ACO Music & Movement
20 Oct - 8 Dec 2025
Join us for weekly music classes designed for 2.5 – 5 year olds, expertly led and based on well-founded music education principles at our ACO On The Pier venue in Sydney’s Walsh Bay Arts Precinct.
Mountain
27 - 30 October 2025
We’re bringing back one of our most groundbreaking, award-winning and popular cinematic collaborations for a series of limited gala performances.
ACO X CLUB Weld
7 November 2025
This extraordinary event will feature neurodiverse artists from Club Weld performing alongside ACO musicians in a vibrant musical collaboration.
Derrick Gee's Radio Hour
8 November 2025
Derrick Gee’s Radio Hour lands in Sydney — a ninety-minute mix of music, wit, and conversation, reimagining classic radio with fresh energy and intimacy.
Cocteau’s Circle
8 - 22 November 2025
Join us on an adventure to Paris as we close our 50th Anniversary National Concert Season with a night of celebration and surprise.
Bach Akademie Australia: The Complete Brandenburg Concertos
15 - 16 November 2025
Bach Akademie Australia presents all six Brandenburg Concertos in one concert.
Seckou Keita: The Hendrix of the Kora
21 November 2025
Experience kora virtuoso Seckou Keita, a luminary amongst African traditional musicians, perform a mesmerising mix of captivating melodies, joyous rhythms, uplifting vocals and contemplative instrumentals.
Celebrating the Australian Chamber Orchestra
21 November 2025
Fifty years of transcending boundaries and redefining music.
Freedman Jazz 25
22 November 2025
Hear the future of Australian jazz. The Freedman Fellowship presents a concert featuring performances by finalists for this years award, all vying for a career changing opportunity.
ACO Up Close: Le Gateau Chocolat in Raw Cacao
25 November 2025
Stepping aside from their mainstage show with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Le Gateau Chocolat comes at us at his most delicious. This is Raw Cacao.
ACO Up Close: Timo-Veikko Valve & AYO Momentum Ensemble
28 November 2025
ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve leads AYO Momentum Ensemble in a lush program for cello and strings, masterfully intertwining his Finnish heritage and his Australian experience.
Omega Ensemble: Rare Sugar
29 November 2025
Omega Ensemble presents a foot-tapping season finale featuring Nigel Westlake’s virtuosic Rare Sugar, Béla Bartók’s innovative Contrasts and a world premiere by new Australian voice Ella Macens.
Sophie Hutchings: Become the Sky
12 December 2025
ARIA winning composer and pianist Sophie Hutchings performs her latest album, the contemplative Become the Sky.
ACO Families: Carols on the Pier
18 - 22 December 2025
Celebrate the festive season with world-class classical music and all your favourite carols in a magical holiday experience for the whole family.
ACO On Demand
Rent individual ACO StudioCasts films, via our official streaming platform, ACO On Demand.
The Four Seasons Film
We are thrilled to be releasing our ACO StudioCast film, The Four Seasons, on ACO On Demand.
LP/CD Beethoven & Brahms: Concertos for Violin and Orchestra
A landmark new album that celebrates the ACO’s remarkable legacy while also honouring Artistic Director Richard Tognetti’s extraordinary 35 years of leadership.
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2026 Season
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
5 - 18 February 2026
A musical revelation starring pianist Dejan Lazić, with a world premiere from John Luther Adams.
ACO 2026: TarraWarra Festival
28 Feb - 1 Mar 2026
Experience the Australian Chamber Orchestra at TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville, Victoria.
The Devil’s Violin
12 - 28 March 2026
Virtuoso Ilya Gringolts directs the ACO in a program that pushes the violin to its fiery limits.
Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet
14 - 30 May 2026
Richard Tognetti leads an ACO octet to celebrate the greatest of musical poets.
ACO Collective: Bach, Brahms & Pärt
19 - 29 May 2026
ACO Principal Violin Sätu Vänskä directs ACO Collective, the ACO's orchestra of Emerging Artists.
Australian String Quartet: Interwoven
20 May 2026
The Australian String Quartet's Interwoven captures the deeply human impulse to create, connect and express.
Ensemble Offspring: The Oracle
3 June 2026
Consult the oracle and experience an ancient and charismatic vision of the future with Ensemble Offspring and friends.
Isles of Light
13 - 23 June 2026
A genre-defying voyage from the pastoral majesty of Vaughan Williams to the experimental universe of Kate Bush, directed by British virtuoso Lawrence Power.
From Winter’s Stillness
25 Jul - 9 Aug 2026
Trio Mediæval and Arve Henriksen join Richard Tognetti and the ACO for a soul-stirring evocation of ancient landscapes and Northern light.
Ensemble Offspring - Reich: Rejoice: Repeat
12 September 2026
Ensemble Offspring celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday with a joyous retrospective celebrating the hypnotic power of Reich’s signature rhythmic groove.
Mozart’s Last Symphonies
19 - 25 September 2026
Experience one of the greatest chamber orchestras in the world at its joyous and inspirational best.
Pekka Kuusisto: Legends & Luminaries
3 - 19 October 2026
Singular artist Pekka Kuusisto makes his long-awaited return to direct the ACO in music that transcends age and time.
Australian String Quartet: Voyager
19 October 2026
The Australian String Quartet charts a radiant course through beauty, complexity and boundary-breaking innovation in this program of music by Knox, Bartók and Beethoven.
Beethoven’s Pastoral
12 - 25 November 2026
Richard Tognetti directs the ACO in a thrilling season finale featuring Beethoven’s epic and transportive Sixth Symphony.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
8 - 11 December 2026
Celebrate the festive season with Bach’s revelatory choral masterpiece.
ACO Collective: Sound & Sense Festival
9 - 13 December 2026
The ACO's orchestra of Emerging Artists performs at Vasse Felix’s Sound & Sense Festival in Margaret River.
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