The Brisbane Music Festival has launched its 2022 season program, ahead of the festival kicking off properly on 1 July with a performance from the festival’s Artistic Director and Brisbane-based pianist Alex Raineri and Ensemble Offspring’s Claire Edwardes. The festival, now in its fifth year, has steadily grown from humble beginnings, and is now at the point where the season boasts 17 premieres of new works from international and Australian artists across a handful of venues throughout the next six months.

Alex Raineri. Photo © Peter Godfrey-Smith.

Ahead of the festival’s launch next week, Raineri laid out what is in store for the second half of 2022.

It’s such an expansive program, what do you think audiences can expect from this year’s festival?

It is indeed an expansive program, filled with a hugely diverse range of musical genres and stacks of incredible artists. An important part of the festival’s ethos is to equally balance the old and the new. There’s plenty of Schubert, Rachmaninov, and the...