For several years, Selene Framarin has been focusing her work as a clarinettist on studying the physical aspects of making music: gesture, corporeality, the performative potential of the repertoire, and even musical theatre itself.
Exploring the relationships between musical literature and various forms of theatre, she creates performances that blend sound, mime, and speech. These include Harlekin, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s composition for a solo clarinetist-mime-dancer; Masked Music, an experiment on contemporary music and different forms of masking; Quella volta che Ulisse, a musical performance based on the Odyssey in duo with pianist Alfonso Alberti; l’Ombra, a storytelling piece for clarinets and loop station; Duel, a musical performance for half-masks in duo with cellist Lorenzo Montanaro.
Selene graduated with the highest honours in clarinet from the Milan Conservatory. She specialized in Musical Theater at the Haute Ecole des Arts de Berne and in contemporary repertoire at the Lucerne Festival Academy. She also studied movement theatre with Giovanni Fusetti and Matteo Destro at Helikos, International School of theatre Creation a Firenze.
She collaborates with renowned composers, including Roberto Andreoni, Daniele Bravi, Carlo Galante, Gabriele Manca, Marco Molteni, Riccardo Panfili, Maurizio Pisati, Yoichi Sugiyama, and Enrico Intra, who have written works for her.
She has performed for institutions and venues such as Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Guggenheim Foundation (Venice), Torino Jazz Festival, Lucerne Festival, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Yamaha Hall (Yokohama), France Télévisions (Strasbourg), Borealis Festival (Bergen), Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Milano Musica, MITO, and Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
She currently teaches chamber music at the Conservatorio della Valle d’Aosta. She has been a faculty member at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Palestine and a volunteer artist on the Turkish-Syrian border in Clowns Without Borders. She believes in the civic significance of making music as a tangible expression of thought and reflection on reality.