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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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haYdn Symphony No.49, “La passione” dean Electric Preludes* (Australian Premiere) MoZart Violin Concerto No.3 MoZart Symphony No.25

richard tognetti Director & Violin

tue 5 Feb 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

* Brett Dean’s Electric Preludes has been commissioned for Richard Tognetti, the ACO and Festival Maribor by Jan Minchin.

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The opportunity to hear Richard Tognetti perform one of Mozart’s enchanting, theatrical violin concertos is not to be missed. Tognetti’s Mozart recordings have been singled out by critics internationally as arguably the best on offer.

Mozart’s Symphony No.25 is the dramatic opening music in the film Amadeus and was inspired by Haydn’s thrilling Sturm und Drang symphonies, such as No.49.

Australian composer Brett Dean received one of the world’s most prestigious composition prizes, the Grawemeyer Award, for his violin concerto, so we await his electric violin concerto for Richard Tognetti with much anticipation.

“Tognetti and his fellow musicians bring this music

to life in ways I hadn’t previously imagined.”

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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

tue 7 May 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

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

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.

tue 18 Jun 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

“fearless player” New York Times

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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

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.

tue 23 Jul 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

“sheer fun of music making”

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“born story-teller” Concertonet

Bach Canons on a Goldberg Ground, BWV1087nancarroW Two Canons for UrsulaIves Concord Sonata (excerpts)BrahMs Piano Quintet

richard tognetti Director & Violin satu vänskä Violin christopher Moore Viola timo-veikko valve Cello Jeremy denk Piano

tue 13 aug 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

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Brahms’ Piano Quintet, both powerful and tender, is one of the masterworks of 19th-century chamber music, almost symphonic in its breadth and depth.

Known for sharp, vibrant performances of programs that are anything but conventional, Jeremy Denk is America’s most communicative pianist, as a writer, programmer and, most importantly, performer. He is able to take some of the most complex music written and make it sing. Together we will explore Bach and Nancarrow canons.

Denk describes Ives’ Concord Sonata as “one of the most profoundly nostalgic and tender projects in all of music.” It is this American pianist’s calling card, vividly portraying the idealism, strength, hope, and fierce individuality inherent in the American ethos.

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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

tue 22 oct 8pm Adelaide Town Hall

“Unrivalled intensity”The Guardian

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picTuRe cRediTs: Outside and front inside covers Jamie Williams; Page 1 Helen White; Page 2 Greg Gorman (Barry Humphries) and Harmony Nicholas (Meow Meow); Page 3 Christine Schneider; Page 4 Marco Borggreve; Page 5 Michael Wilson; Page 6 Satoshi Aoyagi.

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choose 3 PacKaGesAvailable from December 5 Design your own mini-subscription package. Choose any 3 concerts from the 2013 season and save up to 16%.

sInGLe tIcKetsAvailable from December 5 early bird offer: Book tickets before 14 January 2013 and receive 5% off full price adult tickets. under 30’s: Under 30 year olds can buy the best available seats for $45, (excluding Sydney Dance Company). student rush: Full time student card holders can buy $20 tickets from the venue on the day of the performance.

Web: aco.com.au Phone: 1800 444 444 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm) Booking Form: mailed to PO Box R21, Royal Exchange NSW 1225

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

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14 – 24 novCanberra, Melbourne, Newcastle & Sydney

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

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

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11 – 13 octMelbourne & Sydney

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