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Marco Molteni (Mariano Comense – Italy – 1962) studied composition with Luciano Chailly and Giuseppe Giuliano at the Conservatorio G.Verdi in Milan, graduating in 1985.
At the same institute he studied electronic music with Riccardo Sinigaglia, graduating with full marks in 1988.
In 1983 and 1984 he attended composing courses held by Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the French Association MC2 Musique Contemporaine of Avignon.
In 1985 he attended the Atelier de Recherche Instrumental organized by Pierre Yves Artaud at Ircam in Paris.
From 1986 to 1994 he took part in the Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt.


* In 1986 he received the 1st prize at the “Icoms International Competition” in Turin with the piece “Ancora Capetingi” (for violin, violoncello and piano).
* Also in 1986 his piece “Les Capetièns partout” (for ensemble) was reported at the “Alfredo Casella International Competition” in Siena.


*In 2001, the piece “Zig Zag Bubble” (for solo piano) won the 2nd Prize at the AGIMUS Varenna National Competition.
*Also in 2001 the piece “Pater Emòn” (for 8 mixed voices) was reported at the “International Competition Guido d’Arezzo”.


*In 2002 his work “Zig Zag Bubble” (for solo piano) was selected for the XI edition of Belgrade’s International Review of Composers.
* Also in 2002 he won the 2nd Prize at the 3rd National Taranto Sound Composition Competition with the piece “Acid Bla” (for clarinet, basso clarinet, trumpet and trombone).


*In 2003 he won the 2nd prize at the “International Competition of composition Guido d’Arezzo” with the piece “Salmo 112″ (for 12 mixed voices and string quartet).
*Also in 2003 the piece “Mir” (for solo organ) won the 2nd prize ex aequo at the 2nd “National Composition Competition Rocco Rodio” – Castellana Grotte (BA).


* In 2010, after being selected by SIMC Italia to participate in the World New Music Days 2010, her piece “Pater Emòn” (for 8 mixed voices) was selected by the ISCM International Committee to be performed by the Sydney Chamber Choir Of the WNMD 2010 Festival (Sydney).
*Also in 2010 his piece (1st part) for electronics “to JL” (ePWsM 03a) was selected to participate in “LUCCAdigitalPHOTOfest”, associated with photographic works by Turin Giorgia Fiorio.


*In 2012 he received the Special Mention with the piece “Mobile Uploads” (for Saxophone Quartet) at the “10th International Competition of Composition Romualdo Marenco” – Novi Ligure (AL).


*In 2014 he received the Diploma of Merit with the piece “Zig Zag Bubble” (for piano) at the XVI edition of the “International Music Tournament (TIM) 2014″.
*Also in 2014, as “Most Distinguished Musician”, he received the “Special Mention” with the piece “In una rada scia” (for guitar) at the New York’s 23rd Annual World Music Competition ( USA).


* In 2015 the piece “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi (ePWsM 03)” was selected by CaminArt Association to participate in the 2015 edition of the International Festival of Electroacoustic Music MUSLAB (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France).


* In January 2016, the piece “Rubber, Lime & Glue (ePWsM 04)” (for electronics) was selected and published by the online magazine “ink & queue” – http: //www.inkandcoda.com
*In February 2016, the piece “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi (ePWsM 03)” (for electronics) was selected to participate in the 2016 edition of the NYCEMF – New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (June 13-19, 2016 at The Abrons Arts Center in New York City).
*Also in February 2016, the piece “Ricerca manipolata (e dato falso) sulla caducità” (for electronics) was selected by the UiTM Music Faculty to attend the Malaysia Music Technology Festival – SPECTRA 2016 (24th-25th September 2016 at Whitebox Publika Solaris Dutamas Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
* In March 2016, the piece “Folio Cinque” (for solo piano) was honored with “Honorable Mention” at the 2nd edition of the International Composition Competition 2015 de Bach au Jazz (under The auspices of “Association Nathalie” – (Paris – France).
* In April 2016, the piece “Incoming Call” (for guitar) was selected by New Music on the Bayou Festival Committee for “New Music on the Bayou Summer Festival” (01-04 June 2016 – Monroe & Ruston (Lousiana).
* Also in April 2016, the piece “Rubber, Lime & Glue (ePWsM 04)” (for electronics) was selected to attend the Wallis Forum (Ars Electronica 2016) – (12 -16 May 2016 Schloss Leuk – Switzerland).
* In June 2016, the piece “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi (ePWsM 03)” (for electronics) was selected to participate in the 2016 EMM (Electronic Music Midwest) (October 13-15, 2016 – Lewis University – Chicago USA).
* In July 2016 he received the Diploma of Merit with the piece “Yellow for Piet” (for clarinet and piano) at the XVIII edition of the International Music Tournament (TIM) 2016.
* In July 2016 the piece “Mohenjo Daro” (for electronics) was selected to participate in the thematic meeting – whose theme was “Moving in Sound Space” – promoted by FKL (Forum Klangland schaft) – (Agropoli 8-11 September 2016).
* Also in July 2016, as “Most Distinguished Musician”, he received the “Special Mention” with the piece “Folio Cinque” (for piano) at the IBLA Grand Prize ( 25th Annual World Music Competition 2016) in New York (USA).
* In September 2016, the piece “Folio Sette” (by hook or by crook) was honored with “Honorable Mention” at “The Opus Dissonus Competition 2016 (Brasil)”. “This award has been specially given by Maestro Artur Cimirro, who will play and record it in the near future.”
* In November 2016, the piece “Rubber, Lime and Glue (ePWsM 04) (for electronics) was selected to participate in Rieti Elettroacustica 2016 – Bateau Lavoir Call for electroacoustic works.
* In December 2016, the piece “Rubber, Lime & Glue (ePWsM 04) (for electronics) was selected to participate in the MA / IN – Matera Intermedia Festival 2016 (Matera – December 17-22, 2016).


* In February 2017 the piece “to JL (ePWsM 03 ab)” (for electronics) was selected to attend the 2017 edition of the NYCEMF – New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (June 19-25, 2017 at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City and July 14-16, 2017 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn)
* In February 2017 the piece “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi (ePWsM 1-3)” (for electronics) was selected to attend the MISE-EN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017 (June 20-25, 2017 – New York USA).
* In February 2017 the piece “Rubber, Lime & Glue (ePWsM 04) (for electronics) was selected (jukebox section) to attend the audiograft Festival (Oxford – UK) and to be present on the” Sonic Art Research Unit webpages At Oxford Brookes University ” In addition, the piece was presented at “Ashmolean Live Friday Supersonic – Oxford Contemporary Music 03.03.2017″.
*In April 2017, the piece “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi (ePWsM 1-3)” (for electronics) was selected to attend the Wallis Forum (Ars Electronica 2017) (02-03 June 2017 Schloss Leuk – Switzerland).
*In May 2017 the piece “to JL (ePWsM 03 ab)” (for electronics) was selected for the sound project “New Music Remix Machine (NMRC)”, installation at the New Music Gathering 2017 (May 11-13 at Bowling Green State University – Ohio USA).
*In June 2017 the piece “Rubber, Lime & Glue (ePWsM 04) (for electronics) was selected by the record label RMN Music Ltd. (London – UK) to be included in a forthcoming publication.

Commissions or other …

* In 1988 he performed on stage at the CRT (Milan Theatrical Research Center) in his musical work “Zwei Szenen Uber Paul” (text by Eliot, Jabes and Pasolini) directed by Giovanni Carluccio, commissioned by CRT – Theater Research Center and Civic School of Music in Milan.
* In 2006, at the Salle Cortot in Paris, was performed the piece “Nefernefruaten-tasherit or Nernefrura?”, commission of the OFF, flute player Pierre Yves Artaud and director M ° Pierre Alain Biget.
* In the academic year 2011-2012, with the rapporteur M ° Mario Caroli, the flutist Laura Faoro, spoke of the piece “Ad Tertiam” (for basso flute and thaj gongs – 1987) in his thesis (cap.V titled “La Flute voice between Christian mysticism and Japanese spiritualism: Molteni and Fukushima “) useful for the Master of Advanced Studies in Flute Contemporary Music Performance and Interpretation at the Italian Conservatory.
* In 2013, at the San Fedele church in Milan, the piece “Sei Brevi per organo” was played by M ° Francesco Catena, commissioned by “Centro Culturale” San Fedele “in Milan and M ° Antonio Pileggi.
* In 2014, his piece “Lunaria” (for piano) was chosen by the commission of the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland (Advanced Course held by M ° Ciro Longobardi) for the achievement of MAS – Master of Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music Performance and Interpretation.
* In 2014, at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice, a project designed by Lucia D’Errico entitled “Tha Waste Land” (The Rite of Death in the Repertoire), for which the Venetian guitarist has asked to include three electronic pieces by Marco Molteni: “to JL” / “Rubber, Lime And Glue” / “Effimere Emergenze, Eremi, Eclissi”.
* In June 2014, the piece “Heiliger Dankgesang” was commissioned by the festival RISUONANZE 2014.

His music has been broadcasted by:

  • Radio France
  • RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
  • ABC – Sidney (Australia)
  • CBC – Toronto (Canada)
  • Radio Cemat
  • Bulgarian National Radio
      • and it has been published by BMG Ricordi (Milano), Ars Publica (Camino al Tagliamento), Edipan (Roma) and Edizioni Agenda (Bologna), Ed. Ass.”G. d’Arezzo” (Ar)

    His music has been performed by:

    Erato Alakiozidou
    Alfonso Alberti
    Emanuele Arciuli
    Pierre Yves Artaud
    Levine Andrade (Arditti String Quartet)
    Alexandra Bartfeld
    Maurizio Ben Omar
    Raffaele Bertolini (New Made Ensemble)
    Pierre Alain Biget (OFF – Orchestre de Flutes Francais)
    Carlo Boccadoro (Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi)
    Marco Bonetti
    Guido Boselli
    Marina Bottacin (Coro Incanto)
    Alessandro Calcagnile (New Made Ensemble)
    Mario Caroli
    Elena Casoli
    Francesco Catena
    Laura Chislett Jones
    Gianluca Codeghini
    Luca Colardo (New Made Ensemble)
    Giovanni Cospito     (curatore, nel 2008 a Como, della performance “carne da macello 1.1″)
    Emilie Cousin
    Adam Cser (Victoria Kamarakórus)
    Francesco Cuoghi
    Lucia D’Errico (Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica)
    Karin De Fleyt
    Andrea Dieci
    Francesco Dillon
    Massimiliano Donninelli (Ensemble di Saxofoni di Trieste)
    Duo Alterno (Tiziana Scandaletti e Riccardo Piacentini)
    Andrea Dulbecco (Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi)
    Selene Framarin
    Mariachiara Grilli
    Jurjen Hempel (Niew Ensemble)
    Christoph Heuberger (Junger Kammerchor)
    Camilla Hoitenga
    Shona Hovannisyan (Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia)
    Giacomo Invernizzi (Dédalo Ensemble)
    Marija Jovanovic
    Daniel Kientzy
    Luca Lavuri
    Joy Lee
    Alberto Ligorio
    Marco Marinoni     (curatore, nel 2011 a Camino al Tagliamento, della regia del suono del brano elettronico “Ricerca manipolata (e dato falso) sulla caducità”)
    Giovanni Battista Mazza
    John McCaughey (Astra Choir)
    Anna Maria Morini
    Raffaello Negri (New Made Ensemble)
    Trami Nguyen (Ensemble Links)
    Marija Nikolovska
    Birgit Nolte (New Made Ensemble)
    Gianluigi Nuccini
    Eirikur Örn Pálsson (Caput Ensemble)
    Rocco Parisi
    Roberto Plano
    Costanza Principe
    Quartetto d’archi Ex Novo Ensemble
    Andrea Rebaudengo (Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi)
    Emanuele Rigamonti
    Piercarlo Sacco (Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi)
    Giampaolo Salbego
    Aurelia Shimkus
    Rossella Spinosa (New Made Ensemble)
    Raffaella Stirpe (New Made Ensemble)
    Sydney Alpha Ensemble
    Sydney Chamber Choir
    Giampiero Taverna (Orchestra dell’Angelicum)
    Dante Tanzi (curatore, nel 2014 a Milano, della regia del suono dei brani elettronici “to JL” e “Rubber, Lime & Glue”)
    Nadejda Tzanova
    Riccardo Vaglini
    Vittorio Vanini
    Geert-Jan van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen (Vocal Ensemble “Cantatrix”)

    in the following places/Festivals::

    - Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Settimana Musicale Senese 1988) Siena
    - Antidogma Musica (Torino)
    - Associazione Musicale Orphee (Pesaro)
    - Festival Lariano
    - Nuova Musica Italiana (Auditorium RAI – Roma)
    - Studio ES elettroacustica sperimentale (Teatro Ghione – Roma)
    - Civica Scuola di Musica (Milano)
    - XLVIII stagione di concerti dell’Orchestra dell’Angelicum (Milano)
    - 1a Rassegna milanese dell’espressività giovanile
    - Festival Studio ES elettroacustica sperimentale (Spazio Ansaldo – Milano)
    - 5a edizione Festival Nuove Sincronie
    - Casa Cini (Ferrara)
    - Università degli Studi (Genova)
    - MC2 Musique Contemporaine (Avignone)
    - Rassegna Jeunes Musiques (Avignone)
    - 4e Stage de l’Atelier de Recherche Instrumentale (Centre Georges Pompidou – IRCAM, Parigi)
    - 2em Forum de Flute (Lione)
    - Convergences (Bagnolet)
    - Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik (Darmstadt)
    - International Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam) – Niew Ensemble
    - Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Salonicco)
    - Grace notes from Hell (Toronto)
    - Arsenale Musica (Pisa)
    - The Canada Council – Array Music
    - Alpha Ensemble (Sydney)
    - Elizabeth University of Music (Hiroshima )
    - Festival Internazionale organistico di Magadino (Suisse)
    - Belgrado (International Review of composers)
    - “Compositori a confronto” (Conservatorio di Reggio Emilia)
    - Rassegna Concertistica Dèdalo Ensemble (Teatro Sancarlino – Brescia)
    - OFF Orchestre de Flûtes Français (Salle Cortot – Parigi)
    - 14th World Saxophone Congress (Ljubljana)
    - “Sabato in Musica” (Auditorium del Conservatorio – Como)
    - Ateneo Veneto (nell’ambito del convegno “Musica e Redenzione (Utopia della speranza nel pensiero musicale del Novecento)
    - Installazione “Mohenjo-Daro” di Emilio Corti e Luisa Mizzoni (Galleria “mon ego” – Como)
    - Festival 5 Giornate (Milano)
    - Accademia Belgica (Roma)
    - Rassegna promossa da Novurgia “Immaginare la Musica” (Bergamo)
    - “Missa Musaica” (un progetto di R.Vaglini e F.Perocco per la Chiesa del Cristo Re – Treviso)
    - 2010 ISCM World New Music Days (Sydney)
    - 1° Festival SIMC (Napoli)
    - Concorso Organistico Nazionale “Camillo Guglielmo Bianchi” (Varzi)
    - XXIII Festival Internazionale, Storici Organi della Valsesia – Organo storico di Gavinana (PS) “Alla battaglia!”
    - Stagione Organi storici in Cadore (Lozzo di Cadore)
    - Camino Contro Corrente 2010 (Disarmonie Notturne) (Camino al Tagliamento) – UD)
    - Vespri e Messe d’organo nella Vigilia (Duomo di Monza)
    - LUCCAdigitalPHOTOfest
    - Compositori a confronto 2011 (Reggio Emilia)
    - Conservatorio G. Verdi (Milano) Sala Puccini – presentazione CD “Amadeus” in occasione del 150° anniversario Unità d’Italia
    - Teatro Manzoni (Monza) – presentazione CD “Amadeus” in occasione del 150° anniversario Unità d’Italia
    - Musiche in mostra 2011 (Genova – Palazzo Rosso)
    - C.I.D. (Circolo Musicale di Sondrio) 51° stagione concertistica
    - Verso Traiettorie 2012 (Casa della Musica di Parma)
    - Esposizione di musica d’arte contemporanea, in collaborazione con la SIMC (Pavia, Aula Magna del Collegio Ghislieri)
    -Festival di Bellagio e del lago di Como (organizzato dal Centro Musica Contemporanea di Milano)
    - “Suono e Segno” , rassegna d’arte e mus. contemp. promosso dallo Spazio Dansei (Olgiate Olona, Teatrino di Villa Gonzaga)
    - Astra Concerts (Spring Piano-plus series II.) (Melbourne – Australia)
    - “Musica? Presente”, rassegna di musica d’arte promossa dalla SIMC (Milano, Teatro Dal Verme)
    - “Disarmonie Notturne” (Palaplip di Mestre)
    - Pitea/midVinter Festival (Pitea – Svezia)
    - “Giovani Musiche Italiane” (a cura di Alfonso Alberti) (Milano – Spazio Sirin)
    - Philharmonic Hall of Kaliningrad (Russia)
    - “Meeting FKL – Per chi suona il Paesaggio” – (Firenze – Vivaio del Malcantone) in collaborazione con l’artista Gianluca Codeghini
    - 11th Europe-Asia International Contemporary Music Festival (Kazan – Russia)
    - Festival Piano City (Milano 2013) – (Palazzina Liberty)
    - Miti e storie nel pianoforte contemporaneo: cadute, naufragi, abbandoni (Mantova – Auditorio del Conservatorio
    - Nova Musica al 113 (Pronto Intervento #3) (Tesa 113 Arsenale di Venezia)
    - University of Arts Berlin (Germania)
    - Festival di Bellagio e del lago di Como 2013
    - Ikarus Pavillon Konzerte 2013 (Basilea – Svizzera)
    - “Signora delle cime” (1a edizione di Teatro Sacro in Valtellina) Morbegno (SO) Santuario della Madonna Assunta
    - MaterElettrica IX Giornata del Contemporaneo al MUSMA di Matera
    - Wilfrid Laurien University (Waterloo – Canada)
    - Institut Culturel Italien & Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur “La maison de la musique (Montreal – Canada)
    - Centro San Fedele Milano 2013
    - REBUS 2013 (In collaborazione con il “Centro di Musica Contemporanea”) (Milano – Teatro Dal Verme)
    - Logos Foundation (Gent – Belgio)
    - Festival 5 Giornate 2014 (Milano – Apollo Spaziocinema – Acousmatic Music and Dance – Acusmonium Mobile AUDIOR)
    - Teatro Fondamenta Nuove 2014 (Venezia) “The Waste Land” (rito sonoro in morte del repertorio a cura di Lucia D’Errico)
    - Festival Risuonanze 2014 – Incontri di nuove musiche
    - Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
    - Festival Nuovi Orizzonti Sonori 2014 – Porretta Terme
    - International Clarinet Festival (Il mondo del clarinetto) 8a edizione (Todi 2014)
    - Travel Kaleidoscope II (Astra Choir – Carlton Australia)
    - REBUS 2014 (Milano – Teatro Dal Verme)
    - Camino Contro Corrente 2014 (Strade dell’Est: “Molti verranno da Est e da Ovest” – Una lunga notte a mosaico) (Camino al Tagliamento) – UD)
    - “Seuls nos yeux brillent” Sélection des poèmes et oeuvres pour piano – Parigi (Frontenay hors le murs)
    - NEW MADE WEEK – Classici di oggi (promosso da Centro Musica Contemporanea) – Lovere (BG) Accademia Tadini
    - XXI edizione della Rassegna “dèdalo ensemble” (Sulle ali del Novecento) – Brescia
    - “International Festival of Electroacoustic Music MUSLAB” (Mexico, Brasile, Argentina, Francia)
    - “Accademia Maestro Raro” – Percorsi d’organo in provincia di Como 2016
    - FORUM WALLIS – Festival fur Neue Musik (de Musique Contemporaine) 2016 – Leuk (Svizzera)
    - NYCEMF – New York City Electroacustic Music Festival – (presso “The Abrons Arts Center” – New York – Usa)
    - Unbound Flute Festival 2016 – Brisbane (Australia) – Queensland Conservatorium
    - Savoca Guitar Festival 2016 – Savoca (Messina) – Masterclass di Andrea Dieci
    - Synthermia International Music Festival 2016 (Salonicco – Grecia) – Idée Fixe Ensemble (Erato Alakiozidou)
    - Fondazione Pierre Gianadda (Martigny – Svizzera) – concerto di inaugurazione della Masterclass di Andrea Dieci (organizzata dalla Fondazione Piseri (Etroubles – Aosta)
    - Festival Internazionale “La Magia del Borgo” (“chitarra e altro … 2016 – XXVIII edizione) – Brisighella (RA)
    - 8th International Piano Academy – 8th International Piano Festival 2016 – (Performance of the winning Prizes of the International Competition of Composition “De Bach au Jazz”) – Poros (Grecia)
    - Festival “Terra tra due mari” (2nd edition) – Galipoli (LE)
    - FKL + ExOrto “Muoversi nel paesaggio sonoro 2016″ – Palazzo civico delle arti – Agropoli (SA)
    - Circolo “Libero Pensiero” – Lecco
    - NOVURGIA (Arte e musica contemporanea) * in collaborazione con “Milano Classica” – “Poesia chiama Musica”: Intermezzi – Milano (Palazzina Liberty)
    - CentoCantù (Teatro Comunale San Teodoro)
    - “Ashmolean Live Friday Supersonic – Oxford Contemporary Music – 03.03.2017″
    - Audiograft Festival (Oxford – UK) 2017
    - Agitprop Galerie – Mestre
    - LIMITED ACCESS7 (2017) – Festival for Moving Images, Sounds & Performance * “FROM HERE TO THERE” (curated by Leonie Roessler) – Teheran (Iran)
    - ppIANISSIMO 2017 (XX International Festival of Contemporary Piano Music) Anniversay Edition: 70 Years from the Beginning
    - Progetto sonoro “New Music Remix Machine (NMRC)”, installazione avvenuta al New Music Gathering 2017 (May 11-13 at Bowling Green State University – Ohio USA)
    - Festival Piano City Milano 2017 – (City Concert) – (Museo Teatrale alla Scala)
    - FORUM WALLIS – Festival fur Neue Musik (de Musique Contemporaine) 2017 – Leuk (Svizzera)

    Recordings

      Confiteor – flauto in sol – PY. Artaud – CD PAN 3034 – Edipan Roma 1992

      Prologo (dall’operina di teatro musicale “Zwei Szenen uber Paul” 1988) – nastro magnetico – CD 003 G Pagano Editoriale – Napoli 1999

      Zig Zag Bubble – pianoforte solo – Neda Hofman – Association of Serbian Composer – 2002

      Come Frisso perse Elle, la viva luce – pianoforte solo – Neda Hofman – Association of Serbian Composer – 2003

      Come Frisso perse Elle, la viva luce / AElia Minimix2 / Folio uno (valzer lento) / Zig Zag Bubble / Three Pills (n.1 memory Walk / n.2 Dance) – Alfonso Alberti – Guido Boselli – DOUBLE NATURE – CD Ars Publica ARS 141-014 – 2011