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Steven Osborne is guest expanded ACO and four exceptional singers pianist in November in an entirely Russian are joined by the Choir of Clare College, program featuring Prokofi ev, Shostakovich Cambridge, from the heart of the British and Tchaikovsky. choral tradition. Russian pianist Polina Leschenko returns Tognetti’s ongoing exploration of the links in February to perform Chopin’s Piano between the ocean and music peaks in Th e Concerto No.1 and Gorecki’s Piano Reef. Th is new fi lm and music collaboration Concerto. In the same concert, the ACO’s will be created at Ningaloo Reef in WA, Guarneri, Stradivarius and Guadagnini where the desert meets the sea, by Tognetti, violins are featured side by side in a Paganini surf photographer Jon Frank, director Mick arrangement by Tognetti. During the tour, Sowry, composer Iain Grandage, didjeridu Leschenko and ACO will record a new CD player Mark Atkins and ACO2, and staged in for the BIS record label, following rapturous Darwin, Perth, Sydney and regional WA. international acclaim for the ACO’s Mozart With Th e Reef and a tour of Tasmania, Violin Concertos release in 2011. ACO2 reaches a milestone: just 5 years after After leaving Melbourne at the age of 11 its formation, it will have toured regional to conquer the world, soprano Danielle de centres of every state in Australia. Niese returns in June a star, feted in opera Tognetti’s long-term interest in combining houses from New York to Glyndebourne, to music with other artforms also leads to the make her professional debut in the country collaboration with Sydney Dance Company, of her birth. Keen to sing an Australian and the creation of a new work based on his work, as well as Mozart and Schubert, she and Rafael Bonachela’s mutual passion for the has commissioned Carl Vine to set words by ballet music of Rameau. Patrick White. Equally adventurous is the collaboration with Th e ACO is the Orchestra in residence the Hilliard Ensemble, which delves into at four festivals in 2012: Niseko in Japan, Gregorian and Russian orthodox chant and Maribor in Slovenia, TarraWarra in Victoria medieval, renaissance and contemporary and Vasse Felix in Western Australia. vocal music. A mesmerising meeting Over 23 years, ACO fans have happily between two of the world’s best ensembles. followed Richard Tognetti on whatever Smaller in scale but equally ambitious musically adventures he might lead them. Th ey know and emotionally is a concert combining he’ll make them fall in love with new music, Schubert’s Trout Quintet and Messiaen’s musicians, cultures and places more often Quartet for the End of Time, with brilliant than he’ll play them something they shy away young Palestinian-Israeli pianist Saleem from. If you’re not already part of this band of Abboud Ashkar and clarinettist Paul Dean. adventurers, 2012 is the year to jump aboard. 2 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TOUR SIX VIENNESE SERENADE BENJAMIN SCHMID Guest Director & Lead Violin HELENA RATHBONE Violin SPEED READ BACH This program shows some of Concerto for two violins, BWV1043 the variety of Benjamin Schmid’s multifaceted musical personality — KORNGOLD everything from Bach to jazz, Lento religioso (from Symphonic Serenade) with some stops in between. The only piece in this program HK GRUBER without a specifi c Viennese Violin Concerto, “Nebelsteinmusik” connection is Bach’s Concerto for [AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] two violins although, like music in Vienna at the same moment, it owes a lot to Italy (and Vivaldi in INTERVAL particular). It’s a sublime musical conversation. SCHUBERT Korngold left Austria to seek Rondo in A, D438 fame and fortune in Hollywood, each of which he achieved in LANNER some measure, but after World Die Romantiker, Op.167 & Die Werber, Op.103 War Two his attentions were drawn again by music for the BREINSCHMID concert hall. The Symphonic Musette pour Elisabeth & Wien bleibt Krk Serenade was one of the fi rst results: lushly romantic without [AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] being remotely cheesy. Approximate durations (minutes): Like much of HK Gruber’s slightly 17 – 11 – 17 – INTERVAL – 14 – 8 – 7 – 5 – 7 dotty music, Nebelsteinmusik Th e concert will last approximately two hours including a draws on a number of infl uences 20-minute interval. (particularly jazz) but wears them lightly, in a concerto structure made up of four short BRISBANE NEWCASTLE ADELAIDE movements. QPAC City Hall Town Hall Mon 12 Sep 8pm Th u 15 Sep 7.30pm Tue 20 Sep 8pm The two or three extended pieces BRISBANE for violin and string orchestra PRESENTING PARTNER CANBERRA SYDNEY are as close as Schubert got to Llewellyn Hall Opera House a full-scale concerto. The Rondo Sat 17 Sep 8pm Sun 25 Sep 2pm is more than a mere occasional piece: it’s a stunning virtuoso MELBOURNE showpiece. SYDNEY City Recital Hall Town Hall Lanner’s waltzes Die Werber and Angel Place Sun 18 Sep 2.30pm Die Romantiker are fi ne examples Tue 13 Sep 8pm Mon 19 Sep 8pm of the beautiful late work of Wed 14 Sep 7pm the composer who, more than Sat 24 Sep 7pm any other, can be said to have invented the Viennese waltz. Pre-concert talks take place 45 minutes prior to the concerts. A central fi gure on the Viennese jazz scene, Georg Breinschmid is Th e Australian Chamber Orchestra reserves the right to alter scheduled one of Benjamin Schmid’s regular programs or artists as necessary. collaborators and his albums explore the theme of Vienna as a vibrant, modern musical city. 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MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER FREE PROGRAMS With a repertoire which eff ortlessly crosses boundaries of To save trees and money, we ask history and styles, Benjamin Schmid makes his ACO debut that you share one program in a program of music from the city of his birth. between two people where possible. While Benjamin Schmid is directing the ACO around PREPARE IN ADVANCE Australia, Richard Tognetti is directing Festival Maribor A PDF and e-reader version of in Slovenia, devising creative and unconventional the program are available at programs which look so brilliant on paper that we’re aco.com.au and on the ACO hoping to present them to audiences at home in future iPhone app one week before each tour begins, together with music seasons. A few minutes browsing through festivalmaribor. clips, videos and podcasts. si will give you an enticing glimpse into some future ACO programming. Next year, Maribor becomes HAVE YOUR SAY European Cultural Capital and the ACO is planning a We invite your feedback about this concert at strong presence in the 2012 Festival Maribor.