Andrea Molino

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.

Andrea Molino (born 1964 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor.

Andrea Molino was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg.

He lives in Zurich and Paris.

Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, was first performed in March 2012 at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Klangforum Wien; the Italian Premiere followed at the Teatro India in Rome.

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, 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.

CREDO, a multimedia music theatre on the theme of ethnic and religious conflicts was premiered in April 2004 at the Badisches 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.

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).

He conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Swedish Orchestra, the Malmoe Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lyon at the Edinburgh Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berliner Festspiele / März Musik in the Berliner Philharmonie, Sydney Festival, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Beijing Opera House, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Opéra national de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival among others.

His compositions are published by RAI COM (Rome), Nuova Stradivarius (Milan) and Ricordi (Milan).

He has been recording with Naive (Paris), ECM (Munich), Stradivarius (Milan) and ABC Classics (Sydney) among others.

WINNERS has been premiered, conducted on 22 July 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 6 June 2008 at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Lille, where Molino was “Invited Artist” for the season 2007–2008.

In October 2009, as artistic director of the World Venice Forum, he curated the Festival The Garden Of Forking Paths.

He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna's Requiem (CD Stradivarius, Abbiati Award 2022).

The project received the Music Theatre Now Award 2012.

His opera - there is no why here -, was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in April 2014 and revived in May 2015 in Antwerp at deSingel for the Flemish Opera (Opera XXI Festival).

For Opera Australia he had previously conducted Kròl Roger (directed by Kasper Holten, Green Room Award 2018), Carmen, Tosca and La Bohème (2015 NYE Gala at the Sydney Opera House), A Masked Ball (directed by Alex Ollé - La Fura dels Baus) and Macbeth among others.

I want the things, written for David Moss, has been shown in 2020 by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin as a part of their Dear Ireland project.

In November 2021 The Garden of Forking Paths was premiered at Palazzo Madama in Turin; the project has been the first public implementation of the SWARMS platform, developed with the Centro di Ricerche RAI in Turin.

The music video installation The sense of the place - Montepulciano accompanied the 2022 edition of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano.

La vérité, pas toute, for 32 voices, 8 percussions, electronics and video was premiered in July 2023 at the Chigiana International Festival in Siena.

Recent projects as a conductor include the premiere of Mikael Karlsson (composer)'s Melancholia at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, the opening of the Chigiana International Festival in Siena with Luciano Berio's Coro and Voci, the New York Stories project with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Alban Berg's Wozzeck directed by William Kentridge and Shostakovich's The Nose, directed by Barrie Kosky at the Sydney Opera House for Opera Australia; the world premiere of Cathy Marston's The Cellist at the Royal Opera House in London.