Alexander Janiczek
Alexander Janiczek, highly sought after as a director, soloist, guest leader and chamber musician, was born in Salzburg and studied with Helmuth Zehetmair at the Salzburg Mozarteum and with Max Rostal, Nathan Milstein, Ruggiero Ricci and Dorothy Delay. He developed a close association with Sándor Végh and the Camerata Salzburg, whom he led and directed for many years.
Alexander has led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and he continues to be invited back as director and soloist on tours throughout Scotland, Europe and the USA. He has also directed the SCO in the highly acclaimed series of Mozart Serenades for Linn Records (CKD 320 and CKD 287).
He is a guest director and records with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, directing them in a new recording of Stavinsky’s Apollon musagète and Pulcinella Suite (Linn CKD 330), which was released to great acclaim on Linn Records. He also appears with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and explores 19th century performance practice, appearing with Robert Levin and David Watkin, and with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe and La Chambre Philharmonique with Emmanuel Krivine.
As chamber musician, he has also appeared with Joshua Bell, Thomas Adés, Christian Zacharias, Mitsuko Uchida, Denes Varjon and Richard Goode. Alexander performs with the Hebrides Ensemble on their recording of Oliver Messiaen: Chamber Works for Linn (CKD 314). Llˆy Williams is now a regular duo partner of Alexander’s and together they have performed complete Beethoven cycles in Germany and the UK and made thier London’s Wigmore Hall debut in 2011.
Much in demand at festivals across Europe, Alexander has appeared at festivals such as Festival de Saintes, Salzburger Festspiele and the Edinburgh International Festival.
Alexander has also formed, through close musical partnership with artists who perform with a similar musical aesthetic, his own chamber ensemble, Camerata Janiczek. In 2011, the ensemble made its debut in Germany with a Mozart quintet cycle on period instruments.
Alexander Janiczek plays the ex-‘Sorkin’ Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù, Cremona 1731, which is on loan to him from the National Bank of Austria.
Sept 2011