For the 2024 TarraWarra Festival, Richard Tognetti and the ACO will perform a unique suite of concerts in the central gallery of TarraWarra Museum of Art.
The Orchestra and audience will be surrounded by Systems and Structures, an exhibition featuring significant works from the Museum’s collection by artists, including Howard Arkley, Lesley Dumbrell, Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Hunter, Hilarie Mais, John Nixon and Robert Owen, who each explore geometry, seriality, repetition, and systematic parameters as a key element in their artistic processes.
In the adjacent gallery SUPERsystems: Peter Atkins and Dana Harris will feature major new works by two of Australia’s leading contemporary practitioners. For Dr. No (after Maurice Binder), 2020–2023, Peter Atkins deconstructed the animated opening sequence for the first James Bond film down to individual frames and then painted exact replicas of each high-keyed geometric abstract composition. Initiated during the long lockdowns in Melbourne, Dana Harris’s fancywork, 2020–2023, comprises of intricately hand-embroidered panels based on the artist’s daily excursions walking through and mapping the largely deserted urban landscape of the inner city.
Also on show will be The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore—The Harris/Atkins Collection. Featuring an extensive group of individual pieces by one of the key figures of Australian modernist design, this outstanding collection will reveal Meadmore’s remarkable ability to manipulate the most basic materials such as steel rod, cotton cord, sheet metal, canvas and thin plywood into functional, innovative and durable objects.
PROGRAM
One hour, no interval.
Leaves of an Unwritten Diary: Dessner, Bach, Sufjan Stevens
Richard Tognetti Director & Violin
Stefanie Farrands Viola
Australian Chamber Orchestra
JS BACH (arr. strings) Kanon zu acht Stimmen, BWV1072
JS BACH (arr. strings) The Art of Fugue: Fuga a 3 Soggetti (unfinished)
PAUL HINDEMITH Trauermusik
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI Leaves of an Unwritten Diary
SUFJAN STEVENS (arr. Michael Atkinson) Suite from Run Rabbit Run
90 minutes, with interval.
Brahms Violin Concerto
Richard Tognetti Director & Violin
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Maxime Bibeau Double Bass
Australian Chamber Orchestra
TOM COULT Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe) Australian Premiere
IDA MOBERG Stillness
FRANZ SCHUBERT (arr. Dobrinka Tabakova) Arpeggione Sonata in A minor
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Three Nocturnes for Solo Double Bass: Nos. 1 and 2 Australian Premiere
JOHANNES BRAHMS (arr. strings) Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Masterclass: Wolf and Purcell
Helena Rathbone and ACO Collective present a workshop featuring the music of Hugo Wolf and Henry Purcell.
One hour, no interval.
Serenades and Suites: Purcell, Elgar, Grieg
Richard Tognetti Director & Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Featuring ACO Collective directed by Helena Rathbone
HUGO WOLF Italian Serenade*
HENRY PURCELL Fantasia on One Note*
ERWIN SCHULHOFF (arr. strings) Five Pieces for String Quartet: Selections
EDWARD ELGAR Sospiri
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4: Selections
EDVARD GRIEG Holberg Suite
* Performed by ACO Collective
We are looking forward to returning to the beautiful Wurundjeri Country of the Victoria’s Yarra Valley for a weekend of music and art, set against breathtaking views.
