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Alexander Janiczek, highly sought after as a director, soloist, guest leader and chamber musician, was born in Salzburg to a musical family of Polish and Czech descent. He studied with Helmuth Zehetmair at the Mozarteum and also in masterclasses with Max Rostal, Nathan Milstein, Ruggiero Ricci and Dorothy Delay.
Alexander established his name as a concert violinist at the age of nine when he won first prize in the National Competition of Austria. From the age of twenty he developed a close association with Sándor Végh and the Camerata Salzburg. This led to tours across Europe and the Americas as leader, director and soloist and in recordings including Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante and Mozart’s G Major Concerto – played on Sándor Végh’s famous Paganini Stradivarius.
He is a regular guest director with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom he has toured extensively for many years throughout Europe and the Far East. In 2007 he directed the orchestra in a European tour with Mitsuko Uchida in a programme of Mozart, Strauss & Wagner and again in 2008 in Mozart and Stravinsky. Of his direction of Strauss’s Metamorphosen it was said, “we witnessed the phenomenon of twenty-three musicians linked as telepathically as a quartet” (intermezzo) ”which seemed to emerge through internal combustion.” (The Times). A CD of Alexander directing the COE in Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète and Pulcinella Suite was released to great acclaim on the Linn Records label.
Alexander Janiczek also has a close relationship with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, whom he led from 1999-2002. He continues to be invited back as director and soloist on tours throughout Scotland and Europe, and directed them on their USA tour in 2010. He also directs the Orchestra in the highly acclaimed series of Mozart Serenades for Linn Records, Gramophone label of the year 2010.
He continues to direct Camerata Salzburg and opened their 10/11 season with a programme that included HK Gruber’s Nebelsteinmusik. He also directs Camerata Bern, recently with Heinz Holliger and Christian Gerhaher, and returned this season in a theatre production with the Bern Ballet. He appears as director with other orchestras such as the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Alexander has appeared as guest leader for special projects with orchestras such as: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Budapest Festival, City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, SWR Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and Bavarian State Opera, Munich.
He is also committed to exploring 19th-century performance practice and works regularly with La Chambre Philharmonique under Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe. Alexander has a wide repertoire ranging from Bartók and Berg to Mendelssohn and Mozart and has appeared with artists such as Piotr Anderszewski, Yuri Bashmet, Jiri Belohlávek, Olari Elts, Thierry Fischer, Hans Graf, Philippe Herreweghe, Manfred Honeck, Neeme Järvi, Ton Koopman, Oliver Knussen, Emmanuel Krivine, Antonello Manacorda, Sir Roger Norrington, Murray Perahia, Matthias Pintscher and Joseph Swensen. Alexander’s current concerto engagements include Beethoven, Berg’s Concerto and Chamber Concerto, Mozart, Spohr and Brahm's Double Concerto with Miklós Perényi.
As a dedicated chamber musician, he was invited by Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode to the Marlboro Music Festival and has appeared with artists such as Thomas Adés, Stefan Arnold, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Till Fellner, Steven Isserlis, Boris Pergamenschikow, Dénes Várjon, Jörg Widmann, Llŷr Williams and Christian Zacharias. He has appeared in special chamber music festivals such as a Haydn Festival in Budapest, a Schubertiad in Perth and Midsummermusic with Paul Lewis. He performs with the Hebrides Ensemble and can be heard on their recent acclaimed Messiaen cd for Linn Records. His chamber music with Llŷr Williams includes the Mendelssohn Trios and the Beethoven Sonatas, with a complete Beethoven cycle in Perth and at Festivo Aschau im Chiemgau - the duo made their Wigmore Hall debut in 2011 in a programme of Beethoven Debussy and Janacek.
Alexander has also formed, through close musical partnership with artists who perform with a similar musical aesthetic, his own chamber ensemble, Camerata Janiczek, which has already been invited to perform in Europe and will perform a cycle of Mozart quintets at Festivo Aschau im Chiemgau
Alexander Janiczek plays the ex-‘Sorkin’ Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù, Cremona 1731, which is on loan to him from the National Bank of Austria.
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