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30 October 2025 Performances

Heat and Light

The following is an excerpt from writer Neha Kale’s piece Heat and Light, published in full in the Coteau’s Circle printed program.
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21 October 2025 Music Performances

An Epic Collaboration

Created in collaboration between Richard Tognetti, BAFTA-nominated film director Jennifer Peedom and renowned author Robert Macfarlane, Mountain showcases rarely seen wild landscapes set against a live orchestral soundscape.

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07 October 2025 Music Performances

ACO 2026: Meet Le Gateau Chocolat

Get to know the opera, drag and cabaret powerhouse ahead of his ACO debut in Cocteau’s Circle, touring nationally 8 – 22 November.

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01 October 2025 Musicians

ACO 2026: Meet Trio Mediæval

Get to know the Grammy-nominated trio from Norway ahead of their Australian Chamber Orchestra debut in 2026.

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16 September 2025 Musicians

ACO 2026: Meet Pianist Dejan Lazić

Get to know piano virtuoso Dejan Lazić ahead of his return to perform music including Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini as part of our 2026 National Concert Season.

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21 August 2025 Philanthropy

ACO 50: Subscriber Stories – Susan Maxwell-Stewart

Susan Maxwell-Stewart always had a preference for indie music, until she went along to her first ACO concert in the 1990s and was blown away by the Orchestra’s ‘wild exhilarating brilliance’.
A Musical Awakening

13 August 2025 Performances

A Spectrum of Darkness and Light

ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey on music as solace in dark times.