Marino Formenti (I)

The Italian born pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has gained a name for himself above all as an interpreter of modern and contemporary music and with his search for a connection between the old and the new. His preference for new, unusual links is reflected in very different projects which often experiment with the concert form.
As a soloist, Marino Formenti has performed concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, among others. His partners have included such conductors as Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Esa Pekka Salonen, and Sylvain Cambreling. He has conducted at Vienna’s Festwochen, at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and at the Ravenna Festival. Marino Formenti works with some of the greatest living composers, including Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Salvatore Sciarrino, Olga Neuwirth, Beat Furrer and Bernhard Lang. He is the winner of the 2009 Belmont prize for contemporary music awarded by the Forberg-Schneider Foundation.

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