ACO Academy Program 2017

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PRESENTING PARTNER

14 JULY 2017, 6.30PM CITY RECITAL HALL

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“Thank you so much for the most wonderful experience you gave our daughter. She learnt so much in the week and was so inspired and excited to perform with the ACO. We had never seen her practice so hard!”

Kevin and Namiko Su, Sydney ACO Academy offers an inspirational week of intensive workshops with ACO tutors for top-level secondary students who play violin, viola, cello or double bass.

Students work with ACO musicians to hone their skills in technical accuracy and learn about the ACO’s unique style and interpretation. They build confidence in communicating physical and emotional energy to engage and inspire audiences.

Students get to see behind-the-scenes at the ACO, and also have the opportunity to chat with ACO musicians who share valuable information and advice on careers in music performance and management.

The week includes: • Chamber orchestra rehearsals focusing on ensemble, technical accuracy, interpretation, and style; • Chamber music tutorial sessions; • Presentations by ACO musicians and staff on careers and pathways in music; and • A free public concert.

If you or someone you know would like to be a part of next year’s ACO Academy, visit aco.com.au/academy to find out more and how to apply.

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AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

MESSAGE FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR Investing in the next generation of Australian musicians is at the very heart of the ACO’s National Education Program and ACO Academy is one of its crowning achievements. Every July school holiday since 2012, the ACO has conducted this week-long Academy for school-aged string players, under the leadership of Aiko Goto, one of the ACO’s finest violinists. Joining her for this adventure are several ACO musicians as coaches, mentors, inspirers, and section leaders.

The journey began when 22 young musicians from all over the country were selected via YouTube auditions. What you hear this evening is the result of an intensive week of rehearsals, lessons, masterclasses and chamber music tutorials. In its six years, ACO Academy has been held in Sydney, Melbourne and, for the first time last year, in Brisbane. We are thrilled once again to return to the magnificent City Recital Hall for this performance.

We are delighted to be able to hold such events as Academy, just one part of our National Education Program. All of the ACO’s educational activities are funded by you, our supporters, donors, subscribers and friends. With generous donors who believe in music’s ability to transform lives, the ACO has been able to take music into schools in every state and territory.

I’d like to pay tribute to BNP Paribas, who for the first time this year are the presenting partner of ACO Academy. Thank you for your visionary facilitation of such a vital part of securing our country’s musical future.

I would also like to salute the Patrons of our Education Program, Marc and Eva Besen and Janet Holmes à Court for their faith in the ACO’s mission.

May their example inspire many others to contribute so we can reach more and more young people every year.

Richard Evans Managing Director Australian Chamber Orchestra

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MESSAGE FROM BNP PARIBAS, CEO On behalf of BNP Paribas, I am delighted to present ACO Academy, an inspirational week of intensive rehearsals and performances with Australian Chamber Orchestra musicians for outstanding primary and secondary school string players.

Our support of the ACO over the last 11 years has been a natural fit because we share many common goals: to lead our respective fields by being innovative, energetic and committed.

Commitment is something we hold in great esteem at BNP Paribas and we are very proud of our 135-year history supporting the local Australian economy and the aspirations of our clients. We are now investing in the next generation of Australian musicians.

The BNP Paribas Foundation has been engaged in major philanthropic initiatives for over 30 years, focussing our activities across three main fields: the Arts, Social Inclusion and the Environment. We approach our philanthropic partnerships in the same way we approach business: we nurture close collaboration to fully understand our partners’ needs and provide long-term support.

We trust that you will enjoy this performance by some of the finest young musicians in the country.

James Gibson Chief Executive Officer BNP Paribas Australia & New Zealand

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PROGRAM Aiko Goto Leader & Violin Vincent Lo Cello

VIVALDI L’Olimpiade, RV725: Sinfonia

HAYDN Divertimento for Cello and String Orchestra in D major

SUK Serenade for Strings in E-flat major, Op.6

MUSICIANS ON STAGE

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Aiko Goto Leader & Violin *

Violin Natalie Kendy Matthew Lau Jasmine Milton Rena Mori Yasmin Omran John Paterson Ariana Ricci Emily Su Edward Walton Anica Wong Grace Wu Candice Yang

Chair sponsored by Anthony & Sharon Lee Foundation

Liisa Pallandi Violin * Chair sponsored by The Melbourne Medical Syndicate

Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba Violin * # Nicole Divall Viola * Chair sponsored by Ian Lansdown

Nathan Greentree Viola # Melissa Barnard Cello * Chair sponsored by Martin Dickson AM & Susie Dickson

Ruben Palma Cello # David Campbell Double Bass ^ Esther Kim Harpsichord

Viola Jonathan Bruhl Jeremy Egerton Emily Evans Jamie Miles Cello Isaac Davis Lucinda Machin Charlotte Miles Benett Tsai Double Bass Emily Green Sebastian Pini

* ACO # Emerging Artist Alumni ^ Sydney Symphony Orchestra

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AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

ABOUT THE MUSIC ANTONIO VIVALDI Born Venice, 1678. Died Vienna, 1741.

L’OLIMPIADE, RV725: SINFONIA I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro IV. Allegro molto

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi first revealed his love for the theatre in 1713, with the premiere of Ottone in Villa, his first known opera. For nearly 30 years after, Vivaldi travelled throughout Italy and Europe overseeing productions of his works.

Recent scholarship has identified over 45 libretti set by Vivaldi, and no less than 65 different productions, which include revivals and arrangements. These figures alone count him amongst the most prolific opera composers of his time, and though Vivaldi didn’t introduce musical innovations in his works for the stage, they nonetheless possess a unique dramatic character.

The Sinfonia from his opera L’Olimpiade sets the stage for a story that takes place during the ancient Greek Olympics, with a plot that unfolds around two close friends and competitors, both in love with women they’re forbidden from meeting. The plot becomes more and more tangled as different characters swap identities and fall in love with one another. Stories in which lovers misunderstood one another and become reconciled were enormously popular with 18th-century audiences – indeed, more than 50 composers between 1733 and 1815 would set Pietro Metastasio’s libretto for L’Olimpiade.

Musically, Vivaldi seems to be engaging in a degree of one-upmanship against his Neapolitan compositional counterparts, not only by setting a libretto by Metastasio, their favourite librettist, but by adopting some of their musical mannerisms in the process.

JOSEPH HAYDN Born Rohrau, 1732. Died Vienna, 1809.

DIVERTIMENTO FOR CELLO AND STRING ORCHESTRA IN D MAJOR I. Adagio II. Menuetto III. Allegro di molto

Joseph Haydn

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Between 1766 and 1775, while employed by Prince Nikolaus I of Esterházy, Joseph Haydn composed more than 125 trios for viola, cello and an instrument the Prince played called a baryton. The baryton is a bowed string

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instrument resembling a viola da gamba, with seven gut strings plus 16-20 wire strings that can be plucked or left to vibrate sympathetically to the bowed gut strings, enriching the tone of the instrument.

The Divertimento for cello and strings in D major was adapted from these so called “baryton trios” by the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and published in 1944.

Most of the musical material derives from Baryton Trio No.113 in D major, however, Piatigorsky’s adaptation is less a straightforward arrangement than a new work created from Haydn’s music by merging the original baryton and viola lines, then recomposing around them.

Versions of the Divertimento exist for cello or viola and piano, as well as for cello and string orchestra, which is the version presented here.

JOSEF SUK Born Krecovice, 1874. Died Benešov, 1935.

SERENADE FOR STRINGS IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP.6 I. Andante con moto II. Allegro ma non troppo e grazioso III. Adagio IV. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo presto

Josef Suk

Aged only 11, the gifted Josef Suk left his Bohemian village and signed on at the Prague Conservatory. His teachers included the famous violinist Hanus Wihan, and the rather more famous composer Antonín Dvořák. Suk’s was a remarkably successful musical career, chiefly as the second violin in the Czech (Bohemian) Quartet, with whom he played around 4,000 concerts in 40 years. He is also regarded as a major Czech composer, although interestingly this Serenade is probably his best-known work.

The Serenade was written in his final year at the Conservatory, where he had chosen to stay on for extra postgraduate study. He seems to have fallen into the earnestness that afflicts many young composers who want to be taken seriously, for Dvořák asked him to ‘produce something cheerful to give us a rest from all these eternal monuments in minor keys’. The Serenade, no doubt in part a tribute to Dvořák’s own popular work, is gorgeously sunny and must surely have fulfilled the cheerfulness requirement. Certainly, Brahms thought so; he urged his publishers to represent the work, which they did – a neat echo of Brahms’ support of Dvořák many years before.

Suk went on to become Dvořák’s son in law, and his natural successor at the Conservatory and in the historical ranks of Czech musicians.

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AIKO GOTO LEADER & VIOLIN Aiko has been a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra since 1998. The grand niece of Dr Suzuki, she began her violin training at the age of three with the Suzuki Method and studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan.

Aiko received a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York under Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki, graduating in 1994. In 1995, she made her New York debut at the Carnegie Weil Recital Hall, receiving the highest critical acclaim, and in 1997 she performed for the International Refugee Fund attended by the Japanese Royal Family. Aiko was the Coordinator of Strings at Newark School of the Arts in the USA until 1998.

She has been a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra since 1995, directed by Seiji Ozawa (leading the Saito Kinen Festival ‘gig’ in 2014). Since 2000 she has held annual solo recitals in Sydney and at the Japanese Embassy in Canberra, and in 2006 gave recitals in Tokyo for the Australia-Japan Year of Exchange.

In 2011 Aiko was invited to be Guest Director and soloist with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, and performed in ‘Concert for Japan’, raising funds for the Tohoku Japan Earthquake and Tsunami appeal. Every two years Aiko plays at Nobuko Imai’s Viola and Chamber Music Festival in Japan, and she is a member of Sydney’s Sonus Piano Quartet.

Aiko enjoys teaching and sharing her love of music with young musicians. She is a mentor for the ACO Emerging Artists Program and ACO Collective, and has tutored at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp. Aiko has directed the ACO Academy program in July annually since 2012. She also directed the ACO2 tour of Tasmania in 2012.

In August 2016, Aiko received a commendation from the Japanese Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Japan and Australia.

Aiko performs on a violin made by the French instrument maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

Chair sponsored by Anthony & Sharon Lee Foundation

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VINCENT LO CELLO Vincent has recently completed a Bachelor of Music degree, majoring in performance, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he held a merit scholarship.

Vincent began learning the cello at an early age, and under the inspiring tutelage of Georg Pedersen. He made his debut as a soloist with the Suzuki international Conference Orchestra in 2007. Since then, Vincent has performed as a soloist with the Kur-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra, the Ryde Hunters Hills Orchestra, and the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Vincent’s past achievements include the Senior Prize winner of the Ku-ring-gai Concerto Competition, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Concerto competition. Recently, Vincent won the Fine Music 102.5 Young Virtuoso Award for NSW, was the runner up in the Balmain Sinfonia Concerto Competition as well as the Alf & Pearl Pollard memorial award for performance excellence. In 2016, Vincent won the NSW Doctors Orchestra Instrumental Scholarship of the Sydney Eisteddfod. Vincent has also participated in numerous masterclasses with cellists such as Thorleif Thedeen, Josephine Knight, Tamas Vargas, Gavriel Lipkind and Steven Isserlis.

He currently studies with Umberto Clerici.  

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ACO NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM The ACO pays tribute to the Patrons of our National Education Program, which focuses on the development of young Australian musicians. These initiatives are pivotal in securing the future of the ACO and the future of music in Australia.

We are extremely grateful for the support that we receive.

If you would like to make a donation or remember the ACO with a gift in your will, or would like to direct your support in other ways, please contact Jill Colvin on (02) 8274 3835 or jill.colvin@aco.com.au PATRONS

Rowena Danziger AM & Ken Coles AM

Louise & Martyn Myer Foundation

Marc Besen AC & Eva Besen AO Janet Holmes á Court AC

Irina Kuzminsky & Mark Delaney

Jennie & Ivor Orchard

Kate & Daryl Dixon

James Ostroburski & Leo Ostroburski

EMERGING ARTISTS AND EDUCATION PATRONS $10,000+

Mr & Mrs Bruce Fink

Bruce & Joy Reid Trust

Dr Ian Frazer AC & Mrs Caroline Frazer

Mark & Anne Robertson

Mr Robert Albert AO & Mrs Libby Albert

Ann Gamble Myer

Margie Seale & David Hardy

Geoff Alder

Daniel & Helen Gauchat

Rosy Seaton & Seumas Dawes

Australian Communities Foundation – Ballandry Fund

Hilary Hall

Tony Shepherd AO

In memory of Wilma Collie

Anthony Strachan

Eureka Benevolent Foundation

Leslie C. Thiess

Di Jameson

David & Julia Turner

Miss Nancy Kimpton

Shemara Wikramanayake

Bruce & Jenny Lane

Libby & Nick Wright

Helen Breekveldt

Liz & Walter Lewin

E Xipell

Rod Cameron & Margaret Gibbs

Andrew Low

Peter Young AM & Susan Young

Michael & Helen Carapiet

Anthony & Suzanne Maple-Brown

Anonymous (3)

Stephen & Jenny Charles

Jim & Averill Minto

Steven Bardy & Andrew Patterson The Belalberi Foundation Anita & Luca Belgiorno-Nettis Foundation Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM & Michelle Belgiorno-Nettis

DIRETTORE $5,000 – $9,999

Bridget Faye AM

The Key Foundation

Peter & Victoria Shorthouse

The Abercrombie Family Foundation

JoAnna Fisher & Geoff Weir

Kerry Landman

Sky News Australia

David Maloney & Erin Flaherty

Petrina Slaytor

Jon & Cheyenne Adgemis

Angelos & Rebecca Frangopoulos

Anthony & Sharon Lee Foundation In memory of Dr Peter Lewin

Jeanne-Claude Strong

Kay Giorgetta

Lorraine Logan

Alenka Tindale

Stephen & Sophie Allen

Louise Gourlay OAM

Macquarie Group Foundation

Ivan Wheen

Peter Atkinson

Warren Green

David Maloney & Erin Flaherty

Cameron Williams

Will & Dorothy Bailey Charitable Gift

Tom & Sherry Gregory

Hamilton Wilson

Liz Harbison

Alexandra & Lloyd Martin Family Foundation

Veronika & Joseph Butta

Philip Hartog

Libby and Peter Plaskitt

Philippa & Bernard Catchpole

Annie Hawker

John Rickard

Darrel & Leith Conybeare Suellen and Ron Enestrom

Insurance Group Australia Limited

Paul Schoff & Stephanie Smee & Friends

Paul & Roslyn Espie

I Kallinikos

Greg Shalit & Miriam Faine

Geoff Ainsworth & Jo Featherstone

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Howard & Hilary Stack

Woods5 Foundation Anonymous (5)

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THANK YOU We thank our government and corporate partners, the trusts and foundations and the many generous patrons of our National Education Program who have made this performance possible.

PATRONS – NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Marc Besen ac & Eva Besen ao

Janet Holmes à Court ac

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GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

Holmes à Court Family Foundation

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The Ross Trust

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Richard Tognetti AO Artistic Director Richard Evans Managing Director Vicki Norton Education Manager Caitlin Gilmour Education Coordinator Opera Quays, 2 East Circular Quay Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box R21 Royal Exchange NSW 1225 Administration 02 8274 3800 (Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm) Email aco@aco.com.au Web aco.com.au

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