Josephine Vains
Josephine Vains is an Australian cellist, chamber musician and educator, with a performance career encompassing modern and historical ‘cello.
An adventurous spirit has taken her to some far-flung concert venues – from a 1000-year-old cave in the heart of China to mountain-top Bach in the French Alps. These days she performs regularly in Australia and beyond with Firebird Trio, Accademia Arcadia, Elysium Ensemble, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra and CellOZ. A regular collaborator with composers, she has recorded on modern and historical instruments for Resonus Classics, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies and HUSH.
Josephine loves working with the cello and chamber music students at VCA Secondary School and Melbourne University. She plays on a Dodd Cello, 1800, London.
Performing as Firebird Trio
Like its mythical namesake which shone magically through the darkness, Firebird Trio sheds light on music from all epochs. Founded in 2010, they have performed nationwide to critical acclaim, with a vibrancy of imagination that echoes its name.
The Other Side of Tony Gould
Tony Gould is best known as a jazz pianist and improviser. This recording turns to his classical side: original concert works written over two decades, with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in a four-hand piano version.
Josephine Vains also appears on
Bach to China with Yu
Volume 3 of Julian Yu’s clarinet music, with Robert Schubert and ensemble in arrangements that join Chinese folk melody to Western classical craft.
Josephine Vains is a member of
Accademia Arcadia
Accademia Arcadia plays baroque cantatas and chamber sonatas with one-to-a-part heat: Buxtehude's sacred motets, Handel's Italian dramas full of fire, Corelli through Purcell and Leclair, and improvisatory violin writing that still feels spontaneous.