Marino Formenti, pianist and conductor, has established himself as one of the most interesting interpreters of his generation, especially noted for his unusual and experimental concert formats and his visionary programming. Labeled by the press as "a Glenn Gould for the 21st Century", a "visionary" and "genius", he offers fresh interpretations of classic repertoire in context with contemporary music (Kurtag's Ghosts, Nowhere, The Party, Nothing is Real).
He has appeared at the international festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein, Ravinia and Aspen, as well as the great concert halls of Berlin, Vienna, Cologne, Paris, Tokyo, Zurich, Moscow, Rome, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, where he presented a 3-concert cycle, “Piano Trips” for Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series.
Orchestra engagements have included the New York Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande  and the major European radio orchestras, with conductors including Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding and Gustavo Dudamel. He has also collaborated with fellow artists such as Gidon Kremer, Ulrich Matthes and Maurizio Pollini.
Formenti’s performancse are regularly hailed by international press as “mesmeric, shamanic, unforgettable… he is in short a phenomenon” (LA Times). “Superhuman” (LA Times). The LA Weekly wrote of a “state of exhilaration beyond any experience”. The Austrian Standard hailed a “fantastic… incredibly gripping” pianist, the German Welt hailed his “ecstatic play”, the “enrapture of a sleep-walker”.
In 2009 he was presented the BELMONT AWARD of the Forberg-Schneider-Stiftung for his efforts in promoting contemporary music.

2011/12
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