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Biography
Alexander Voltz’s work takes inspiration from myth, politics and the historic. His music has been performed and supported by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Queensland, Australian National Academy of Music, Flinders Quartet, Australian Youth Orchestra, Queensland Youth Orchestras, The University of Queensland and others. He has collaborated with musicians including Graham Abbott, Susan Ellis, Alex Raineri and Bradley Voltz. Alexander is currently Emerging Composer-in-Residence with Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.
23-year-old Alexander was a winner in Artology’s 2015 Fanfare Competition (Sydney) and reached the semi-finals of the Bartok World Composition Competition (Budapest) in both 2018 and 2020. He was awarded The University of Queensland’s Prize for Composition in 2019 and 2021. In 2018, he conducted several performances of his chamber symphony Sontsivka across North Queensland. Alexander attended the Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2020 National Music Camp as a composition participant, and was engaged in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Cybec 21st Century Composers’ Program. His chamber opera, Edward and Richard: The True Story of the Princes in the Tower, premiered in July 2021 in Brisbane.
23-year-old Alexander was a winner in Artology’s 2015 Fanfare Competition (Sydney) and reached the semi-finals of the Bartok World Composition Competition (Budapest) in both 2018 and 2020. He was awarded The University of Queensland’s Prize for Composition in 2019 and 2021. In 2018, he conducted several performances of his chamber symphony Sontsivka across North Queensland. Alexander attended the Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2020 National Music Camp as a composition participant, and was engaged in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Cybec 21st Century Composers’ Program. His chamber opera, Edward and Richard: The True Story of the Princes in the Tower, premiered in July 2021 in Brisbane.
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