Venice, October 8-13, 2010 – Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Institute for Living Voice (ILV) in Venice
A project of Theater Transparant Antwerp in co-production with Fondazione Claudio Buziol and Fondazione Giorgio Cini and in collaboration with the Conservatorio „B. Marcello" (Venice)

As the music curator of the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Andrea Molino has invited the Institute for Living Voice (ILV) to Venice. From October 8-13, the ILV will present the 14th edition of its annual international educational project, directed by David Moss and dedicated to the diversity and richness of the vocal art in workshops, concerts, debates and lectures with David Moss himself, Barbara Hannigan and Trevor Wishart.
The Venice edition is organized in co-production with the Fondazione Claudio Buziol and the laboratorioarazzi (electroacoustic music laboratories at the Istituto per la Musica of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini) and in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Musica „B. Marcello". It will take place in the spectacular building of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Dresden-Hellerau, October 9, 2010 – Festival Tonlagen
Andrea Molino conducts World Premiere of Marc Sinan's
HASRETIM – EINE ANATOLISCHE REISE
 

Songs from the mountains around Erzurum and Kars on the easternmost outskirts of Turkey, close to the Armenian frontier, are a musical documentation of a different modern world: archaic melodies which have told an endless variety of stories about love, hate, God and the mountains since time immemorial. Driven by hasret – the Turkish term for undefinable longing – the German Turkish musician Marc Sinan and Markus Rindt, manager of Dresden Symphony Orchestra (Dresdner Sinfoniker), looked for musical encounters in this wide, wild landscape. The result is a concert installation with video documents and Turkish folk music as well as the music of Turkish troubadours. The world premiere of the production will be presented in the frame of the festival Tonlagen on October 9, 2010. Andrea Molino conducts an ensemble of 22 instrumentalists, composed of members of the Dresdner Sinfoniker and Turkish musicians. The score itself is the result of an intense collaoration between Marc Sinan and Andrea Molino.

Venue: Dresden-Hellerau, Festspielhaus, Großer Saal, 7pm

Ostfildern, October 1, 2010 – opening of the Festival Zukunftsmusik
Andrea Molino directs World Premiere
of Paolo Perezzani's Au bord du sens
A piece involving professional and amateur musicians

Paolo Perezzani's full evening Au bord du sens involves not only ten singers of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and four percussionists, but also ensembles of the Jugendmusikschule and choirs of Ostfildern and about 200 persons without special musical knowledges participating with their voices and producing sounds just by simple gestures. Together, they will create a most complex musical event, still enlarged by the projection of literary and philosophical texts.
Andrea Molino will coordinate and conduct this concert, the opening event of Zukunftsmusik, a festival for innovative music, conceived and organized by Musik der Jahrhunderte in cooperation with KulturRegion Stuttgart.

Stuttgart, September 7, 2010
Andrea Molino directs Stockhausen's Sternklang
A "Park Music" in the frame of sounding D and Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart

Music, under a heaven spotted by stars, becomes part of the universe. Stockhausen's Sternklang, a "Park Music", is conceived for five groups of musicians placed far one from another in a park – they cannot see but still hear each other group. The project will be realized in Stuttgart's Höhenpark Killesberg in the frame of sounding D and the Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart. The production is a cooperation between the Internationale Bachakademie (organizer of the Musikfest) and Netzwerk Süd/Musik der Jahrhunderte. Andrea Molino will direct singers and musicians of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Ensemble ascolta and others, united specially for this complex and somptuous project.

Venue: Stuttgart, Höhenpark Killesberg, 8pm

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.

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

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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).

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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

WORLD PREMIERE on DVD
Molino conducts Mosca's Signor Goldoni 

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.

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