ABOUT THE MUSIC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano
1) Allegro
2) Tempo di Menuetto
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Witold Lutoslawski
Subito
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Toru Takemitsu
Distance de Fee
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Edward Elgar
Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano
1) Allegro
2) Andante
3) Allegro, non troppo
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Victoria Sayles is currently Associate Leader of the London Mozart Players and Section Leader at Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. She divides her time between UK and Sweden and is a busy chamber musician in Europe with ensemble OModernt. Victoria was a scholar at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and graduated a year early having won a job as Concertmaster of Santiago Opera House, Chile aged just 21 years old. As a scholar at Bryanston School and RCM, Victoria also won scholarships to Keshet Eilon studying with Ida Haendal, Bowdoin International Music Festival studying with Ani Schnarch and Itzhak Rashkovsky amongst others. Victoria has been concertmaster of BBC Scottish Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber, Swedish Radio and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras.
Victoria is also a passionate educationalist and was Director of Music at Hazlegrove School (2016-2019) where she was featured regularly in Attain Magazine, Country Child Magazine, Tatler School’s Guide for her contribution to education in the south west of England. As a chamber musician Victoria has worked with Brisbane based Southern Cross Soloists, North York Moors Chamber Music Festival in the UK with Thomas Ades, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Bangalow Music Festival, International Musicians Seminar with Stephen Isserlis and she has also joined Australian Chamber Orchestra for many projects in Australia, UK and USA. As a recital artist, Victoria is regularly featured both live and online streaming countrywide in Sweden for the Royal Opera House and throughout the UK for London Mozart Players. During lockdown Victoria was commissioned to write a number of articles for BBC Music Magazine, The Strad and The Arts Desk. Victoria plays a Rogeri violin on loan from the Royal Swedish Opera and a Fetique bow on loan from a private sponsor in Sydney, Australia.
Hailed as a “born communicator” (The Australian), a “brilliant young musician” (Otago Times), and a “soloist of superb virtuosic skill and musicality” (Limelight), Alex Raineri (b. 1993) is active Internationally and throughout Australia as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, writer, producer and educator.
International performances include tours throughout America, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and Austria. Within Australia, Alex has appeared as a feature artist in many major festivals and venues. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Queensland, Tasmanian, Darwin and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, Ensemble Q, Southern Cross Soloists, Orchestra Victoria, Four Winds Festival Orchestra, Bangalow Festival Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony and the Queensland Pops Orchestra. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio NZ, California Capital Public Radio, ABC Classic FM and all of the Australian MBS Networks.
Alex is the Artistic Director of the annual Brisbane Music Festival. He is a passionate exponent and commissioner of contemporary music, having given 109 World Premieres + 147 Australian Premieres to date.
Major awards include the Kerikeri International Piano Competition and Australian National Piano Award. He was the recipient of the Queensland Luminary Award in the 2021 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards and received a Kranichsteiner Musikpries at the International Summer Courses for New Music (Darmstadt, Germany).
Notable collaborations include Andreas Ottensamer, TwoSet Violin, eighth blackbird, ELISION, Sara Macliver, Natalie Clein, Natsuko Yoshimoto, Karin Schaupp, Greta Bradman, Li Wei Qin, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Jack Liebeck, Kathryn Stott, Slava Grigoryan, Brett Dean, William Barton, Ensemble Offspring, Orava Quartet, and many others.
Additionally to a full-time performative profile, Alex is a radio-presenter on 4MBS Classic FM, a reviewer for The Music Trust’s ‘Loudmouth’, and holds associate artist positions at both the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University + University of Queensland.
VENUE – OPERA QUEENSLAND STUDIO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SUPPORT
With thanks to the team at Opera Queensland - in particular Patrick Nolan, Annette Kerwitz, Alex Loh + Carli Griffin.
Alex Raineri’s appearance in the 2022 festival is generously supported by Loris Orthwein.
The Brisbane Music Festival is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
With gratitude to the following partner organisations and funding bodies for their support.
With thanks also to Gretel Farm, Simply Classical, The Brunswick Green and the countless individuals who have privately supported the 2022 BMF.
