Andrea Molino
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Andrea Molino (born in 1964 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer and an internationally active conductor. He has attracted international attention through a disturbing video/music theatre work, Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice, a project about capital punishment, and later through the multimedia music theatre projects CREDO and WINNERS. Since 1996 he has been Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company Nuremberg. As Artistic Director of the Music Department of Fabrica (2000-2006), he has worked on projects together with Heiner Goebbels, David Moss, Koichi Makigami and others. His work is documented on many CDs and on DVDs.
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[edit] Biography
Andrea Molino studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich and in Venice. In 1997, as Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he conducted the world premiere of Alessandro Melchiorre's Unreported inbound Palermo and in 2000, the premiere of the stage version of Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities. He has also produced own projects The Smiling Carcass (1999), based on the subject of advertising, and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), both in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani
From 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica, the music department of the Italian communication research center, Fabrica. As well as collaborating with musicians like Heiner Goebbels, David Moss, Koichi Makigami, and Phil Minton, his own projects have included VOICES, performed in October 2000 at the RomaEuropa Festival featuring previously unseen video material by Godfrey Reggio, and Drops On A Hot Stone, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, premiered in December 2001 at the Capitol in Rome after a preview in Berlin. CREDO, a multimedia music theatre on the theme of ethnic and religious conflicts was premiered in April 2004 at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, on the occasion of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; in July 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. His most recent multimedia music project with Fabrica, WINNERS, has been premiered, conducted by himself, on July 22, 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European premiere took place in October 2006 in Paris at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou.
As a conductor, he opened the 2005 edition of the Venice Biennale's Music Festival at the Teatro La Fenice with the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice. After his debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival – conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the UK Premiere of Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities – and at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Klangforum Wien he opened a.o. the Queensland Music Festival 2003 and 2005 in Brisbane with the The Queensland Orchestra. His scores are published by Ricordi (Milan), Nuova Stradivarius (Milan) and RAI Trade (Rome). He has been recording with Naive (Paris) and Stradivarius (Milan); his concerts and recordings were broadcast by the major international broadcasting companies.
[edit] Selected works
- Winners (2005-06), multimedia music action for 2 saxophones, 7 solo percussionists, symphony orchestra, live electronics and live video
- Credo (2003-04), multimedia music theatre for vocal and instrumental soloists, actors, large orchestra, live electronics, live video and live satellite connections
- Drops On A Hot Stone (2001) for instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
- Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2000-2001) for solo vocalist, solo saxophone, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
- Voices (2000) for solo vocalist, instrumental ensemble, live electronics and live video
- The Smiling Carcass (1998-99) solo vocalist, 2 actors, madrigal ensemble, solo saxophone, ensemble and live electronics
- Earth and Heart Dances (1997) for 5 percussionists and live electronics
- Gesti per un tempo di passione (1996) for 14 instruments
[edit] Selected CDs and DVDs
- Credo (DVD of the world premiere, conductor: Andrea Molino; Naive, Paris, 2006)
- The Smiling Carcass ( live recording of the production of the Pocket Opera Company in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk, conductor: Andrea Molino; CD Stradivarius STR 33558 (1999)
- Serenata n.2, Concerto per 2 pianoforti (A. Orvieto, M. Rapetti, Pf.; Ex Novo Ensemble, Venice; Demoé Percussion Ensemble, Aosta, conductor: Andrea Molino; CD Stradivarius STR 33536, 1999)
- Earth and Heart Dances (Demoé Percussion Ensemble, Aosta; CD Stradivarius STR 33499, 1998)
