Rapture & Revolution

Richard Tognetti is Artistic Director and Lead Violin of the ACO. He has established an international reputation for his compelling performances and artistic individualism.

Richard has appeared as director or soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. He was Artistic Director of Slovenia’s Festival Maribor from 2008 to 2015 and the first Artist-in-Residence at the Barbican Centre’s Milton Court in 2016. In addition, he has curated and co-composed film scores including the ACO’s Mountain.

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The Australian Chamber Orchestra travels a remarkable road. Making waves across Australia and around the world for their explosive performances and brave interpretations, the ACO embrace celebrated classics alongside new commissions, and adventurous cross-artform collaborations.

Matisse Ruby is a Chilean/Australian writer and director from Sydney Australia. She began her career working along side some of Australia’s brightest talents such as Warwick Thornton and assisting on Del Kathryn Barton’s first short animation “Oscar Wilde’s the Nighingale and the Rose” then Associate producing ABC documentaries for Sarah Blasko and Hannah Gadsby.

Matisse’s background spent enveloped in the arts carries through into her own directing work, creating bold and yet intimate visual stories for clients such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Wunder Workshop, Gumtree and in 2018 a new philanthropy campaign for the Sydney Film Festival.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Tyson Perkins is an award-winning Aboriginal cinematographer and camera operator. Over the course of more than a decade, Tyson has garnered a wealth of experience on a diverse range of projects and has become known for his particular style, visual flair, work ethic and creativity.

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer who was strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song. He served in the First World War, and resisted the modernist tendencies of mainland Europe, forging an evocative, pastoral “British” style that is epitomised in such works as 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' and 'The Lark Ascending'.

Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer who died tragically young at the age of 31, but left behind a vast and enduringly popular body of music. He is especially famous for his Lieder (songs), his ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, chamber works and piano works, and is regarded as one of the greatest 19th-century composers.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist whose music bridged the Classical and Romantic eras. From the age of 28 his hearing declined until he was completely deaf. Despite this, he composed symphonies, concertos, sonatas and quartets to monumental acclaim. Today, Beethoven is considered one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time.