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ACO at 50: Subscriber Stories – Norma Disher Hawkins
102-year-old Sydneysider Norma Disher Hawkins reveals her favourite ACO concert, why her love of live music has endured and her first impressions of Richard Tognetti.
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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.
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Interview with ACO Principal Viola Stefanie Farrands
Reich's Different Trains, the unique experience of performing in The Neilson concert hall at ACO On The Pier, and what it's like to play with Richard Tognetti in the Australian Chamber Orchestra's 50th Anniversary year.
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How an ACO Musician practises an impossible piece
“Just looking at this gives me a migraine.”
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Nigel Westlake Interview: Nothing But the Song
Profound personal loss led composer Nigel Westlake to think of music as a vessel for love and human communication. Interview by Eileen Chong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ACO musicians on the uniquely visceral music of Bartók
“His music often takes on a highly intoxicating and enchanting dance-like character.”
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