) is an Italian

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 composer and conductor. He has first attracted international attention through a video/music theatre work, Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice, a project about capital punishment

Capital punishment

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, and later through the multimedia music theatre projects CREDO and WINNERS.

He has been Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company Nuremberg (1996–2007). As Artistic Director of the Music Department of Fabrica (2000–2006), he has worked on projects together with Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels

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, David Moss

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, Koichi Makigami and others. For the 2007–2008 season he was invited artist at Le Fresnoy, Lille

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 (France

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). 2008 to 2010 Andrea Molino was Music Curator at the Fondazione Claudio Buziol in Venice; since 2009 he is Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, where he conducted his own multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India.

As a conductor, he recently debuted at the Sydney Opera House

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 with Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men and Verdi's Macbeth for Opera Australia

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. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna’s Requiem; at the Fenice he also conducted in December 2010 the world premiere of the opera Il Killer di Parole by Claudio Ambrosini.

His work is documented on many CDs and on DVDs.

Biography

Andrea Molino studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich. 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. His own projects the smiling carcass (1999), based on the subject of advertising, and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), on death penalty, both in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani

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, are the first examples of his commitment towards innovative, multimedia oriented music theatre.

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

Godfrey Reggio

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, 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

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

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, on the occasion of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; in July 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival

Queensland Music Festival

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 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.

The multimedia staged concert "un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être" had its world premiere on June 6, 2008 at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Lille, where Molino was “Invited Artist” for the season 2007–2008.

2008 to 2010 Andrea Molino was Music Curator at the Fondazione Claudio Buziol in Venice. In October 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 own multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India.

As a conductor, he recently debuted at the Sydney Opera House with 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 Bruno Maderna’s Requiem. At the Teatro La Fenice he had opened the 2005 edition of the Venice Music Biennale with Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and he conducted the world premiere productions of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni (2007) and Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole (2010). After his debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival – conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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 and at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Klangforum Wien he conducted a.o. The Queensland Orchestra at the Queensland Music Festival and the Brisbane Festival, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Klangforum Wien, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Teatro Lirico in Spoleto, RomaEuropa Festival, Settembre Musica in Turin, Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with the world premiere of Heiner Goebbels' Industry and Idleness, 2010), Music Biennale Zagreb

Music Biennale Zagreb

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, European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.

His compositions are published by RAI Trade (Rome), Nuova Stradivarius (Milan) and Ricordi (Milan).
He has been recording with Naive (Paris), Stradivarius (Milan) and Dynamic (Genoa).

Selected works

• Of Flowers And Flames (2009), multimedia concert for solo Sarangi (video), symphony orchestra and live video for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India.
• un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l'être (2007–2008), multimedia staged concert for vocalist, basset horn, percussion, actress, live electronics and live video
• 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

Selected CDs and DVDs

• CREDO (DVD of the world premiere, conductor: Andrea Molino; Naive, Paris, 2006)
• Luca Mosca: Signor Goldoni (DVD of the world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; DVD Dynamic 33600, 2008)
• 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)
• Bruno Maderna: 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)

External links

• Andrea Molino's official website
• Infos about Andrea Molino on the site of Federazione CEMAT
• Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice and the smiling carcass on the website of the Pocket Opera Company, Nuremberg
• Infos about Andrea Molino on the Fabrica website
• RAI Trade (Molino’s music publisher)
• Stradivarius (CD-Label and publisher)