art making develops. They are also and more especially the pillars on which stand the semantic structures of all possible types of communication (interpersonal, social or technological); that is, the entire information exchange system within a community is transmitted: its culture. Closer inspection, however, shows how this construct of elements, on the face of it eminently consensual, is not as solid as it might appear... A journey from Walter Benjamin to Andy Warhol and back." Venue: Liceo Artistico Statale Amedeo Modigliani, Padua, June 3, 16.30-18.30 p.m.
	Zurich, May 10, 2010 - World Premiere Heiner Goebbels: Industry and Idleness A scenic concert with the Collegium Novum Zurich, directed by Heiner Goebbels and conducted by Andrea Molino Industry and Idleness is the title of the work from Heiner Goebbels which forms the core of the production conducted by Andrea Molino, played by Collegium Novum Zurich and directed by Heiner Goebbels. By separating and combining acoustic and optical effects, conventional concert rituals are dissolved and translated into a new type of performance. The concert hall turns out to be the place of an artistic experience in which the boundaries between reality and fiction, hearing and seeing, moving and still, performers and audience are continously changing. Industry and Idleness was developed in co-operation between the Collegium Novum Zurich and the Schauspielhaus Zurich. World Premiere: May 10, 2010, 8 pm; further performances: May 12 to 15 / 8 pm; venue: Zurich, Schiffbau / Halle more information
	DVD of the World Premiere now available Of Flowers And Flames Andrea Molino conducts his multimedia concert on dvd Of Flowers And Flames, a multimedia concert first presented in occasion of the World Venice Forum 2009 in the Basilica dei Frari in Venice in October 2009 was conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster (in December 1984 a cloud of toxic gas was released from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal). The project wishes to give voice and pay homage to the passion, courage and spirit of the people whose lives have been touched by the horror of this event. The live DVD of this performance with Andrea Molino conducting the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice is now available and can be ordered at the International Academy of Environmental Sciences (IAES) in Venice (segreteria@iaes.info). more information
	Now available on Andrea Molino's website Composer and Conductor Videos In the last years many of Andrea Molino's works as well as his performances as a conductor have been documented on video. A large choice of excerpts can now be found on his website: have a look for example on his own projects CREDO, WINNERS and Of Flowers and Flames or on Molino conducting Heiner Goebbels, Salvatore Sciarrino and other composers.
	Teatro La Fenice, Venice Molino conducts World Premiere of Maderna's Requiem Concert Season's Opening – November 19 and 20, 2009 Andrea Molino will conduct the World Premiere of Bruno Maderna's Requiem (1946) for four soloists, double choir and large orchestra at Teatro La Fenice. He steps in for Riccardo Chailly who suddenly fell ill. Madernas Requiem had been considered as lost. But a surviving copy was discoverd in September 2006 in the library of the New York University by Italian musicologist Veniero Rizzardi. The World Premiere is one of the outstanding events in La Fenice's season 2009/10. Carmela Remigio (s), Veronica Simeoni (a), Lorenzo Regazzo (t) and Mario Zeffiri (b) will sing the solo parts, accompanied by Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice, conducted by Andrea Molino. The concert will be broadcast live by RAI Radio 3. The venue for the two concerts is Venice's Teatro La Fenice on November 19 (8pm) and 20 (5pm), 2009
	Press Conference Of Flowers And Flames – DVD Presentation December 2, 12.30 p.m., Ca' Farsetti, Venice 25 years after the Bhopal disaster Andrea Molino dedicated his multimedial concert Of Flowers And Flames to its victims. His project gives voice and pays homage, through art and music, to the passion, courage and spirit of the people whose lives have been touched by the horror of this event. Of Flowers And Flames was premiered on occasion of the closure of the World Venice Forum 2009 on October 3, 2009 with Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, in the Basilica dei Frari. Now a DVD of the World Premiere produced by the IAES and the Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti is available. It will be presented in a press conference in Venice on December 2, 2009, in the presence of Andrea Molino and, among others, of Massimo Cacciari (Mayor of the City of Venice) as well as, in a telephone connection, of Peace Nobel Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, President of the IAES and Satinath Sarangi who founded the Sambhavna Trust in Bhopal. Reviews
	October 3 and 4, 2009 - Venice - Basilica dei Frari Of Flowers And Flames World Premiere – Multimedia Concert Andrea Molino's new work for orchestra and live video will be presented in the frame of the Gala Concert marking the conclusion of the World Venice Forum 2009 in the Basilica dei Frari. Of Flowers And Flames was conceived on occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster: In December 1984 a cloud of toxic gas was released from an American pesticide factory in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), an event frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster. The multimedia concert wishes to give voice and pay homage, through art and music, to the passion, courage and spirit of the people whose lives have been touched by the horror of this event. Through their testimony, Of Flowers And Flames reaches out to the entire international community. "If justice is not done in Bhopal, then justice won't be done in this world" says Satinath Sarangi, and thus the project finds its natural context within the World Venice Forum, dedicated to the creation of the International Environmental Criminal Court in Venice. In June 2009 Andrea Molino accompanied by a video crew went to Bhopal were audiovisual material was collected which will become the multimedia material projected during the performance. By using a specifically developed multimedia software (MeRit) the musicians will musically interact with the audiovisual material: the video becomes an instrument. Andrea Molino will conduct the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice; the program also presents works by Ives, Sciarrino, Goebbels, Walshe and Monteverdi and Gabrieli adaptions by Ambrosini more
	The Gala Concert is part of The Garden Of Forking Paths, the Cultural Program of the World Venice Forum 2009. As its Cultural and Artistic Director, Andrea Molino has conceived a voluminous two-day-program of concerts and multimedia installations, in part as live connections with different locations all over the world, through the collaborations with the Brisbane Festival, Wien Modern, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Hellerau in Dresden, the Manchester Camerata and the Milan Triennale among others. In the focus are composers like Stockhausen, Cage (with an homage to the 70th anniversary of the Premiere of Imaginary Landscapes), Messiaen, Saariaho, Murail, Kurtág and others, locations all over Venice and internationally renowned performers. more
	WORLD PREMIERE on DVD Molino conducts Mosca's Signor Goldoni Signor Goldoni by composer Luca Mosca and librettist Gianluigi Melega was commissioned by Teatro La Fenice to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Carlo Goldoni. The World Premiere, conducted by Andrea Molino in September 2007 at La Fenice in Venice is now available on dvd. A cast of internationally renowned singers including Barbara Hannigan, Alda Caiello, Sara Mingardo and Cristina Zavalloni is directed by Davide Livermore. Andrea Molino conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice. The lively two-act comedy is an homage to Carlo Goldoni, but even more to Venice. Taking place in a surreal, dreamlike dimension of complete imaginative liberty, it is a play of masks that bears the stamp of comic energy, allusion, delicacy and - thanks to its music - a constant, incessant movement. more
	Andrea Molino: un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être Documentary Video The World Premiere of Andrea Molino's multimedia staged concert un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être on June 6. 2008 at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Lille is documented on a recently released video. The project, produced by Le Fresnoy and published by RAI Trade, was performed by David Moss (vocalist), Michele Marelli (basset horn), Marco Giovinazzo (percussions) and Emmanuelle Fitamant (actress), and features a.o. video materials from the project We, On Death Row by Oliviero Toscani. The video is available on Andrea Molino's homepage.
	Dresden - October 12, 2008 Molino conducts Closing Event of 22nd Dresden Festival of Contemporary Music Andrea Molino will conduct the Dresdner Sinfoniker on occasion of the closing concert of the 22nd Dresden Festival of Contemporary Music on October 12, 2008 at 8pm in the Festspielhaus Hellerau (great concert hall). On the programme: - a space odyssey \| de stijl :: remix08 Louis Andriessen: De Stijl Speaker: Beppie Blanckert Solo Voices: Tannie Willemstein, Marleene Goldstein, Barbara Borden, Ananda Goud Stanley Kubrick's "2001 - A Space Odyssey": live Video-ReMix VJ: ivan e. Dresdner Sinfoniker Conductor: Andrea Molino The unconventional and exciting orchestration of Louis Andriessen's masterwork „De Stijl" (no strings, 6 saxophones, brass, three pianos - one of them upright-, synth, two electric guitars, electric bass, 4 female voices, rock percussions...) is probably the most evident and spectacular common element between the two parts of this unusual concert program. In reality, the concept that organically relates Andriessen's visionary work to ivan e.'s video-remix of Stanley Kubrick's cult film - one of the musically most specific movies of the history of cinema - goes far beyond this. The goal is to define new boundaries of the concept and the praxis of live performance: existing rituals are no more sufficient, new paths need to be explored. After their first collaboration in Paris for the WINNERS project, Andrea Molino and the Dresdner Sinfoniker meet again on this common vision. more
	June 2008 Molino starts collaboration with Lundström Arts Management From June, 2008 Andrea Molino has started a collaboration with Lundström Arts Management, Dublin/Ireland (www.lundstrom-am.com). The new international artist's agency is representing him both as a composer and a conductor. For direct contact please write to info@lundstrom-am.com more
	June 6, 2008 – Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Lille un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être A multimedia staged concert (2007-2008) World Premiere Categories such as simultaneity, temporal linearity, univocity of the concept of duration (that is, memory) not only form part of the everyday arsenal of the musician. They are the pillars on which stand all possible types of communication through which the entire information exchange system within a community is transmitted: its culture. Closer inspection, however, shows how this construct of elements is not as solid as it might appear. The identification of possible "deviations" from the system of collective conventions can liberate a surprising charge of linguistic and expressive potential: for example, a series of perceptual illusions that can prove stimulating, interesting and amusing. The purpose of the present project is precisely to explore its vocabulary, by employing in the musical field and in the context of a concert the linguistic possibilities of the new communication technologies. The project, produced by Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains and published by RAI Trade, is performed by David Moss (vocalist), Michele Marelli (basset horn), Marco Giovinazzo (percussions) and Emmanuelle Fitamant (actress), and features a.o. video materials from the project "We, On Death Row" by Oliviero Toscani. The World Premiere will take place on June 6, 2008 at Le Fresnoy (Lille) on occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Panorama 9-10".
	July 7-11, 2008 – Fondazione Replay, Venice The Garden Of Forking Paths - Workshop The "Pause – Summer Camp" Workshop Series of the Replay Foundation in Venice will host Andrea Molino's interdisciplinary workshop under the title "The Garden Of Forking Paths". The workshop is open to musicians as well as to video artists, graphic designers, digital artists, web designers and photographers and will develop itself a.o. through the labyrinth of the streets and the canals of Venice, with base camp at Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, the Foundation's new Venetian venue. Other workshops in the “Pause - Summer Camp” program will be hold by such artists as Casey Reas (interaction designer), Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (photographers), Matali Crasset (industrial designer), Anthony Burrill (graphic designer). For information and applications: workshop@fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org. From 2008 Andrea Molino is also the Music Curator of the Replay Foundation.
	Lille – 2007-2008 Molino is "Invited Artist" at Le Fresnoy For the season 2007-2008 Andrea Molino is "Invited Artist" at Le Fresnoy in Lille (France). Le Fresnoy, a French national studio for contemporary art, is a center for advanced studies focussing also on interdisciplinary multimedia artistic research. Invited artists guarantee for the high and up-to-date quality of teaching and are given the possibility to realize projects. Thus Andrea Molino will present a new project of his own in the frame of the festival Panorama in June 2008.
	Dresden – February 2008 WINNERS presented in international colloquium On February 11, Andrea Molino has presented his project WINNERS in the frame of the 2nd international colloquium "Erinnern als Engagement für Frieden, Demokratie & Menschenrechte", held on occasion of the anniversary of Dresden's destruction (February 13, 1945). International and local participants – renowned scientists and artists – discussed subjects associated with the event's historical and actual effects. Among the numerous organizers were the Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Dresden, Sachsen's capital), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Jewish Community.
	Rome – January 13th, 2008 Paolo Fresu Runnin' – A Multimedia Event Andrea Molino has signed for the multimedia direction and the live video concept on occasion of a multimedia project presented by the Fondazione Musica per Roma and performed in Rome on January 13, 2008. Featuring the celebrated Italian jazz trumpet player Paolo Fresu and friends, the project Paolo Fresu Runnin' took place simultaneously in all three concert halls and in the foyers of Rome's Auditorium - Parco della Musica. The sound and video system MeRit, developed by Andrea Molino and Holger Stenschke, made such simultaneous performances possible and was an important contribution to an event connecting different spaces and different audiences.
	September 2007 Signor Goldoni by Mosca and Melega in Venice Molino has conducted the World Premiere of Mosca's Opera at La Fenice Andrea Molino has conducted the first performance of the dramma giocoso in two acts Signor Goldoni by composer Luca Mosca and librettist Gianluigi Melega at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on September 21. The premiere was broadcasted live by the Italian Radio RAI 3. Reviews unanimously praised Molino's precise and passionate work with a well prepared orchestra and choir and a cast of internationally renowned singers including Barbara Hannigan, Alda Caiello, Sara Mingardo and Cristina Zavalloni. "Opera buffs expecting a traditional opera at the world premiere of Signor Goldoni were surprised with English. The opera marks the third centennial of the birth of one of Venice's favorite sons, Carlo Goldoni. The venerable Venice opera house La Fenice commissioned the work," writes Sylvia Poggioli in her radio review "All Things Considered" (September 29, 2007); click here to listen: NPR Radio.