CONDUCTOR
Andrea Molino opened Accademia Chigiana’s International Weeks 2023 on the 100th anniversary of its foundation by conducting Luciano Berio’s Voci and Coro. He was reinvited by Accademia Chigiana in Siena for a tribute to György Ligeti in 2024 and to conduct his own new composition for choir and percussion La Vérité, pas toute.
Andrea Molino recently conducted the world première of Mickel Kalsson’s Melancholia at Royal Opera in Stockholm and he is invited by Ravenna Festival in 2025.
He conducted several operas, including Berg’s Wozzeck directed by William Kentridge and Shostakovich’s The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky at Sydney Opera House for Opera Australia; then the world première of Cathy Marston’s The Cellist at Royal Opera House in London; Szymanowski’s Kròl Roger at Royal Opera in Stockholm; a Mahler/Messiaen/Strauss programme with Thomas Hampson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Carmen at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. For Opera Australia he had also conducted Kasper Holten’s production of Kròl Roger (Green Room Award 2018), Carmen, Tosca and La Bohème (2015 NYE Gala at Sydney Opera House), Macbeth and A Masked Ball (production by Àlex Ollé). At Teatro La Fenice in Venezia he opened the 2010 concert season with the world première of Maderna’s Requiem and La Biennale Musica 2005 with Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities.
He conducted concerts with Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Brussels Philharmonic, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Bochumer Symphoniker, Dresdner Sinfoniker, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, BBC SSO of Glasgow, Royal Swedish Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Lyon. He was also invited by Edinburgh Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berliner Festspiele, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sydney Festival, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Beijing Opera House, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell’Opera in Roma, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Romaeuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Music Biennale Zagreb, Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart, Festspielehaus Hellerau in Dresden.
As a composer, Andrea Molino recorded his compositions on CD with Stradivarius, Milano, ECM, München, Naïve, Paris, ABC Classics, Sydney, and for RAI Com editions, Ricordi and Nuova Stradivarius.
With Pocket Opera Company in Nürnberg he performed his composition The Smiling Carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak in a Faint Voice (2001), about the death penalty (both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani).
As the Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica from 2000 to 2006, Andrea Molino carried out several interdisciplinary projects: CREDO, on ethnic and religious conflicts, was premiered in 2004 at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and later performed at Termini Station in Roma for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In 2005 he opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia, with WINNERS, revived in 2006 at the Brisbane Festival and premiered in Europe at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
His multimedia staged concert un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy, in Lille, where he was “Invited Artist”. In 2009 he was in charge of Festival The Garden of Forking Paths for the World Venice Forum. At Basilica dei Frari in Venezia he conducted the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice for his multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames. Three Mile Island was first performed in 2012 at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Music Theatre Now Award 2013) followed by the Italian première at Teatro India in Roma.
His composition Qui non c’è perché was premiered at Teatro Comunale in Bologna in 2014 and revived at De Singel for Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in 2015. I want the things, written for David Moss, has been performed in 2020 by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin as a part of their Dear Ireland project.
Andrea Molino was born and studied in Torino; then furthered his studies in Milano, Venezia, Paris and Freiburg.
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