ACO 2025: Tarrawarra Festival

The TarraWarra Festival at TarraWarra Museum of Art will feature performances from Richard Tognetti and the ACO in the Museum’s new Eva and Marc Besen Centre. Enjoy music and fine wine, as well as access to the Museum's current exhibition, Intimate Imaginaries.

Book early for this intimate and exclusive cultural weekend. Packages and tickets to single concerts now on sale.

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Program

Saturday 1 March, 12.30pm
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI Musique funèbre: I. Prologue
BRYCE DESSNER Réponse Lutosławski
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370
EUGÈNE YSAŸE Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor, Op.27, No.3 "Ballade"
WOJCIECH KILAR Orawa

Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Diana Doherty Oboe
Satu Vänskä Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra

Saturday 1 March, 6pm
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (arr. Richard Tognetti) The Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Three Nocturnes: I. Moonrise
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (arr. strings) Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H
JS BACH (arr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Fugue in E-flat major, BWV876
JS BACH (arr. Timo-Veikko Valve) Sonata for Solo Violin No.1 in G minor, BWV1001: I. Adagio
KATE MOORE Lidy's Piece
JS BACH Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV1060
GARTH KNOX Still
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op.110a

Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Diana Doherty Oboe
Helena Rathbone Violin
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Maxime Bibeau Double Bass
Australian Chamber Orchestra

Sunday 2 March, 11am
Masterclass featuring musicians from ANAM (Australian Academy of Music), led by Helena Rathbone.

JOHANNES BRAHMS (arr. Paul Angerer) Chorale Preludes, Op.122: O Gott, du frommer Gott
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48: I. Pezzo in forma di Sonatina

Sunday 2 March, 2.30pm
JOHANNES BRAHMS (arr. Paul Angerer) Chorale Preludes, Op.122: O Gott, du frommer Gott
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48: I. Pezzo in forma di Sonatina

Helena Rathbone Director and Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra
with musicians from The Australian National Academy of Music

BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, PÄRT, VIVALDI & RICHARD TOGNETTI Mountain: Suite

Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra

About the Exhibition: Intimate Imaginaries

Intimate Imaginaries is a vibrant new show featuring 13 contemporary artists from the nationally and internationally renowned studio of Arts Project Australia, including Fulli Andrinopoulos, Samraing Chea, Alan Constable, Wendy Dawson, Bronwyn Hack, Julian Martin, Chris O’Brien, Lisa Reid, Anthony Romagnano, Mark Smith, Cathy Staughton, Georgia Szmerling and Terry Williams.

Experience an uplifting exhibition featuring over 150 ingenious, irreverent, poignant and joyful works, presented by TarraWarra Museum of Art in partnership with Arts Project Australia. Curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick.

Showing in the Yarra Valley, 30 November 2024 – 10 March 2025.

About TarraWarra Museum of Art

TarraWarra Museum of Art is a leading not-for-profit public art gallery that features inventive and stimulating exhibitions and programs about twentieth and twenty-first century art, and holds one of the country’s most important collections of Australian art from the 1930s to the present day. The permanent collection was established through the generous donation of over 600 artworks by founding patrons, the late Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO. TarraWarra actively engages with art, place and ideas in a remarkable environment and immersive atmosphere, inspiring curiosity and providing a retreat for the imagination.

In 2025 TarraWarra will launch a major new building, the Eva and Marc Besen Centre. A breathtaking architectural concept designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects with landscape design by OCULUS and Wurundjeri horticulturalist and artist Craig Murphy-Wandin, the state-of-the-art building is a multi-purpose learning and performance space for family and children’s programs, talks, forums, workshops, live arts and educational programs.

The Centre will also offer a unique behind-the-scenes look at works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Presented in visible art storage racks, the general public will have viewing access to the works of some of Australia’s most significant modern and contemporary artists.

About ANAM

*The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is internationally renowned as the only purely performance classical music training academy in Australia, and one of the few in the world.

ANAM alumni are found in many of the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles, and ANAM’s intensive schedule brings together a global network of artists and performers, alongside an esteemed Faculty, who provide mentorship and guidance for emerging young musicians through public performances, in-residence masterclasses and other programs.