14-698: Satu Vänskä (born 1979) is a Finnish Australian violinist. Vänskä was born to a Finnish family in the Kinki region of Japan, where she took her first violin lessons at the age of three. Her family moved back to Finland in 1989 and she continued her studies with Pertti Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy . At the age of 11 Vänskä was selected for the Kuhmo Violin School in Finland,
28-573: A result, Mount Isa has one of the largest Finnish communities in Australia. At the end of the Second World War , around 20,000 Finns had moved to Australia. In the last three decades the Finnish immigration has dropped significantly. In the mid 1950s an economic crisis occurs in Finland causing a new wave of Finnish immigration to Australia . One of the main reasons for leaving Finland, besides crisis,
42-661: A special institution for talented young violinists where she attended master classes with Ilya Grubert , Zinaida Gilels and Pavel Vernikov and had the opportunity to perform at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival with the Kuhmo Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. In her teens Vänskä studied violin at Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany. This led to her performances with the Munich Philharmonic ,
56-652: A year. Many Finnish immigrants began arriving in Australia between 1947 and 1971. When these new immigrants came to Australia, they were taken to migrant camps. Once in the camp, they were given free room and board until the head of the family was assigned his first job. The largest and best-known of these camps was Bonegilla , a former military camp in northern Victoria. Most of these Finns, along with more than 300,000 immigrants from other countries, began their new lives in Bonegilla during this period. The first group of Finnish immigrants who arrived in Australia came to work in
70-453: The 2021 census , Bonegilla and the surrounding area had a population of 610. Bonegilla Post Office opened on 20 August 1878 and closed in 1951. Bonegilla Military Post Office was open from 1940 to 1947 and from 1983 to 1998, after which it relocated to nearby Bandiana . Much of the development of the town was due to the Cudgewa railway line which opened in 1889 and closed in 1981. The line
84-848: The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , at the Tuusulanjärvi Festival, and at Festivo Aschau . From 1997 Vänskä was a pupil of Ana Chumachenco at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich where she finished her diploma in 2001. Vänskä has received high acclaim for her violin excellence, most notably the Young Soloist of the Year (1998) award by Sinfonia Lahti . Vänskä is Principal Violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra . She has performed as lead violin and soloist with
98-721: The ACO and performs on the 1726 'Belgiorno' Stradivarius violin on loan from Guido and Michelle Belgiorno-Nettis. Vänskä performed as orchestra leader and soloist in the 2018 London production of Barry Humphries ’ Weimar Cabaret with the Aurora Orchestra at the Barbican Centre. She has appeared as soloist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Arctic Chamber Orchestra and in recital at the Sydney Opera House and
112-692: The Beyond. Vänskä is married to violinist and artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti . Finnish Australian Finnish Australians ( Finnish : Australiansuomalaiset ) are Australian citizens of Finnish ancestry or Finland -born people who reside in Australia . According to Finnish estimates, there are approximately 30,000 Australians of Finnish ancestry, and about 7,500 Finland-born Finns residing in Australia. The first person from Finland to arrive in Australia
126-726: The Melbourne Recital Centre, opening their Great Performers Series in 2019. Vänskä is the director, frontwoman, violinist and vocalist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s electronic spin-off band, ‘ACO Underground’. With ACO Underground, Vänska has performed collaborations with artists that include Midnight Oil's Jim Moginie, Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie, Jonny Greenwood, Meow Meow and producer Paul Beard in venues including New York's Le Poisson Rouge and Sydney's Oxford Art Factory, and at Slovenia's Maribor Festival. In 2022, Vänska established ACO Underground: Satu in
140-575: The first assisted migrants from Europe, Baltic refugees from Germany. Assisted migrants who had not been refugees began arriving in 1951. The Australian Army had established a camp and military hospital on the site in 1940 as Albury-Wodonga was considered strategically important during the Second World War. Initially the army provided transport and security services to the migrant centre. The camp at Bonegilla closed in 1971 by which time some 320,000 migrants from over 30 countries had spent time there. It
154-545: The gold mines of Victoria in the 1850s. Years later, after the first significant wave of Finnish immigration in the 1920s, a second major wave of immigrants from the Nordic country takes place again, this being more numerous than the first one. Finns were usually hired to perform heavy physical labour. Despite this, they were particularly attracted by the income from the sugar cane fields and mining in Mount Isa , in north Queensland . As
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#1733084853250168-527: Was Herman Spöring Jr. from Turku , who was part of the first voyage of James Cook that landed on the continent in 1770. The first Finns to migrate permanently were joining the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s. More migration followed in the following decades to Queensland . In 1899, Matti Kurikka tried to establish a utopian community in Chillagoe with about a 100 Finns, though the experiment failed within
182-496: Was Australia's reinvigorated assisted passage scheme. The below table shows the number of residents in Australia that were Finnish-born or Australian-born with Finnish ancestry at different times. Bonegilla, Victoria Bonegilla is a town of the City of Wodonga local government area in north-east Victoria , Australia, ten km (6 mi) east of Wodonga , and around 300 km (190 mi) north-east of Melbourne . At
196-874: Was used both in the development of, and transporting materials for, the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the main method of transporting thousands of migrants to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre from Station Pier in Port Melbourne . The rail line has since been removed, and is now the High Country Rail Trail , a bike path linking Wodonga to Lake Hume . As part of the Post war immigration to Australia , Australia's first migrant reception centre opened at Bonegilla in December 1947 with an intake of
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