Victor Sangiorgio

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Victor Sangiorgio is an Australian classical pianist. He was born in Italy, grew up and trained in Australia, resides in London and performs internationally.

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Victor Sangiorgio was born in Italy but his family moved to Australia when he was four, and settled in Perth, Western Australia. He completed his initial training at Perth Modern School, as a member of the school's music scholarship programme. Further studies were with Stephen Dornan, Roy Shepherd, Guido Agosti and Noretta Conci. [1]

By the age of nineteen he had been a soloist with all the major Australian orchestras and had recorded and broadcast extensively on radio and television. [2] He was a finalist in the 1978 ABC Instrumental and Vocal competition. He was a finalist in the 1988 Sydney International Piano Competition and won a special prize for the best performance of an Australian composition. [3] [4]

He was the featured soloist on the Australian Youth Orchestra's and West Australian Symphony Orchestra's tours of China, Hong Kong and Singapore. [2]

With Belinda McFarlane, violin, and Matthew Lee, cello, he is a member of the piano trio fiorini. [5]

Victor Sangiorgio has given masterclasses in many cities and has also been artist in residence at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2003) [6] and Visiting Lecturer in Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Colchester Institute, [7] and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. [8] [9]

With the actor Andrew Sachs, he has toured with a two-man show called "Life after Fawlty", which included Richard Strauss's voice and piano setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden". [10] [11]

In March 2008, with the General Manager of the Perth Concert Hall, he travelled to the Steinway factory in Hamburg to select a new Concert D Model Steinway piano for the Concert Hall. [12]

Discography (not complete)


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References

  1. ↑ Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Retrieved 27 February 2014
  2. 1 2 Naxos
  3. ↑ SIPCA
  4. ↑ "SIPCA". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Fiorini site
  6. ↑ ABC Classic FM
  7. ↑ Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  8. ↑ Les Heures Musicales d’Aujois
  9. ↑ pianoaccompanists.com
  10. ↑ LyndaRonan Personal Management
  11. ↑ "Thornbury Arts Festival 2001". Archived from the original on 17 October 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  12. ↑ Perth Concert Hall
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