The annual festival at the TarraWarra Museum of Art featuring the ACO will feature performances from the Orchestra set amongst an exhibition by the remarkable Melbourne-based artist Peter Booth.
We are looking forward to returning to Victoria’s spectacular Yarra Valley for a weekend of music, art and wine, set against some of the most breathtaking views Victoria has to offer.
Festival packages include three concerts and entry to an intimate ACO masterclass, plus refreshments.
Performance Schedule:
12.30pm Saturday 25 Feb | Program 1 – Wanderers of the Night
6pm Saturday 25 Feb | Program 2 – The Monkey Mountains
11am Sunday 26 Feb | Workshop
2.30pm Sunday 26 Feb | Program 3 – From New York to Northern Lights
Program 1 – Wanderers of the Night
To open the festival, we take a daylight view of twilight hours, with music from the Baroque to the present day inspired by nighttime. Joined by soprano Chloe Lankshear and lutenist Simon Martyn-Ellis, the Orchestra will showcase a kaleidoscope of sounds from evening’s revelry to the calm of dawn. Led by Richard Tognetti.
Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Chloe Lankshear Soprano
Australian Chamber Orchestra
PROGRAM
JOHN WILLIAMS Images: VIII. Blood Moon
TARQUINIO MERULA Hor ch'è tempo di dormire
THOMAS ADES The Four Quarters: Nightfalls
JUAN ARANES Chacona a la vida bona
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Goldberg Variations: Selections
OSVALDO GOLIJOV Three Songs for Soprano: Lua Descolorida
BELA BARTOK Duos: Selections
RICHARD STRAUSS (arr. strings) Morgen
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise": IV. Finale
Program 2 – The Monkey Mountains
Richard Tognetti leads the Orchestra in a selection of string masterworks. The first half of the concert features the ACO’s performance of two movements from Fanny Mendelssohn’s energetic, finely crafted String Quartet, alongside Richard’s own arrangement for strings of Pavel Haas’ String Quartet No.2, Op.7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains'. In the second half, we head to Bohemia, with music by Suk and Dvořák.
Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra
PROGRAM
FANNY MENDELSSOHN (arr. strings) String Quartet in E-flat major: I. Adagio ma non troppo, II. Allegretto
PAVEL HAAS (arr. Richard Tognetti) String Quartet No.2, Op.7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains'
JOSEF SUK Meditation on old Bohemian Chorale ‘St Wenceslas’
ANTONIN DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.22
Workshop
Timo-Veikko Valve leads an ensemble of musicians from the ACO and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in preparation for this afternoon’s concert.
PROGRAM
JAAKKO KUUSISTO Wiima, Op.27
Program 3 – From New York to Northern Lights
The final festival concert features the new generation of musicians and composers, as five string players from ANAM join musicians from the ACO. The all-contemporary program juxtaposes music from America – and in particular from New York – full of energy and verve, alongside more serene sounds from Iceland and Finland. The concert is directed by the ACO’s very own Finnish Principal Cello, Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve.
Timo-Veikko Valve Director and Cello
Musicians from Australian Chamber Orchestra
Musicians from Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
PROGRAM
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst
KAIJA SAARIAHO Nocturne
ANNA THORVALDSDÓTTIR Illumine
NICO MUHLY (arr. strings) Diacritical Marks: Selections
JAAKKO KUUSISTO Wiima
CAROLINE SHAW Limestone and Felt
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS (arr. strings) nyepi
MISSY MAZZOLI (arr. strings) You Know Me From Here
