15th - 18th February
Including concerts @ Phipps Hall, from 7:30pm, Free Entry
and @ Dai Hall, from 9:00pm, Free Entry
PLUS Creative Coding Lab Meetup, from 12:00pm @ RSG/01
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.
Fanny Hensel, the elder sister of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, has long been recognised as a fine musician and composer, however owing to the restrictions exerted upon her owing to her race, class and not least, gender, her music remains unfamiliar to far too many. This has been, in part, resultant of the absence of scores and recordings.
In 2021, tenor-researcher Tim Parker-Langston (Royal Opera House and Goldsmiths, University of London) published the complete songs of Fanny Hensel as a part of a practice research PhD, in which artistic practice is the primary means of engaging and learning about Hensel’s music.
In this carefully curated recital, Tim, alongside pianist Jonathan Fisher, paint a picture of Hensel’s life through her music and that of her contemporaries. The programme will include songs by Fanny Hensel from different stages of her life and of the musicians who bore influence over her: including her tutors Carl Friedrich Zelter and Ludwig Berger; her brother Felix; Clara Schumann (geb. Wieck) and J.S. Bach.
