22 August 2023 Music Performances Tours
ACO: A history of collaboration
As we look down the barrel of a new collaboration with Sydney Dance Company, we reminisce about our rich history of cross-artform collaborations.
21 August 2023 Musicians News Music
ACO 2024 Season: Musicians' Highlights
Our musicians let us in on what they're most looking forward to in the ACO 2024 Season.
18 August 2023 Performances
‘You could play Bach with a bagpipe and it would still sound good.’
This September, six musicians from the Australian Chamber Orchestra will treat us to a sumptuous program of rich chamber works inspired by Italy. ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve takes us through the program, and tells us about his new arrangement of Bach’s Italian Concerto.
16 August 2023 News
Welcome to ACO 2024
A welcome message from ACO Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and ACO Managing Director Richard Evans.
25 July 2023 News Performances
ACO Academy 2023: In Pictures
It was a joy to welcome ACO Academy students to experience this intensive week of learning at ACO Pier 2/3 for the very first time.
25 July 2023 Music Musicians
How an ACO Musician practises an impossible piece
“Just looking at this gives me a migraine.”
25 July 2023 News Performances
What to expect at the ACO Pier 2/3 Total Immersion Festival
We’re inviting you to experience live music – and our ACO Pier 2/3 home – in a truly unique way.
19 July 2023 Music Performances
How the ACO is adapting a ‘Princess & the Pea’ origin story
Award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is turning the Hans Christian Andersen classic into an inspiring stage production celebrating the small things in life.
19 July 2023 News Tours
Redemption and Liberation
Béla Bartók has long been seen as a misfit, and his work as too difficult. But really listening to his music reveals it as intelligent, joyous and – rare for his era – deeply humane.
12 July 2023 News
Michael Caton reads Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Join film, television and theatre star, Michael Caton for a reading of this touching story about friendship and precious memories written by Mem Fox and Illustrated Julie Vivas.
06 July 2023 Music Musicians Performances
ACO musicians on the uniquely visceral music of Bartók
“His music often takes on a highly intoxicating and enchanting dance-like character.”
05 July 2023
A portrait of ACO Violin Aiko Goto
When ACO Violin Aiko Goto arrived on a scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York, she could not speak English. Now she leads yearly workshops with groups ACO Academy students with boundless energy.
04 July 2023 Music News
Mem Fox on ACO's Wilfrid: 'I swallowed tears three times'
The Australian children's book author shares the real life story behind Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, and let's us in on why the Australian Chamber Orchestra adaptation of the popular book moved and surprised her unexpectedly.
23 June 2023 Performances Tours
Meet the characters in Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
’Mrs Jordan who played the organ’, ‘Mr Tippett who was crazy about cricket’ and other colourful characters are part of Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’s beloved Wilfrid world.
20 June 2023 Performances Tours
The joy of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge as theatre
“If even one child leaves with a grin on their face, I know I’ve done something truly amazing.” The actors and musicians behind our award-winning show share their experiences of bringing Mem Fox's beloved book to life.
