Andrea Molino - conductor and composer

Andrea Molino, conductor and composer, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich. As a conductor, he opened the 2013 season of Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House with Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera with the direction of La Fura dels Baus; he later conducted the same production at the Melbourne Arts Center. In Sydney in 2011 he had already conducted Verdi's Macbeth and Floyd's Of Mice and Men and, in 2014, Rossini's Il Turco in Italia. Future plans with Opera Australia include La Bohème and Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Mr Molino will also conduct Tosca in Melbourne; Il Turco in Italia in Brisbane and a symphonic concert in Dresden.

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 Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and conducted Luca Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Claudio Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole, which he later conducted at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, France. After his debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival with the BBC SSO Glasgow, with the British Premiere of Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities, and at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Klangforum Wien, he conducted among others the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker (including the Palestine Tour, 2013), the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, The Queensland Orchestra at the Sydney Festival, Berliner Festspiele / März Musik in the Philharmonie in Berlin, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with Goebbels' Industry and Idleness), Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden.

As a composer, with the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he realized the smiling carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani. 2000 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica. In 2004 he conducted his Credo at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then at the Stazione Termini in Rome for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane. Winners was premiered in 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European Premiere followed at Centre Pompidou in Paris. un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy, in Lille.

In 2009, as Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, he curated the Festival The Garden of Forking Paths. At the Basilica dei Frari he conducted the Orchestra della Fenice in his multimedia concert Of Flowers and Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, was first performed in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and received the Music Theatre Now Award. His last opera, - there is no why here -, was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in April 2014; further performances will follow in 2015 in Antwerp and Rotterdam for deSingel, Vlaamse Opera and Operadagen Rotterdam.

His recordings are published in CD and DVD by Stradivarius, Milan, ECM, Munich, and Naïve, Paris. His compositions are published by RAI Trade, Nuova Stradivarius and Ricordi.