Clementine Margaine

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1990 by order of the Government of the RSFSR. 

Yury Bashmet assumed leadership of the orchestra in 2002, opening up a new chapter in its history. Under Bashmet’s leadership, the orchestra acquired its own unique manner of playing, which is distinguished by creative freedom, audacious interpretations and startlingly inspired performances, all combined with a full, rich sound.

Many eminent musicians have collaborated with the orchestra, including Valery Gergiev, Emil Tabakov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alexander Lazarev, Saulius Sondeckis, David Stern, Luciano Acoccella, Teodor Curentzis, Barry Douglas, Peter Donohoe, Denis Matsuyev, Yelizaveta Leonskaya, Boris Berezovsky, Viktor Tretyakov, Gidon Kremer, Vadim Repin, Sergei Krylov, Viktoria Mullova, Nataliya Gutman, David Geringas, Sergei Antonov, Deborah Voight, Anna Netrebko, Laura Claycomb, Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Patrizia Ciofi, Elina Garanca and Ulyana Lopatkina. 

Since 2002, the orchestra has played more than 350 concerts in Russia and abroad, including in cities of the Volga region, the Golden Ring, the Urals, Siberia, the Moscow region, the Baltic States, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Holland, Spain, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, India, Finland and Japan. 

A varied repertoire, successfully combining classics and contemporary music, constantly attracts listeners. The orchestra has often given premieres of works by such composers as Sofia Gubaydulina, Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov, Mikhail Tariverdiyev, Nino Rota, Ghia Kancheli, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Bela Bartok, Giancarlo Menotti, Igor Raykhelson, Emil Tabakov, Alexander Baltin, Vladimir Belyaev, Vladimir Komarov, Boris Frankshteyn and Georgy Buzogly. 

Since 2008, the orchestra has annually taken part in the Yury Bashmet Winter Music Festival in Sochi and the Yury Bashmet International Festivals in Yaroslavl and Minsk.

Andrea Molino, composer and conductor, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Paris and Zurich.

With the Pocket Opera Company Nuremberg in Nuremberg he realized the smiling carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), about the death penalty (both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani), first examples of his commitment to innovative, multimedia-oriented music theatre.

From 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica. His multimedia music theatre CREDO, on ethnic and religious conflicts, was premiered in April 2004 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. WINNERS, on “winners and losers”, was premiered in 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European Premiere followed at the Grande Salle of the 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, 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. Three Mile Island was first performed in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Music Theatre Now Award 2013); the Italian Premiere followed at the Teatro India in Rome. His most recent opera, – there is no why here –, was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2014 and revived in May 2015 in Antwerp at deSingel for the Vlaamse Opera (Opera XXI Festival).

Recent projects as a conductor include Berg's Wozzeck directed by William Kentridge and Shostakovich's The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky at the Sydney Opera House for Opera Australia, Szymanowski's Kròl Roger at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, a Mahler/Messiaen/Strauss program at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne with Thomas Hampson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Carmen at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. For Opera Australia he had previously conducted Król Roger (directed by Kasper Holten, Green Room Award 2018), Carmen, Tosca and La Bohème (2015 New Year's Eve Gala at the Sydney Opera House), A Masked Ball (directed by Alex Ollé – La Fura dels Baus) and Macbeth among others. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Maderna’s Requiem; in Venice, he had previously opened the Music Biennale 2005 with Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and conducted the world premiere productions of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole.

He conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker (with the project aghet, dedicated to the Armenian genocide, among others), the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the BBC SSO Glasgow, the Royal Swedish Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berliner Festspiele in the Philharmonie in Berlin, Beijing Opera House, Sydney Festival, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Opéra de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden.

His recordings are published on CD and DVD by Stradivarius (Milan), ECM (Munich), Naïve (Paris) and ABC Classics (Sydney), among others. His compositions are published by RAI Trade, Nuova Stradivarius and Ricordi (Milan).