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

Biography

Victor Sangiorgio was born in Italy but his family moved to Australia when he was four, and settled in

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. He completed his initial training at

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, as a member of the school's music scholarship programme. Further studies were with Stephen Dornan,

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and Noretta Conci. 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.Naxos
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and won a special prize for the best performance of an Australian composition. He was the featured soloist on the Australian Youth Orchestra's and

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's tours of China, Hong Kong and Singapore. With Belinda McFarlane, violin, and Matthew Lee, cello, he is a member of the piano trio ''fiorini''. Victor Sangiorgio has given masterclasses in many cities and has also been artist in residence at the

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(2003) and Visiting Lecturer in Piano at the

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, the

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, and the

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. With the actor

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, 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 "

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". In March 2008, with the General Manager of the Perth Concert Hall, he travelled to the Steinway factory in

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to select a new Concert D Model Steinway piano for the Concert Hall.Perth Concert Hall
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Discography (not complete)

* Stanley Bate: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 28;

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: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F *

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: Piano concerto, Op. 21 (with

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conducted by

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) * John Carmichael: works including Piano Quartet ''Sea Changes'' *

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: 2 volumes of sonatas *

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: ''Concerto symphonique'' for piano and orchestra (with

conducted by

) * Benjamin Godard: Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 31; Introduction et Allegro for piano and orchestra, Op. 49:

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(world premiere recordings) * Franz Liszt: Transcriptions for piano and orchestra of

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(Fantasy on motifs from ''The Ruins of Athens'', S. 122), Berlioz (Grand symphonic fantasy on themes from '' Lelio'', S. 120),

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(''

Wanderer Fantasy The Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 ( D. 760), popularly known as the ''Wanderer Fantasy'', is a four-movement fantasy for solo piano composed by Franz Schubert in 1822. It is widely considered Schubert's most technically demanding composition for th ...

'', S. 366) and Weber (''Polonaise brillante'', S. 367):

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* Igor Stravinsky: Complete works for piano solo * Concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff ( no. 1 in F sharp minor) and Felix Mendelssohn ( no. 2 in D minor)

References

External links

Official Website of Victor Sangiorgio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sangiorgio, Victor Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian classical pianists Male classical pianists Australian music educators People educated at Perth Modern School Piano pedagogues Italian emigrants to Australia 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Australian male musicians 21st-century Australian musicians