Molinari Ernesto
Born 1956 in Lugano, he studied the clarinet at the Musikakademie in Basel and bass clarinet at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. Beside his activity as an interpreter of Classical, Romantic and contemporary, repertoire he also performs jazz and improvisation. Since 1994 he has lived in Vienna. His discography includes, among others, works by Olga Neuwirth: Spleen (ACCORD), Construction in Space (Kairos), Todesraten (col legno) and Vampyrotheone (Kairos), Jean Barraqué (Clarinet Concerto, CPO), Emmanuel Nunes (machina mundi, Montaigne), Elliott Carter (ECM), Isabel Mundry (DMR / Wergo), Brian Ferneyhough and many others. Between 1994 and 2005 he was member of the Klangforum Wien. He is a lecturer at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern.