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A portrait of ACO Violin Aiko Goto
When ACO Violin Aiko Goto arrived on a scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York, she could not speak English. Now she leads yearly workshops with groups ACO Academy students with boundless energy.
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Michael Caton reads Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Join film, television and theatre star, Michael Caton for a reading of this touching story about friendship and precious memories written by Mem Fox and Illustrated Julie Vivas.
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ACO musicians on the uniquely visceral music of Bartók
“His music often takes on a highly intoxicating and enchanting dance-like character.”
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How the ACO is adapting a ‘Princess & the Pea’ origin story
Award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is turning the Hans Christian Andersen classic into an inspiring stage production celebrating the small things in life.
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Redemption and Liberation
Béla Bartók has long been seen as a misfit, and his work as too difficult. But really listening to his music reveals it as intelligent, joyous and – rare for his era – deeply humane.
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How an ACO Musician practises an impossible piece
“Just looking at this gives me a migraine.”
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ACO Academy 2023: In Pictures
It was a joy to welcome ACO Academy students to experience this intensive week of learning at ACO Pier 2/3 for the very first time.
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Welcome to ACO 2024
A welcome message from ACO Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and ACO Managing Director Richard Evans.
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‘A huge delight’: Matthew Truscott on ACO Collective
The British violinist introduces the music he has programmed for ACO Collective to perform at ACO Pier 2/3, and around New South Wales and Queensland, this September.
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‘You could play Bach with a bagpipe and it would still sound good.’
This September, six musicians from the Australian Chamber Orchestra will treat us to a sumptuous program of rich chamber works inspired by Italy. ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve takes us through the program, and tells us about his new arrangement of Bach’s Italian Concerto.
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