Australian Chamber Orchestra w/ music of Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, Haas, Hollander, and Nirvana
Event on 2014-03-20 19:30:00
About This Event
Minimum Age:
All Ages
Doors Open:
6:30 PM
Show Time:
7:30 PM
Description:
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, Violin and Artistic Director
Satu Vänska, Violin and Vocals
featuring
Brian Ritchie, Guitar
Jim Moginie, Guitar
Pianist to be announced
Program:
Anthony Pateras: An Island off an Island off an Island
Richard Tognetti: Sea Drift
Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for String Quartet: movement three
Haas: String Quartet No. 2, “from the Monkey Mountains”: Cart, Driver and Horse
Hollander: Wenn ich mir was wuenschen duerfte
JS Bach (arr Tognetti): Canons on a Goldberg Ground
Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet: movement three
Cobain/Tognetti: Milk It
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8: movement two
Hassler: Lutheran hymn
NIN (arr.Tognetti): Something I can never have
Seated: advance, day of show
Standing: advance, day of show
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TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating for all seated shows is reserved exclusively for ticket holders who purchase “Table Seating” tickets. By purchasing a “Table Seating” ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seating begins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
A standing room area is available by the bar for all guests who purchase “Standing Room” tickets. Food and beverage can be purchased at the bar but there is no minimum purchase required in this area.
All tickets sales are final. No refund or credits.
Artists
Australian Chamber Orchestra
One of the world’s most lauded chamber ensembles, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is renowned for its inspired programming and unrivaled virtuosity, energy and individuality. Its unique programming extends across six centuries, spanning popular masterworks, adventurous cross-art form projects and pieces specially commissioned for the ensemble.
Founded in 1975, this string orchestra comprises leading Australian and international musicians and a growing company of dedicated young players. The Orchestra performs as a symphony orchestra, chamber music ensemble and electro-acoustic collective collaborating with an extraordinary range of artists from numerous artistic disciplines including renowned soloists Emmanuel Pahud, Steven Isserlis, Martin Fröst and Joseph Tawadros; singers Katie Noonan, Paul Capsis, Dawn Upshaw and Teddy Tahu Rhodes; and such diverse artists as cinematographer Jon Frank, visual artist Shaun Tan, entertainer Barry Humphries, photographer Bill Henson, choreographer Rafael Bonachela and cartoonist Michael Leunig.
Outstanding Australian violinist Richard Tognetti, who has been at the helm of the ACO since 1989, has expanded the Orchestra’s national program, spearheaded vast and regular international tours, injected unprecedented creativity and unique artistic style into the programming and transformed the group into the energetic standing ensemble (except for the cellists) for which it is now internationally recognized. Through the ACO’s extensive commissioning program, more than 60 chamber music works have been added to the repertoire, including pieces by Brett Dean, Jonny Greenwood and Carl Vine. Committed to Australian composition, the ACO has given 1700 performances of over 250 works by 80 Australian composers.
Several of the ACO’s players perform on remarkable string instruments. Tognetti plays the legendary 1743 Carrodus Guarneri del Gesù violin, on loan from an anonymous Australian benefactor; Principal Violin Helena Rathbone plays a 1759 Guadagnini violin owned by the Commonwealth Bank; Principal Violin Satu Vänskä plays a 1728/9 Stradivarius violin owned by the ACO Instrument Fund and Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve plays a 1729 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ cello on loan from Peter Weiss AO.
The ACO has made many award-winning recordings and has a current recording contract with leading classical music label BIS. Highlights include Tognetti’s three-time ARIA Award-winning Bach recordings, multi-award-winning documentary film Musica Surfica, the sound-track for television series Classical Destinations II and the complete set of Mozart Violin Concertos. A full list of ACO recordings can be found here.
As Australia’s only national orchestra the ACO presents outstanding performances to over 10,000 subscribers across Australia, reaching regional audiences in every state and territory. The Orchestra curate, host and perform two weekend-long chamber music festivals annually at wineries in Victoria and Western Australia, the TarraWarra Chamber Music Festival and Vasse Felix Chamber Music Festival respectively. Internationally, the ACO’s regular tours to Asia, Europe and the USA consistently receive hyperbolic reviews and return invitations to perform on the great music stages of the world including Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre and New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The ACO has visited over 250 cities in the course of 50 international tours.
In 2005 the ACO inaugurated a national education program including a mentoring program for Australia’s best young string players. These specially selected stars of the future join ACO core players to form the Orchestra’s little sister orchestra ACO2, performing bold programs in concerts and education workshops for regional audiences throughout Australia. In 2013, ACO2 performed on Australia’s major concert hall stages with celebrated German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott under the direction of Richard Tognetti.
Support the ACO’s education work and help offset the ever-increasing cost of maintaining the ACO as Australia’s finest orchestra by making a tax-deductible donation. Unlike Australia’s symphony orchestra organisations, which are generously funded with up to 70% of their costs from the government, the ACO receives less than 15% of its revenue from government sources and relies on the generosity of supporters.
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