Mr. Molinaro is a violinist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and teacher.
As a creative musician, he communicates with other musicians in new, old, and innovative ways: sharp, dense, and intricately notated harmonies and rhythms for large ensembles; performance art guidelines for non-reading vocalists; intentionally unplayable impressions for toy piano; interactive multimedia installations; improvisatory sketches of original rhythms and scales or jazz charts.
His compositional language is meant to surprise and engage the audience, compliment the performer, challenge our sense of time, demonstrate a progressive sense of communication, form an objectively tangled hierarchy, and encourage a revolutionary spirit. In other words, he hopes for his compositions to come alive.
Some musical influences include “Spectralism”, “new complexity,” current jazz and improvised music of all generations, classical music of Asia, American old-time, musique concrète and the inherent music of the spoken word, and outgrowths of rock including noise, grind, folk-punk, drone, and noodle.
He performs with Basilica and the Goodhands Team. He is a graduate of the IU Jacobs School of Music, where he studied under Henryk Kowalski. He currently teaches junior high orchestras in the Franklin Central Schools, and is a member of the Art Hospital collective in Bloomington.
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