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Alex Raineri Fairytales

Hailed as “a born communicator” (The Australian), award-winning pianist, Alex Raineri has toured extensively both nationally and internationally. With a touring profile in 2024 that includes performances throughout the USA, UK, Ireland, Finland, and the Netherlands, Alex will include NSW’s Northern Rivers and New England regions this November.    

A performer in high demand, Raineri has appeared as a feature artist in many major festivals and venues within Australia. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Queensland, Tasmanian, Darwin and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, and others. Raineri also serves as Artistic Director of the annual Brisbane Music Festival and Brisbane’s inner-city music venue, FourthWall Arts.

A passionate exponent and commissioner of contemporary music, Raineri’s extensive career has seen him commission over 70 works and give over 130 premieres to date. Fairytales, is no exception with 4 of the 5 works featured commissioned by Raineri.

Weaving tales of passion, loss, and beauty, Fairytales will showcase works by contemporary Australian composers John Rotar, Michael Bakrnčev, Katy Abbott, and Ian Whitney, culminating in Melody Eötvös’ Piano Sonata No. 2, based on a lesser-known Hans Christian Andersen tale, ‘A Story from the Sand Dunes’.   

Alex Raineri said: “I am so excited to be touring with Music in the Regions. Australia is such a vast and incredible country, and musicians so often get stuck in the cities. I can’t wait to bring this collection of captivating Homegrown Aussie works to many regional communities.   

  With the exception of Katy Abbott’s cascading beautiful work ‘Glisten’, all of the featured compositions were commissioned by myself. It is exciting to share this incredible Australian music, but equally exciting for me to share work which I am so closely tethered to, having played a pivotal role in the development and creation of these new works.   

I hope that audiences will revel in the wonder and beauty of these musical works, and be captivated by the incredible skill and poetic sentiment of Australia’s contemporary composers.“