Andrea Molino, composer and conductor, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and
Freiburg. He lives in Zurich.
1996 to 2007
he was Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company
in Nuremberg. His own projects the smiling carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001),
about the death penalty (both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani), are
examples of his commitment towards innovative, multimedia-oriented music
theatre. He conducted the death penalty project in Basel and Nuremberg with the
Phoenix Ensemble Basel and in New York and Milan with the Klangforum
Wien.
2000 to 2006
Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica.
His multimedia music theatre CREDO, on ethnic
and religious conflicts, was premiered under his musical direction in April
2004 at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DVD Naïve,
Paris, 2006) and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the World Summit of
Nobel Peace Laureates. In July 2005 it opened the Queensland
Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. His project
WINNERS, on "winners and losers", was
premiered in July 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the
European Premiere followed in October 2006 at the Grande Salle of the Centre
Pompidou in Paris.
The
multimedia staged concert un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être
was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy,
in Lille, where Molino was "Invited Artist" for the season 2007-2008. In
2009, as Artistic Director of the World
Venice Forum,
he curated the Festival The
Garden of Forking Paths.
In the closing concert at the Basilica
dei Frari
he conducted the Orchestra
del Teatro La Fenice
in his multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames,
for the 25th
anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India. His latest
project,
Three
Mile Island,
on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, was first performed
in March 2012 at the ZKM
in Karlsruhe;
the Italian Premiere followed at the Teatro India in Rome.
The project received the Music Theatre Now
Award 2012.
As a
conductor, he opened the 2013 season of Opera
Australia at the Sydney Opera House with Verdi's A Masked Ball with
the direction of La Fura dels Baus: this productin was then presented in Melbourne. In Sydney in 2011 he had
conducted Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men and Verdi's Macbeth. He
opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with
the world premiere of Maderna's Requiem; in the Fenice he had opened
the Music Biennale 2005 with Goebbels' Surrogate Cities and
conducted the world premieres of Mosca's Signor Goldoni and
Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole. He conducted among others the
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Bochumer Symphoniker,
the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker (inlcuding the Palestine Tour, 2013), the
BBC SSO in Glasgow, the OSL in Nancy, The Queensland Orchestra at the
Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus, Sydney Festival, Berliner Festspiele in the Philharmonie in Berlin, Queensland Music Festival,
Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in
Rome, Opéra national de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa
Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with
Goebbels' Industry and Idleness), Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart,
Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden.
His recordings are published in CD
and DVD by Stradivarius, Milan (since 1992), Naïve, Paris and Dynamic (Genoa). His
compositions are published by RAI Trade, Nuova Stradivarius and Ricordi.
(6/2013)
