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Brahms & Dvořák

Brahms & Dvořák
9 - 22 November 2019
An exuberant Season finale. Tickets from $49

"Zeal and intensity ... The highlight was a ravishing account of Dvořák's richly textured penultimate symphony" - The Australian

"A brilliant and wide-ranging concert ... Beauty personified" - Limelight

The final concert in our National Tour Season is a big, exuberant celebration. The ACO will more than triple in size to perform masterpieces by two of the Romantic era’s most beloved composers: contemporaries and close friends Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák.

Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve will take centre stage in Brahms’ vast and brilliant Double Concerto, their first performance of the work in eleven years. Tognetti will then lead the Orchestra through one of the most glorious symphonies of the nineteenth century, Dvořák’s Symphony No.8.

Opening the concert is the World Premiere of Australian composer Andrew Ford’s Fanfare for Neverland Solo Trumpet, which paves the way for the Australian premiere of Gran Turismo, a flamboyant, high-octane work to be performed by eight virtuoso violinists of the ACO.

Don’t miss this explosive finale to the ACO’s 2019 Season.

Program Detail

Andrew Ford – Fanfare for Neverland (World Premiere) Solo trumpet
2:00
ANDREW NORMAN – Gran Turismo - Australian Premiere
8:00
BRAHMS – Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor ‘Double Concerto’
34:00
DVOŘÁK – Symphony No.8 in G major
36:00
CONCERT duration
120 mins (incl interval)
Concert program
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Brahms & Dvořák
Join us 45 minutes before the performance to learn about the concert from a music expert.

Sun 10 Nov, 1:45pm


Mon 11 Nov, 6:45pm


Tue 12 Nov, 6:45pm


Thu 14 Nov, 6:45pm


Sat 16 Nov, 6:15pm


Tue 19 Nov, 7:15pm


Wed 20 Nov, 6:15pm


Fri 22 Nov, 12:45pm


Sun 17 Nov, 1:15pm


Mon 18 Nov, 6:15pm


Sat 9 Nov, 7:15pm


Artists

ACO Artistic Director Richard Tognetti

Richard Tognetti AO

Director & Violin

Richard Tognetti is Artistic Director and Lead Violin of the ACO. He has established an international reputation for his compelling performances and artistic individualism.

Richard has appeared as director or soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. He was Artistic Director of Slovenia’s Festival Maribor from 2008 to 2015 and the first Artist-in-Residence at the Barbican Centre’s Milton Court in 2016. In addition, he has curated and co-composed film scores including the ACO’s Mountain.

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Tipi

Timo-Veikko Valve

Cello

Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the ACO in 2006. He is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians of his generation performing as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader on both modern and period instruments, and regularly performs as a soloist with the ACO.

Composers

Composer Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist and conductor who, whilst deeply rooted in classical tradition, was a giant of the Romantic era. A total perfectionist, Brahms destroyed many of his early works, but went on to compose symphonies, concertos, vocal, chamber and piano works that have had an immense influence on other composers.
Composer Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was one of the Czech republics most prolific composers, and the first Bohemian composer to receive recognition around the world. Dvořák was influenced by the fold music of Motavia, and employed its rhythms and themes to create a trademark sound.
Composer Andrew Ford

Andrew Ford

Andrew Ford is an Australian composer, writer and broadcaster. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and was winner of the 2004 Paul Lowin Prize. He has written prolifically about music, and since 1995, has presented The Music Show on ABC Radio.
Composer Andrew Norman

Andrew Norman

Andrew Norman is an American composer who the Los Angeles Times called “the leading American composer of his generation”. A runner-up for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music, his work draws on an eclectic mix of sounds and performance practices, and is deeply influenced by his training as a pianist and violist as well as his lifelong love of architecture.
ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko 'Tipi' Valve
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