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Internationally renowned for inspired programming and the rapturous response of audiences and critics, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is a product of our country’s vibrant, adventurous and enquiring spirit. In performances across Australia, around the world and on many recordings, the ACO moves hearts and stimulates minds with repertoire spanning six centuries and a vitality and virtuosity unmatched by other ensembles.

Richard Tognetti has been Artistic Director and Lead Violin since 1989. Under his inspiring leadership, the ACO performs as a flexible and versatile “ensemble of soloists”, on modern and period instruments, as a chamber group, symphony orchestra and electro-acoustic collective. The ACO’s unique artistic style encompasses masterworks of the classical repertoire, innovative cross-artform projects and a vigorous commissioning program.

Several of the musicians perform with spectacularly fine instruments by history’s finest makers, including Stradivarius, Guarneri del Gesù, Guadagnini and A.E. Smith.

Fifty-three international tours across Asia, Europe and the USA have drawn outstanding reviews for the ACO’s performances at the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein.

The ACO has 40 CDs and DVDs for sale at aco.com.au/shop, including the three-time ARIA Award-winning Bach CDs and the internationally acclaimed Mozart Violin Concertos and Grieg recordings.

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“The finest string ensemble on the planet.”

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AlIcE IN chAINS Them Bones BAch Sonata No.1, BWV1001: Fugue BEEthOvEN String Quartet, Op.130: Cavatina cRuMB Black Angels (excerpts)dEAN Electric Preludes: PeripeteiaGRANdAGE/AtKINS Immutable KIlAR OrawalIGEtI RamificationsPIGRAM Raindancing, MimiRAchMANINOv Vocalise RAMEAu Les Boréades: Les VentsSEEGER Where Have All the Flowers GoneShOStAKOvIch Chamber Symphony, Op.110a: Allegro MoltotOGNEttI/GRANdAGE BeyondtOGNEttI Heart of The Black Beast, Bathymetry Arrangements by Tognetti and GrandageFootage by Mick Sowry and Jon Frank projected onto a screen on stage. Concept by Richard Tognetti.

Richard tognetti Director & Violin Mick Sowry Director & Producer Jon Frank Director of Photography derek hynd Director of Surfing Mark Atkins Didgeridoo Stephen Pigram Voice & Guitar Satu vänskä Violin & Voice Julian thompson Cello

In May, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the desert meets the sea. They spent two unforgettable weeks surfing, making music and filming and the result is The Reef.

Immerse yourself in Jon Frank’s images of the ocean, the world’s best fin-free surfers, the arid desert landscape and the starry sky, as an incredible array of music swirls around you. It will alter your perception of a classical music concert through the prism of a transcendental surf film. You’ll never forget it.

Fri 22 Feb 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

“It’s a virtuosic display...Technique, fearlessness, grace: the analogy between surfers and musicians

needs little elaboration.” The Australian

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WEIll Surabaya Johnny; Benares Song hOllÄNdER Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It) And music by EISLER, KRENEK, BRANDT, GROSZ, TOCH, SCHULHOFF, SEIBER and SPOLIANSKY

Richard tognetti Director & Violin Barry humphries Conférencier Meow Meow Cabaret artist Satu vänskä Violin & Voice

Wed 1 May 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

Presented by BNP Paribas

B A R R Y h u M P h R I E S & M E O W M E O W

Barry Humphries selects, presents and performs music from the Weimar Republic, a time between the World Wars where German art and music leaked into the basements of an increasingly loose Berlin society. Transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow joins us for the racier numbers, including a duet with Humphries.

An aficionado of the art and music of this turbulent era, Barry Humphries has curated a concert that rediscovers the lost music of Krenek, Schulhoff, Toch, Brandt and Grosz, alongside familiar songs from The Threepenny Opera and Marlene Dietrich’s 1930 cult film The Blue Angel.

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“Cabaret diva of the highest order.”

New York Post

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“The greatest performer in Australian history.”

The Spectator Australia

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vIvAldI Concerto for two cellos, RV531 RAutAvAARA The Fiddlers StRAvINSKY Concerto in D vIvAldI Cello Concerto RV413 in G hANdEl Concerto Grosso No.11 in A BlOch From Jewish Life BARtÓK Divertimento

AcO2 Richard tognetti Director & Violin daniel Müller-Schott Cello timo-veikko valve Cello

ACO2 embarks on its first national tour, led by Richard Tognetti and our principal musicians and starring some of Australia’s finest emerging string players.

Featuring several of the greatest works for string orchestra, this program showcases ACO2’s virtuosity and vivacity, in high-octane Baroque and neoclassical music.

We also celebrate the Australian return of “magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott,” (New York Times) performing two Vivaldi Cello Concertos and Bloch’s intensely melancholic From Jewish Life. He will spar with our own principal cellist Timo-Veikko Valve in Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos.

Mon 17 Jun 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

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“fearless player” New York Times

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madeleine Boud and Thomas BRadley

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RAMEAu Excerpts from Les Fêtes d’Hébé; Hippolyte et Aricie; Platée; Les Boréades; Les Indes galantes; Pigmalion; Dardanus; Naïs; Castor et PolluxBAch Violin Partita No.1 in B minor, BWV1002, SarabandevIvAldI The Four Seasons, Summer: PrestovIvAldI Sinfonia “La Verita in cimento”, Andante

Sydney dance company Richard tognetti Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela Artistic Director & Choreographer

We share the stage with the Sydney Dance Company in this production by Rafael Bonachela and Richard Tognetti, sparked by their mutual passion for Rameau’s perfumed and powerful French Baroque dance music.

Rameau’s flair for rhythm and melody, and feeling for choreography, leads many to name him one of the greatest-ever composers for the theatrical stage. Bonachela’s dynamic choreography, innate musicality and theatricality serve to illuminate this brilliant music.

thu 11 Jul 7.30pm, Fri 12 Jul 7.30pm, Sat 13 Jul 2pm & 7.30pm QPAC Playhouse (Presented with QPAC)

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

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BAch Concerto for three violins, BWV1064 MOZARt Adagio and FugueGINAStERA Concerto for stringsMENdElSSOhN Violin Concerto in D minor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Guest Director & Violin

Mon 29 Jul 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

“sheer fun of music making”

Limelight

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A free spirit who approaches music with an unquenchable sense of fun and discovery, Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a joy to play with and watch.

Patricia performs Bach and Mendelssohn violin concertos and a haunting work by Argentinian composer Ginastera, featuring solos for five principal musicians.

Trust this enchanting violinist with your ears and she’ll lead you a merry dance, bare feet and all.

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B R A h M S 4& S t E v E N I S S E R l I S

The Fourth is Brahms’ final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a constantly evolving drama.

Brahms premiered the symphony with a small orchestra of forty-eight musicians, which he declined to augment. We follow his lead and perform with wind instruments from Brahms’ time.

Steven Isserlis is one of our favourite collaborators – the epitome of the intelligent and passionate cellist. There could be no better soloist for Dvořák’s ardent and much-loved concerto. Isserlis first played it as a child. “I used to think it was so joyous,” he says. “As I’ve got older, the more tragic it seems.”

dvOŘÁK Cello Concerto BRAhMS Symphony No.4

Richard tognetti Director & Violin Steven Isserlis Cello

Mon 28 Oct 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

“Unrivalled intensity”The Guardian

sTeven isseRlis

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Richard tognetti Director & Violin

Begin the festive season with the most celebrated music of the Baroque, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

To perform this extroverted, colourful music, we’re assembling a remarkable ensemble of Baroque specialists from around the world. Richard Tognetti, winner of three ARIA Awards for Bach recordings, directs.

tue 3 dec 8pm QPAC Concert Hall

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“Not just one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

Absolutely the greatest. Any doubts about the status of Johann Sebastian

Bach were banished by the ACO’s program.”

Adelaide Advertiser

BAch Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4

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B R A N d E N B u R Gc O N c E R t O S

three extraordinary events which combine different artforms and media, with a range of musical genres.

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11-13 JulDetails on page 4

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20 Jul – 3 AugAdelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney & Wollongong

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11 – 13 JulBrisbane

12 – 14 SepCanberra

ANdREAS SchOll SINGS vIvAldI Presented by Transfield

3 – 9 OctMelbourne, Sydney, & Wollongong

thE REEFPresented by IBM

22 Feb – 4 MarBrisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney & Wollongong

RIchARd tOGNEttI’S MOZARtPresented by Virgin Australia

2 – 16 FebAdelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

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13 – 26 JunAdeliade, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle & Sydney

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23 Apr – 8 MayAdelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

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12 – 26 AugAdelaide, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney & Wollongong

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19 – 29 OctAdelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

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AcO+ PAcKAGE Available nowThree cross-artform concerts, see page 8 for details. The Reef | Barry Humphries | Sydney Dance Company

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New York Times, 2012

Outside and front inside covers, and page 7 Jamie Williams; Page 1 Jon Frank; Page 2 Greg Gorman (Barry Humphries) and Harmony Nicholas (Meow Meow); Page 3 Christine Schneider; Page 4 Justin Ridler; Page 5 Marco Borggreve; Page 6 Satoshi Aoyagi.