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Vanguard’s partnership with the ACO reflects our commitment to supporting artistic excellence. Both Vanguard and the ACO have enjoyed global success and histories spanning over 30 years. Since 1976, Vanguard has maintained an unwavering commitment to providing high-quality, low-cost investments that offer the benefits of diversification. And the ACO, currently led by Richard Tognetti, has been delighting audiences for over three decades with exceptionally talented musicians and brilliant performances. On behalf of Vanguard, I am delighted to welcome you to Mozart, Handel & Vivaldi Concertos, a rousing showcase of Baroque music directed by musical firebrand Richard Egarr.
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TOUR SIX MOZART, HANDEL & VIVALDI CONCERTOS RICHARD EGARR Director, Fortepiano and Harpsichord
SPEED READ Castello, Biber, Handel, Vivaldi and Mozart…my kind of program. Spanning over 160 years, it takes us from the earliest ‘string’ Sonatas of the avant-garde Venetian composer Dario Castello written around 1620, through the wild and woolly worlds of Biber, Corelli and Vivaldi, to the deliciously amorous A major Concerto written in 1782 by the 26 year-old Mozart. Working with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on this repertoire will be a huge pleasure, as I’m sure their incredible energy and pioneering collective spirit will allow for an explosive and exhilarating musical journey. Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. — Richard Egarr
SATU VÄNSKÄ Lead Violin
CORELLI Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
CASTELLO Two Sonatas, “per stromenti d’arco”
BIBER Battalia
VIVALDI Violin Concerto, RV190 I N T E R VA L
MOZART Piano Concerto No.12 HANDEL Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1 Approximate durations (minutes): 13 – 10 – 10 – 14 – INTERVAL – 20 – 25 The concert will last approximately two hours including a 20-minute interval. ADELAIDE
NEWCASTLE
SYDNEY
Town Hall Tue 9 Oct, 8pm
City Hall Thu 18 Oct, 7.30pm
Opera House Sun 14 Oct, 2pm
CANBERRA
PERTH
Llewellyn Hall Sat 6 Oct, 8pm
Concert Hall Wed 10 Oct, 7.30pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place Sat 13 Oct,7pm Tue 16 Oct, 8pm Wed 17 Oct, 7pm
MELBOURNE Arts Centre Sun 7 Oct, 2.30pm Mon 8 Oct, 8pm
WOLLONGONG Town Hall Mon 15 Oct, 7.30pm
The Australian Chamber Orchestra reserves the right to alter scheduled artists and programs as necessary. Cover photo: Mark Ingwersen and Satu Vänskä © Jon Frank
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CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM Unfortunately Satu Vänskä is out of action this week with an injury. We are however very pleased to inform you that ACO Principal Violin Helena Rathbone has agreed to step in at short notice to lead the Orchestra in Satu’s place. We are grateful to Helena for coming to the rescue. Additionally, the Vivaldi Violin Concerto, RV190 will be replaced by the Avison Concerto Grosso No.3 in D minor, after Scarlatti (12 minutes). The revised program order is: Corelli — Castello — Biber — Avison — INTERVAL — Mozart — Handel
Charles AVISON (b. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1709 — d. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1770)
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in D minor, after Scarlatti (Composed 1744, based on keyboard sonatas by Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti)
I. Largo andante II. Allegro spiritoso III. Vivace IV. Allegro
A NOTE ON RICHARD EGARR’S INSTRUMENTS Richard Egarr will be performing on the following instruments:
Ruckers Double Harpsichord by Carey Beebe 2003 [all concerts except Perth] French Double Harpsichord by Michael Johnson 1987 [Perth concert only] Fortepiano after Stein by D. Jacques Way 1986 Early keyboards prepared by Carey Beebe [all concerts except Perth] & Colin van der Lecq [Perth concert only]
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Helena Rathbone* Lead Violin
Chair sponsored by Hunter Hall Investment Management Limited
Helena Rathbone was appointed Principal Violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 1994. Since then she has performed as soloist and Guest Leader with the ACO in Australia and overseas. In 2006 Helena was appointed Director and Leader of the ACO’s second ensemble AC O2, which sources musicians from the ACO’s Emerging Artists Program. Helena studied with Dona Lee Croft and David Takeno in London and with Lorand Fenyves in Banff, Canada. Before moving to Australia, she was Principal Second Violin and soloist with the European Community Chamber Orchestra and regularly played with ensembles such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. When not performing with the ACO, Helena has been leader of Ensemble 24, guest leader of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and is a frequent tutor and chamber orchestra director at National Music Camps and with the Australian Youth Orchestra. She has appeared in the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Christchurch Arts Festival, Sangat Festival in Mumbai and the Florestan Festival in Peasmarsh, Sussex. As a regular participant of the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove (Cornwall), Helena played in the IMS tour of the UK in 2007. The group, led by Pekka Kuusisto, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber music 2008. Helena performs on a 1759 J.B. Guadagnini violin, kindly made available to her by the Commonwealth Bank Group. aco.com.au/helena_rathbone
* Helena Rathbone plays a 1759 J.B. Guadagnini violin kindly on loan from the Commonwealth Bank Group.
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BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO.4 Pianist Dejan Lazic and the ACO recorded live.
MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER The Australian Chamber Orchestra is thrilled to be working for the first time with the exuberant British keyboard player Richard Egarr, Director of The Academy of Ancient Music, and we warmly welcome him.
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NEXT TOURS Russian Visions 10 — 25 November Project Rameau with Sydney Dance Company 29 October — 3 November
This year, the ACO has played in every state and territory of Australia, proudly reinforcing our commitment to be the country’s only truly national performing arts company. The realization of this vision would simply be unimaginable without the generous and steadfast support of our National Tour Partners, and for this series of concerts all around Australia this month we are most grateful to Vanguard Investments. 2012 is the fifth year of our relationship with Vanguard and their commitment to the ACO and our national aspirations has brought great music to tens of thousands of music-lovers all over the country. Recently, the ACO has returned from an exhausting but wonderfully successful European Tour, which included London, the Edinburgh Festival and an intensive 11-day residency in Maribor, Slovenia, the 2012 European Cultural Capital. Richard Tognetti has been Artistic Director of Festival Maribor for the last five years and this year’s program was designed to showcase the breadth of the ACO’s repertoire – and the sheer stamina of our musicians. They were involved in 12 different programs in 11 days, ranging across musical styles and periods. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony rubbed shoulders with The Reef, Dawn Upshaw sang Schubert, Schumann and Schoenberg, Richard premiered Brett Dean’s new concerto for electric violin and Gerry Connolly appeared as a jubilant Queen Elizabeth II. Marshal Tito would not have been amused.
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CORELLI Concerto Grosso in D, Op.6 No.1 (Composed 1714)
Largo Allegro Largo Allegro – Adagio Allegro
Arcangelo CORELLI (b. 17 Feb 1653 — d. 8 Jan 1713)
Glossary Concerto Grosso: a type of concerto in which a large group, the ‘ripieno’, alternates with a smaller group, the ‘concertino’.
After Vivaldi, the most influential composer of the Italian Baroque was Arcangelo Corelli. Born near Bologna, Corelli made his name as a violinist and composer in the employ of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome. After 1708, Corelli retired from performing and concentrated on composition, and in many respects codified what we now think of as the formal models for the Baroque concerto and sonata. Both, like opera, exploit the dramatic potential of interplay between contrasting groups (such as the concertino group of soloists and the ripieno, or accompanying, group) or the individual against the mass. An acquaintance remarked in 1711 that the composer was completing his sixth opus, but the collection was only published after Corelli’s death. Corelli made a distinction between sonatas and concertos da chiesa (church) or da camera (chamber). The first batch of concertos in Opus 6 pitch the characteristic group of two solo violins and cello against the tutti – in fact, the ripieno’s continuo bass and harmony functions can, if required, be replaced by cello and harpsichord in the manner of the Baroque sonata. These concertos are da chiesa works: this does not indicate that they were written for liturgical use, however, merely that they begin with a slow movement, and have abstract movement headings, rather than the secular dance-form titles of da camera movements.
ACO performance history Corelli’s Concerto Grosso No.1 has been performed by the ACO in three previous national tours, in 1991, 1998 and 2006. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 7
Dario CASTELLO (b. c. 1590 — d. c. 1658)
CASTELLO Two Sonatas, “per stromenti d’arco” (Composed 1629)
Cover page of a 1644 Venice publication of Castello’s second volume of sonatas.
Shawm: woodwind instrument with a double reed, ancestor of the modern oboe.
ACO performance history This will be the first time the ACO has performed Castello’s Two Sonatas.
Castello’s output consists of 29 pieces in two volumes of ‘Concerted sonatas in the modern style’ for various instruments with continuo. He is thought to have been a wind-player, though not necessarily the same as the Giovanni Castello hired as piffaro (a player of the flute and/or shawm) by the Venetian Doge in the 1620s. The volumes were first published in Venice in 1621, with frontispieces describing the composer as Dario Castello Venetiano, Capo di compagnia di musichi d’instrumenti da fiato in Venetia; when they were reprinted in Antwerp in 1658 the attribution indicated that Castello was now former head of the company of musicians. That is about the extent of what we know of his life. The Sonatas are all single-movement works that are made up of contrasting sections. As we might expect from a near contemporary of Giovanni Gabrieli, Castello produced passages of glowing homophony, offset by intricate and energetic counterpoint.
BIBER Battalia (Sonata di marche) (Composed 1673) The Bohemian-born Biber was a brilliant violinist, and though few records of his tours survive, we know that he impressed the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, at whose court Biber was based, and the Emperor Leopold I sufficiently to be ennobled in 1690.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von BIBER (b. 12 Aug 1644 — d. 3 May 1704)
ACO performance history Like Corelli’s Concerto Grosso No.1, the Biber Battalia has also been played in three previous national ACO tours, in 1992, 1995 and 2005.
The Battalia (or battle piece) was a favourite kind of program music at the time, and Biber’s, which dates from 1673, shows that he was an imaginative experimenter with instrumental sounds. He simulates snare drums by having bass players hold paper against the strings while playing hammer strokes, and firearms with strings snapped against the fingerboard. The carousing of soldiers is unmistakable in the simultaneous sounding of eight different folk tunes in various keys.
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VIVALDI Violin Concerto in C, RV190 Allegro Largo Allegro
Antonio VIVALDI (b. 4 Mar 1678 — d. 28 Jul 1741)
Born in Venice, Antonio Vivaldi died in poverty in Vienna and was buried in an unmarked grave, despite a colourful life as a renegade priest, music-master, womaniser, composer of – among other things – 500 or so concertos (of which about 250 are for his instrument, the violin), and one of the great virtuosos of all time. His music was rarely if ever played between his death and the 1930s, when musicians in Italy began rediscovering his huge and varied output of works. With the interest of music scholars like Alfred Einstein, composer Alfredo Casella and poet Ezra Pound, the revival of Vivaldi began; by the end of the 20th century he was one of the most popular and frequently performed composers. Vivaldi had enjoyed great popularity and success during his lifetime. Born in Venice in 1678 he began learning violin with his father, a professional musician. He commenced studying for the priesthood in his early teens, though this in no way would have been seen as conflicting with the expectation of a career in music. It should be noted, too, that in Vivaldi’s time one was not obliged to enter a seminary; he was, effectively, ‘apprenticed’ to an older priest and was eventually ordained. He spent most of his working life in Venice, which was, as scholar H.C. Robbins Landon puts it, “a city past its prime”, yet it maintained a rich and elaborate cultural life. A particular feature of the city was the establishment of a number of orphanages for girls that doubled as music academies. In 1703, the year he was ordained, Vivaldi began teaching at one such orphanage, the Ospedale della Pietà. The Pietà was legendary for Sunday services, where the liturgy played a distinct second fiddle to the music performed by the young orphans – hid discreetly, of course, behind a grille in the chapel.
ACO performance history This will be the first time the ACO has performed Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in C, RV190.
He was a pioneer of the solo concerto, as against the concerto grosso favoured by Corelli, and expanded violin technique beyond what was known at the time, in particular, in the use of position shifts; one contemporary describes how Vivaldi “put his fingers but a hair’s breadth from the bow, so that there was scarcely room for the bow”. He also established the three-movement fast-slow-fast design that would become standard, thanks largely to J.S. Bach’s adoption of it.
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MOZART Piano Concerto in A, K.414 (Composed 1782)
Allegro Andante Allegretto
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (b. 27 Jan 1756 — d. 5 Dec 1791)
At the end of 1782 Mozart was, in the words of biographer Maynard Solomon, “undergoing a moment of supreme, protean inspiration”. He began work on his Mass in C minor at the time, completed, with some effort, his string quartets dedicated to Haydn, and laid the foundation for the miraculous harvest of piano concertos that he would compose and perform at concerts that he himself would organise over the next two or three years. The ‘little’ A major concerto (not to be confused with the more substantial work, K.488, written three years later) was probably completed in December 1782. Mozart gave the performance at three academies – benefit concerts for himself and two artist friends – and also offered copies of the score for sale by subscription. This was financially less than rewarding and may have pushed Mozart in the direction of becoming his own entrepreneur. It meant, however, that the audience that first heard the piece was not restricted to the aristocrats at court, but included members of the fledgling paying public; those who might buy the score need not have been professional virtuosi. Mozart, accordingly, made sure the pieces had broad appeal. As he wrote to his father: “These concertos are a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult; they are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being vapid. There are passages here and there from which the connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction, but these passages are written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing why.”
tutti: in this context refers to passages in which the full orchestra plays without the soloist.
Mozart’s concertos fuse aspects of the Baroque with the Classical style, especially in the use of ritornelli – structural passages for the tutti between solo episodes. The slow movement quotes a tune by Johann Christian Bach, the London-based son of J.S. Bach, whom Mozart had met there as a child prodigy, and who had recently died.
ACO performance history Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major has been played by the ACO during national tours in 1987 and 2004. 10 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
HANDEL Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.6 No.1 HWV319 (Composed 1739)
A tempo giusto Allegro Adagio Allegro Allegro
George Frideric HANDEL (b. 23 Feb 1685 — d. 14 Apr 1759)
British composer Herbert Howells once asked Sir Edward Elgar where he learned to create such magical string textures, and was told to “go back to Handel, m’boy”. In 1706 the young Handel travelled to Italy and, in Rome, made the acquaintance of Corelli, who was, then, still in charge of music at the Cancelleria Palace, seat of Cardinal Ottoboni. Presumably, Handel was taken with the discipline of Corelli’s ensemble, which produced such lush sound, and which Handel would indeed emulate; at around the same time, Domenico Scarlatti described, with evident surprise, that Corelli insisted the players’ “bows should all move exactly together, all up, or all down…”
chiesa: Italian word for ‘church’ denoting the suitability of a work for performance in church in the Baroque period.
ACO performance history The ACO has performed Handel’s Concerto Grosso in national tours in 1990 and 2004.
Handel’s publisher, Walsh, announced in 1739 a subscription edition of Twelve grand concertos, in seven parts, for four Violins, a Tenor, a Violoncello, with a Thorough-bass for the Harpsichord. Composd by Mr Handel. These would be available after the first performances. He had composed the set at considerable speed, producing the 12 pieces between mid-September and the end of October. It has been suggested that Handel wrote his Opus 6 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Corelli’s set, although, as Jonathan Keates has put it, “they are far less specifically Corellian than those of popular London violinists”, including Geminiani. While most begin, chiesa-style, with a slowish movement, each of the concerti grossi has a unique pattern of movements, containing as few as four and as many as six. They were premiered during the notoriously cold winter of 1739-40 when the Thames filled with pack-ice and people froze to death on the streets. At the same time England’s fractious relationship with Spain also erupted in what is known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the subscription sales were not large, though Keates assures us that a group called Ladies Concerts in Lincoln purchased over a hundred copies.
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RICHARD EGARR © Marco Borggreve
DIRECTOR, FORTEPIANO & HARPSICHORD Richard Egarr brings a joyful sense of adventure and a keen, enquiring mind to all his music-making. He is equally happy conducting, directing from the keyboard or playing concerti (on organ, harpsichord, fortepiano or modern piano), giving solo recitals, playing chamber-music, and indeed talking about music at every opportunity. Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) since 2006, Egarr has further renewed his contract to 2017. AAM begins a new relationship in September 2012 as Associate Ensemble at the Barbican Centre, where plans include a cycle of Monteverdi operas. Early in his tenure Egarr established the Choir of the AAM, and operas/ oratorios lie at the heart of his repertoire; in 2010 he conducted Mozart’s opera La Finta Giardiniera in concert at the Barbican Centre and the Theatre des Champs-Elysées. He made his Glyndebourne debut in 2007 conducting a staged version of the St Matthew Passion. Egarr is a lasting inspiration to young musicians, maintaining regular relationships at the Juilliard, the Amsterdam Conservatoire, Britten Pears Foundation, and the Netherlands Opera Academy (Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito (2010), Le Nozze di Figaro (2013), and Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino in 2011). Egarr has a flourishing career as a guest conductor with orchestras ranging from the Philadelphia Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic to the Handel and Haydn Society Boston. In 2011 he was appointed Associate Artist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in recognition of his growing relationship with the ensemble. He continues to play recitals across the world, and in January 2013 plays the Bach English Suites in London and Cambridge to coincide with his latest Harmonia Mundi release. Notable amongst an impressive discography are the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier, Mozart fantasias and rondos, and the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin, also many award-winning recordings with violinist Andrew Manze. His growing list of recordings directing the AAM includes seven Handel discs (2007 Gramophone Award, 2009 MIDEM and Edison awards) and the complete Brandenburgs. Egarr trained as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. His studies with Gustav and Marie Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historical performance. Richard Egarr is represented by Intermusica. intermusica.co.uk/egarr 14 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
SATU VÄNSKÄ © Jonathan May
LEAD VIOLIN Satu Vänskä was appointed Assistant Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2004. Satu was born to a Finnish family in Japan where she took her first violin lessons at the age of three. Her family moved back to Finland in 1989 and she continued her studies with Pertti Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy. From 1997 Satu was a pupil of Ana Chumachenco at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich where she finished her diploma in 2001. In 1998 Sinfonia Lahti named her “young soloist of the year”. In 2000 she was a prize-winner of the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben” and from 2001 she played under the auspices of the Live Music Now Foundation founded by Lord Yehudi Menuhin which gave her the opportunity to perform with musicians like Radu Lupu and Heinrich Schiff. Satu performs regularly as guest director and soloist with the ACO, and features in a variety of roles at festivals with the ACO in Australia, Niseko and Maribor. Satu plays a 1728/9 Stradivarius violin owned by the ACO Instrument Fund. aco.com.au/satu_vanska
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RICHARD TOGNETTI AO © Paul Henderson-Kelly
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Australian violinist, conductor and composer, Richard Tognetti has established an international reputation for his compelling performances and artistic individualism. He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium with Alice Waten, in his home town of Wollongong with William Primrose, and at the Berne Conservatory (Switzerland) with Igor Ozim, where he was awarded the Tschumi Prize as the top graduate soloist in 1989. Later that year he was appointed Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) and subsequently became Artistic Director. He is also Artistic Director of the Maribor Festival in Slovenia.
“Richard Tognetti is one of the most characterful, incisive and impassioned violinists to be heard today.”
Tognetti performs on period, modern and electric instruments. His numerous arrangements, compositions and transcriptions have expanded the chamber orchestra repertoire and been performed throughout the world.
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As director or soloist, Tognetti has appeared with the Handel & Haydn Society (Boston), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the Australian symphony orchestras. He conducted Mozart’s Mitridate for the Sydney Festival and gave the Australian premiere of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto with the Sydney Symphony.
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Tognetti has collaborated with colleagues from across various art forms and artistic styles, including Joseph Tawadros, Dawn Upshaw, James Crabb, Emmanuel Pahud, Katie Noonan, Neil Finn, Tim Freedman, Bill Henson and Michael Leunig.
As soloist: BACH Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard ABC Classics 476 5942 2008 ARIA Award Winner BACH Violin Concertos ABC Classics 476 5691 2007 ARIA Award Winner BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas ABC Classics 476 8051 2006 ARIA Award Winner (All three releases available as a 5CD Box set: ABC Classics 476 6168) Musica Surfica (DVD) Best Feature, New York Surf Film Festival As director: VIVALDI Flute Concertos, Op.10 Emmanuel Pahud, Flute EMI Classics 0946 3 47212 2 6 Grammy Nominee PIAZZOLLA Song of the Angel Chandos CHAN 10163 All available from aco.com.au/shop.
In 2003, Tognetti was co-composer of the score for Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; violin tutor for its star, Russell Crowe; and can also be heard performing on the award-winning soundtrack. In 2005, he co-composed the soundtrack to Tom Carroll’s surf film Horrorscopes and, in 2008, co-created The Red Tree, inspired by illustrator Shaun Tan’s book. He co-created and starred in the 2008 documentary film Musica Surfica, which has won best film awards at surf film festivals in the USA, Brazil, France and South Africa. As well as directing numerous recordings by the ACO, Tognetti has recorded Bach’s solo violin repertoire for ABC Classics, winning three consecutive ARIA awards, and the Dvořák and Mozart Violin Concertos for BIS. Richard Tognetti was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2010. He holds honorary doctorates from three Australian universities and was made a National Living Treasure in 1999. He performs on a 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin, lent to him by an anonymous Australian private benefactor.
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AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ACO MUSICIANS Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin Helena Rathbone Principal Violin Satu Vänskä Principal Violin Madeleine Boud Violin Rebecca Chan Violin Alice Evans Violin Aiko Goto Violin Mark Ingwersen Violin Ilya Isakovich Violin Christopher Moore Principal Viola Nicole Divall Viola Timo-Veikko Valve Principal Cello Melissa Barnard Cello Julian Thompson Cello Maxime Bibeau Principal Double Bass Part-time Musicians Zoë Black Violin Veronique Serret Violin Caroline Henbest Viola Daniel Yeadon Cello
Australia’s national orchestra is a product of its country’s vibrant, adventurous and enquiring spirit. In performances around Australia, around the world and on many recordings, the ACO moves hearts and stimulates minds with repertoire spanning six centuries and a vitality unmatched by other ensembles. The ACO was founded in 1975. Every year, this ensemble presents performances of the highest standard to audiences around the world, including 10,000 subscribers across Australia. The ACO’s unique artistic style encompasses not only the masterworks of the classical repertoire, but innovative crossartform projects and a vigorous commissioning program. Under Richard Tognetti’s inspiring leadership, the ACO has performed as a flexible and versatile ‘ensemble of soloists’, on modern and period instruments, as a small chamber group, a small symphony orchestra, and as an electro-acoustic collective. In a nod to past traditions, only the cellists are seated – the resulting sense of energy and individuality is one of the most commented-upon elements of an ACO concert experience. Several of the ACO’s principal musicians perform with spectacularly fine instruments. Tognetti plays a 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin, on loan to him from an anonymous Australian benefactor. Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve plays on a 1729 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ cello, on loan from Peter Weiss AM. Principal Violin Helena Rathbone plays a 1759 J.B. Guadagnini violin on loan from the Commonwealth Bank Group. Principal Violin Satu Vänskä plays a 1728/29 Stradivarius violin owned by the ACO Instrument Fund, through which investors participate in the ownership of historic instruments. Fifty international tours have drawn outstanding reviews at many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
The ACO has made acclaimed recordings for labels including ABC Classics, Sony, Channel Classics, Hyperion, EMI and Chandos and currently has a recording contract with BIS. A full list of available recordings can be found at aco.com.au/shop. Highlights include the three-time ARIA Award-winning Bach recordings and the complete set of Mozart Violin Concertos. The ACO appears in the television series Classical Destinations II and the multi award-winning film Musica Surfica. In 2005, the ACO inaugurated an ambitious national education program, which includes outreach activities and mentoring of outstanding young musicians, including the formation of ACO2, an elite training orchestra which tours regional centres. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 17
MUSICIANS ON STAGE
Photos: Paul Henderson-Kelly, Helen White
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MADELEINE BOUD
REBECCA CHAN
MARK INGWERSEN
Lead Violin Chair sponsored by Robert & Kay Bryan
Violin Chair sponsored by Terry Campbell AO & Christine Campbell
Violin Chair sponsored by Ian Wallace & Kay Freedman
Violin Chair sponsored by Runge
ILYA ISAKOVICH
VERONIQUE SERRET
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
NICOLE DIVALL
Violin Chair sponsored by Australian Communities Foundation – Connie & Craig Kimberley Fund
Violin
Principal Viola Chair sponsored by Tony Shepherd
Viola Chair sponsored by Ian Lansdown
Players dressed by
AKIRA ISOGAWA
TIMOVEIKKO VALVE+
MAXIME BIBEAU
Principal Cello Chair sponsored by Mr Peter Weiss AM
Principal Bass Chair sponsored by John Taberner & Grant Lang
Violins
Viola
SUSANNE VON GUTZEIT ZOË BLACK
AMANDA VERNER Cello
HOWARD PENNY
≈ Satu Vänskä plays a 1728/29 Stradivarius violin kindly on loan from the ACO Instrument Fund. + Timo-Veikko Valve plays a 1729 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ cello kindly on loan from Peter Weiss AM.
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ACO BEHIND THE SCENES BOARD Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM Chairman Angus James Deputy Chairman Bill Best Liz Cacciottolo Chris Froggatt
Janet Holmes à Court AC Andrew Stevens
John Taberner Peter Yates AM
Richard Tognetti AO Artistic Director
ADMINISTRATION STAFF EXECUTIVE OFFICE Timothy Calnin General Manager Jessica Block Deputy General Manager and Development Manager Michelle Kerr Executive Assistant to Mr Calnin and Mr Tognetti AO ARTISTIC & OPERATIONS Luke Shaw Head of Operations and Artistic Planning Alan J. Benson Artistic Administrator Erin McNamara Tour Manager Elissa Seed Travel Coordinator Jennifer Powell Librarian EDUCATION Vicki Norton Education and Emerging Artists Manager Sarah Conolan Education Assistant
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Niseko Winter Music Festival with Jessica Block
TOKYO – NISEKO 8 –18 January 2013 The annual Niseko Winter Music Festival, the brainchild of Richard Tognetti, features Tognetti, members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and invited Japanese guest artists, over three evenings in January at the height of the winter ski season! On the way enjoy three nights in Tokyo to visit stunning temples, shrines and Tokyo’s fish market and shop in the world’s largest electronics store before you head to the ski fields for a week of snow and music.
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ACO MEDICI PROGRAM In the time-honoured fashion of the great Medici family, the ACO’s Medici Patrons support individual players’ Chairs and assist the Orchestra to attract and retain musicians of the highest calibre.
MEDICI PATRON MRS AMINA BELGIORNO-NETTIS
PRINCIPAL CHAIRS Richard Tognetti AO
Helena Rathbone
Satu Vänskä
Lead Violin
Principal Violin
Principal Violin
Michael Ball AM & Daria Ball Joan Clemenger Wendy Edwards Prudence MacLeod
Robert & Kay Bryan
Christopher Moore
Timo-Veikko Valve
Maxime Bibeau
Principal Viola
Principal Cello
Principal Double Bass
Tony Shepherd AO
Peter Weiss AM
John Taberner & Grant Lang
Aiko Goto
Ilya Isakovich
Nicole Divall
Violin
Violin
Viola
Andrew & Hiroko Gwinnett
Australian Communities Foundation – Connie & Craig Kimberley Fund
Ian Lansdown
CORE CHAIRS
Mark Ingwersen Violin
Viola Chair Philip Bacon AM
Madeleine Boud
Alice Evans
Violin
Melissa Barnard
Terry Campbell AO & Christine Campbell
Cello
Violin
Jan Bowen The Davies The Sandgropers
The Bruce & Joy Reid Foundation
Rebecca Chan Violin
Julian Thompson
Ian Wallace & Kay Freedman
Cello
The Clayton Family
GUEST CHAIRS
FRIENDS OF MEDICI
Brian Nixon
Mr R. Bruce Corlett AM & Mrs Ann Corlett
Principal Timpani
Mr Robert Albert AO & Mrs Libby Albert AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 25
ACO INSTRUMENT FUND The ACO has established its Instrument Fund to offer patrons and investors the opportunity to participate in the ownership of a bank of historic stringed instruments. The Fund’s first asset is Australia’s only Stradivarius violin, now on loan to Satu Vänskä, Principal Violin of the Orchestra. The ACO pays tribute to its Founding Patrons of the Fund.
BOARD MEMBERS Bill Best (Chairman) Jessica Block Janet Holmes à Court John Leece OAM John Taberner
FOUNDING PATRONS PETER WEISS AM, PATRON VISIONARY $1m+ Peter Weiss AM
LEADER $500,000–$999,999
ENSEMBLE $10,000$24,999 Leslie & Ginny Green
CONCERTO $200,000–$499,000 Naomi Milgrom AO
SOLO $5,000 $9,999 Amanda Stafford
OCTET $100,000–$199,000 Amina Belgiorno-Nettis
QUARTET $50,000–$99,000 John Leece OAM & Anne Leece
SONATA $25,000–$49,999
FOUNDING INVESTORS Guido & Michelle Belgiorno-Nettis Bill Best Benjamin Brady Steven Duchen Brendan Hopkins John Taberner Ian Wallace & Kay Freedman
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PATRONS $500 $4,999 June & Jim Armitage John Landers & Linda Sweeny Angela Roberts Anonymous (1)
NISEKO SUPPORTERS The ACO would like to pay tribute to the following donors who are supporting our continued involvement with the Niseko Winter Music Festival.
NISEKO PATRONS Ann Gamble Myer Louise & Martyn Myer Foundation Peter Yates AM & Susan Yates
NISEKO SUPPORTERS A J Abercrombie Warwick Anderson Breeze Family Tim Burke Simone Carson Suzy Crittenden Cathryn & Andrew Darbyshire AM Phil & Rosie Harkness Louise & Bill Henson Simon & Katrina Holmes à Court Family Trust Lorna Inman Robert Johanson & Anne Swann
Linda Keyte Richard & Lizzie Leder Naomi Milgrom Clarke & Leanne Morgan Andrew Myer James & Catriona Pettit Jill Reichstein Schiavello Peter Scott John & Nicky Stokes Dr Mark & Mrs Anna Yates Oliver Yates
2011 EUROPEAN TOUR PATRONS The ACO would like to pay tribute to the following donors who supported our highly successful 2011 European Tour. Graeme & Jing Aarons Samantha Allen John & Philippa Armfield Steven Bardy Isla Baring Linda & Graeme Beveridge BG Group Paul Borrud Ben & Debbie Brady Kay Bryan Massel Group Terry Campbell AO & Christine Campbell Jenny & Stephen Charles The Clayton Family Penny Clive & Bruce Neill John Coles Commonwealth Bank Robin D’Alessandro & Noel Philp Jennifer Dunstan Bridget Faye AM Ann Gamble Myer
Rhyll Gardner Alan & Joanna Gemes Tony Gill Global Switch Limited Andrew & Hiroko Gwinnett Peter Henshaw & Fargana Karimova Peter & Sandra Hofbauer Janet L Holmes à Court AC Catherine Holmes à Court-Mather Brendan & Bee Hopkins P J Jopling QC Lady Kleinwort Wayne Kratzmann Prudence MacLeod Bill Merrick P J Miller Jan Minchin Justin Raoul Moffitt Alf Moufarrige
Louise & Martyn Myer Foundation Sir Douglas Myers Marianna & Tony O’Sullivan peckvonhartel architects Diana Polkinghorne Rio Tinto Limited Gregory Stoloff & Sue Lloyd David Stone Andrew Strauss Tim & Sandie Summers John Taberner & Grant Lang Patricia Thomas OBE Beverley Trivett Loretta van Merwyk Malcolm Watkins Michael Welch Wesfarmers Limited Gillian Woodhouse Ms Di Yeldham Anonymous (3)
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ACO SPECIAL COMMISSIONS The ACO pays tribute to our generous donors who have provided visionary support of the creative arts by collaborating with the ACO to commission new works in 2011 and 2012.
THE REEF LEAD PATRONS
PATRONS
Tony & Michelle Grist
Euroz Charitable Foundation Don & Marie Forrest Tony & Rose Packer Nick & Claire Poll
Jane Albert Steven Alward & Mark Wakely Ian Andrews & Jane Hall Janie & Michael Austin T Cavanagh & J Gardner Anne Coombs & Susan Varga Amy Denmeade Toni Frecker John Gaden AM Cathy Gray Susan Johnston & Pauline Garde
Gavin & Kate Ryan Jon & Caro Stewart Simon & Jenny Yeo Brian Kelleher Andrew Leece Scott Marinchek & David Wynne Kate Mills & Sally Breen Nicola Penn Martin Portus Janne Ryan Barbara Schmidt & Peter Cudlipp Richard Steele Stephen Wells & Mischa Way Anonymous (1)
QINOTH by Paul Stanhope Steven Alward & Mark Wakely Ian Andrews & Jane Hall Janie & Michael Austin Austin Bell & Andrew Carter T Cavanagh & J Gardner Chin Moody Family Anne Coombs & Susan Varga Greg Dickson John Gaden AM Cathy Gray Brian Kelleher
Penny Le Couteur Scott Marinchek & David Wynne Kate Mills Janne Ryan Barbara Schmidt & Peter Cudlipp Jane Smith Richard Steele Peter Weiss AM Cameron Williams Anonymous (1)
OTHER COMMISSIONS
SPECIAL COMMISSIONS PATRONS
Jan Minchin Robert & Nancy Pallin
Peter & Valerie Gerrand Margot Woods & Arn Sprogis V Graham Anonymous (1)
ACO RECORDINGS PROGRAM MENDELSSOHN The ACO pays tribute to our generous donors who have supported the ACO’s 2012 recording of glorious music by Mendelssohn – his Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra featuring Richard Tognetti and renowned Russian pianist, Polina Leschenko; and his renowned Octet Op.20. The ACO’s recording program preserves the essence of the ACO as it is today and allows people to hear the ACO again and again, for many years to come. Edmund & Joanna Capon Mr R. Bruce Corlett AM & Mrs Ann Corlett Rowena Danziger & Ken Coles Leslie & Ginny Green
Katrina Groshinski Angela Isles Ian Lansdown in memory of Nina Lansdown Mr Anthony & Mrs Sharon Lee
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Bernard & Barbara Leser Ross Steele AM Victoria Taylor Evan Williams
ACO DONATIONS PROGRAM The ACO pays tribute to all of our generous foundations and donors who have contributed to our Emerging Artists and Education Programs, which focus 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.
PATRONS NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Janet Holmes à Court AC Marc Besen AO & Eva Besen AO
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS
HOLMES À COURT FAMILY FOUNDATION THE ROSS TRUST THE NEILSON FOUNDATION EMERGING ARTISTS & EDUCATION PATRONS $10,000+ Mr Robert Albert AO & Mrs Libby Albert Daria & Michael Ball Steven Bardy Guido & Michelle Belgiorno Nettis Liz Cacciotolo & Walter Lewin John & Janet Calvert-Jones Mark Carnegie John B Fairfax AO Chris & Tony Froggatt PJ Jopling QC Miss Nancy Kimpton Paula Kinnane Alf Moufarrige Drs Alex & Pam Reisner Mr John Singleton AM John Taberner & Grant Lang The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP & Ms Lucy Turnbull AO Peter Weiss AM E Xipell Anonymous (1)
DIRETTORE $5,000$9,999 The Abercrombie Family Foundation Geoff Alder The Belalberi Foundation Jenny & Stephen Charles Ross & Rona Clarke Leith & Darrel Conybeare Bridget Faye AM Ian & Caroline Frazer Edward C Gray Annie Hawker
Rosemary Holden Keith Kerridge Lorraine Logan David Maloney & Erin Flaherty Louise & Martyn Myer Foundation Marianna & Tony O’Sullivan Sandra & Michael Paul Endowment John Rickard The Roberts Family A J Rogers Paul Salteri Paul Schoff Kerry Stokes AC & Christine Simpson Ian Wallace & Kay Freedman Ian Wilcox & Mary Kostakidis Cameron Williams Anonymous (1)
MAESTRO $2,500$4,999 Jane Allen Tiffany Andrews Will & Dorothy Bailey Bequest Doug & Alison Battersby Virginia Berger Patricia Blau Cam & Helen Carter Caroline & Robert Clemente M Crittenden John & Gloria Darroch Kate Dixon Leigh Emmett Liangrove Foundation Goode Family Maurice & Tina Green Warren Green
Nereda Hanlon & Michael Hanlon AM Liz Harbison Angela James & Phil McMaster Peter Lovell Alastair Lucas AM The Marshall Family The Michael Family P J Miller Donald & Jane Morley Jennie & Ivor Orchard Patricia H Reid Endowment Pty Ltd Ralph & Ruth Renard D N Sanders Greg Shalit & Miriam Faine Ms Petrina Slaytor Amanda Stafford Dr & Mrs R Tinning Ralph Ward-Ambler AM & Barbara Ward-Ambler Anonymous (2)
Sandra Cassell Georg & Monika Chmiel Angela & John Compton Alan Fraser Cooper Judy Croll Betty Crouchley Marie Dalziel Lindee & Hamish Dalziell Mrs June Danks Michael & Wendy Davis Anne & Thomas Dowling Jennifer Dowling Professor Dexter Dunphy AM Bronwyn Eslick Peter Evans Helen Elizabeth Fairfax Elizabeth Finnegan Nancy & Graham Fox Colonel Tim Frost Anne & Justin Gardener Daniel & Helen Gauchat Richard & Jay Griffin Paul Harris Lyndsey Hawkins VIRTUOSO Peter Hearl $1,000$2,499 Reg Hobbs & Louise Carbines Michael Horsburgh AM & Antoinette Albert Beverley Horsburgh David & Rae Allen Penelope Hughes Andrew Andersons Wendy Hughes David Arnott Pam & Bill Hughes Sibilla Baer Roger Massy-Greene & The Beeren Foundation Belinda Hutchinson AM Kathy Borrud Stephanie & Michael Ben & Debbie Brady Hutchinson Vicki Brooke Phillip Isaacs OAM In memory of Elizabeth C D & I Kallinikos Schweig Len La Flamme Jasmine Brunner John Landers & Linda Sweeny Sally Bufé Elizabeth & Nicholas Callinan Mrs Judy Lee Greg Lindsay AO & Jenny Michael Cameron Cannings Communication Lindsay
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ACO DONATIONS PROGRAM Sydney & Airdrie Lloyd Bronwyn & Andrew Lumsden Judy Lynch Jennifer Marshall Martin Family in memory of Lloyd Martin AM Roderick & Leonie Matheson Jane Mathews AO Kevin & Deidre McCann Brian & Helen McFadyen Ian & Pam McGaw J A McKernan G & A Nelson Nola Nettheim Glen Hunter & Anthony Niardone Anne & Christopher Page David Penington AC Ayesha Penman Mark Renehan Dr S M Richards AM & Mrs M R Richards Warwick & Jeanette Richmond In Memory of Andrew Richmond David & Gillian Ritchie Julia Champtaloup & Andrew Rothery In Memory of H. St. P. Scarlett Paul Skamvougeras Diana Snape & Brian Snape AM Maria Sola & Malcolm Douglas Ezekiel Solomon AM K W Spence Cisca Spencer Geoffrey Stirton Mr Tom Story John & Jo Strutt Dr Douglas Sturkey CVO AM Dr Charles Su & Dr Emily Lo Rob Thomas Anne Tonkin Ngaire Turner Loretta van Merwyk Kay Vernon Bill Watson M W Wells Janie & Nev Wittey Sir Robert Woods Nick & Jo Wormald Don & Mary Ann Yeats Mark Young William Yuille Anonymous (15)
CONCERTINO $500$999 Antoinette Ackermann Mrs Lenore Adamson in memory of Mr Ross Adamson Peter & Catherine Aird Elsa Atkin Ruth Bell Max Benyon Baiba Berzins Brian Bothwell Morena Buffon & Santo Cilauro Darcey Bussell Fred & Jody Chaney Colleen & Michael Chesterman Richard & Elizabeth Chisholm Stephen Chivers John Clayton ClearFresh Water Joan Clemenger Sam Crawford Architects Professor John Daley Ted & Christine Dauber Mari Davis Dr Christopher Dibden Martin Dolan Mike & Pamela Downey In Memory of Raymond Dudley Professor Peter Ebeling & Mr Gary Plover M T & R L Elford Suellen Enestrom Barbara Fargher Michael Fogarty Patricia Gavaghan Mirek Generowicz Peter & Valerie Gerrand Paul Gibson & Gabrielle Curtin Brian Goddard Prof Ian & Dr Ruth Gough Philip Graham Katrina Groshinski Dr Annette Gross Matthew Handbury Lesley Harland Mr Ken Hawkings Virginia Henry Dr Penny Herbert in memory of Dunstan Herbert Jennifer Hershon M John Higgins & Jodie Maunder
Peter & Ann Hollingworth Dr & Mrs Michael Hunter John & Pamela Hutchinson Philip & Sheila Jacobson Barry & Davina Johnson OAM Brian Jones Mrs Caroline Jones Mrs Angela Karpin Bruce & Natalie Kellett Tony Kynaston & Jenny Fagg Robert Leece AM Megan Lowe John Lui James MacKean Donald C Maxwell Philip Maxwell & Jane Tham Dr Hamish & Mrs Rosemary McGlashan Patricia McGregor Mrs Robyn McLay I Merrick Jan Minchin Graeme L Morgan Julie Moses Helen & Gerald Moylan Susan Negrau J Norman Graham North Robin Offler Allegra & Giselle Overton Selwyn M Owen Josephine Paech L Parsonage Deborah Pearson Kevin Phillips Michael Power Tomasz Rawdanowicz Larry & Mickey Robertson Sophie Rothery Team Schmoopy Manfred & Linda Salamon Greg & Elizabeth Sanderson Robert Savage AM Garry Scarf & Morgie Blaxill Jeff Schwartz Ken & Lucille Seale Jennifer Sindel John Sydney Smith Dr Fiona Stewart Prof Robert Sutherland In memory of Dr Aubrey Sweet Shaun Tan Leslie C Thiess Joy Anderson & Neil Thomas David Walsh
G C & R Weir Gordon & Christine Windeyer Lee Wright Mr Hugh Wyndham Brian Zulaikha Anonymous (20)
CONTINUO CIRCLE BEQUEST PROGRAM The late Kerstin Lillemor Andersen Dave Beswick Ruth Bell Sandra Cassell The late Mrs Moya Crane Mrs Sandra Dent Leigh Emmett The late Colin Enderby Peter Evans Carol Farlow Ms Charlene France Suzanne Gleeson Lachie Hill Penelope Hughes The late Pauline Marie Johnston The late Mr Geoff Lee AM OAM Mrs Judy Lee The late Richard Ponder Ian & Joan Scott Margaret & Ron Wright Mark Young Anonymous (13)
LIFE PATRONS IBM Mr Robert Albert AO & Mrs Libby Albert Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM Mrs Barbara Blackman Mrs Roxane Clayton Mr David Constable AM Mr Martin Dickson AM & Mrs Susie Dickson Mr John Harvey AO Mrs Alexandra Martin Mrs Faye Parker Mr John Taberner & Mr Grant Lang Mr Peter Weiss AM
CONTRIBUTIONS If you would like to consider making a donation or bequest to the ACO, or would like to direct your support in other ways, please contact Lillian Armitage on 02 8274 3835 or at Lillian.Armitage@aco.com.au.
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ACO COMMITTEES SYDNEY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Bill Best (Chairman) Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM Chairman ACO & Executive Director Transfield Holdings Leigh Birtles Executive Director UBS Wealth Management
Liz Cacciottolo Senior Advisor UBS Australia Ian Davis Managing Director Telstra Television
Tony Gill Rhyll Gardner Tony O’Sullivan Managing Partner O’Sullivan Partners
Chris Froggatt
Peter Shorthouse Client Advisor UBS Wealth Management John Taberner Consultant Freehills
MELBOURNE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Peter Yates AM (Chairman) Chairman Royal Institution of Australia Director AIAA Ltd
Debbie Brady Ben Brady Stephen Charles
Paul Cochrane Investment Advisor Bell Potter Securities Colin Golvan SC
Jan Minchin Director Tolarno Galleries Susan Negrau
EVENT COMMITTEES Bowral
Brisbane
Sydney
Elsa Atkin Michael Ball AM (Chairman) Daria Ball Cam Carter Linda Hopkins Judy Lynch Karen Mewes Keith Mewes Tony O’Sullivan Marianna O’Sullivan The Hon Michael Yabsley
Ross Clarke Steffi Harbert Elaine Millar Deborah Quinn
Margie Blok Helene Burt Liz Cacciottolo (Chair) Judy Crawford Dr Dee Debruyn Di Collins Judy Anne Edwards Chris Froggatt Elizabeth Harbison Susan Harte Bee Hopkins
Sarah Jenkins Vanessa Jenkins Charlotte Mackenzie Prue MacLeod Julianne Maxwell Marianna O’Sullivan Julia Pincus Amanda Purcell David Stewart Tom Thawley Nicky Tindill
ACO CAPITAL CHALLENGE The ACO Capital Challenge is a secure fund, which permanently strengthens the ACO’s future. Revenue generated by the corpus provides funds to commission new works, expose international audiences to the ACO’s unique programming, support the development of young Australian artists and establish and strengthen a second ensemble. We would like to thank all donors who have contributed towards reaching our goal and in particular pay tribute to the following donors: CONCERTO $250,000 – $499,000
OCTET $100,000 – $249,000
QUARTET $50,000 – $99,000
Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM & Mrs Michelle Belgiorno-Nettis Mrs Barbara Blackman
Mr Robert Albert AO & Mrs Libby Albert Mrs Amina Belgiorno-Nettis The Thomas Foundation
The Clayton Family Mr Peter Hall Mr & Mrs Philip & Fiona Latham
Mr John Taberner & Mr Grant Lang Mr Peter Yates AM & Mrs Susan Yates
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ACO PARTNERS 2012 CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL MEMBERS The Chairman’s Council is a limited membership association of high level executives who support the ACO’s international touring program and enjoy private events in the company of Richard Tognetti and the Orchestra. Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM Chairman Australian Chamber Orchestra & Joint Managing Director Transfield Holdings Mr Philip Bacon AM Director Philip Bacon Galleries Mr David Baffsky AO
Mr Richard Freudenstein Mr Donald Chief Executive Officer McGauchie AO FOXTEL Chairman Nufarm Limited Mr Colin Golvan SC & Dr Deborah Golvan Mr John Meacock Managing Partner NSW Mr John Grill Deloitte Chief Executive Officer WorleyParsons Ms Naomi Milgrom AO Mrs Janet Holmes à Court AC
Mr Brad Banducci Mr & Mrs Simon & Director Katrina Holmes à Court Woolworths Liquor Group Observant Pty Limited Mr Jeff Bond General Manager Peter Lehmann Wines Mr John Borghetti Chief Executive Officer Virgin Australia Mr Michael & Mrs Helen Carapiet Mr Stephen & Mrs Jenny Charles Mr Georg Chmiel Chief Executive Officer LJ Hooker Mr & Mrs Robin Crawford
Mr John James Managing Director Vanguard Ms Catherine Livingstone AO Chairman Telstra Mr Andrew Low Founder & Chairman/CEO RedBridge Grant Samuel Mr Steven Lowy AM Chief Executive Officer Westfield Group
Mr Didier Mahout CEO Australia & NZ Rowena Danziger AM & Kenneth G. Coles AM BNP Paribas Dr Bob Every Chairman Wesfarmers Mr Robert Scott Managing Director Wesfarmers Insurance
Mr David Mathlin Senior Principal Sinclair Knight Merz
Ms Jan Minchin Director Tolarno Galleries Mr Jim Minto Managing Director TAL Mr Alf Moufarrige Chief Executive Officer Servcorp Mr Scott Perkins Head of Global Banking Deutsche Bank Australia/New Zealand Mr John B Prescott AC Chairman Mr Hans Anneveldt Vice President Intermodal Business QR National
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Mr Paul Sumner Director Mossgreen Pty Ltd Mr Mitsuyuki (Mike) Takada Managing Director & CEO Mitsubishi Australia Ltd Mr Alden Toevs Group Chief Risk Officer Commonwealth Bank of Australia Mr Michael Triguboff Managing Director MIR Investment Management Ltd The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP & Ms Lucy Turnbull AO Ms Vanessa Wallace Director Booz & Company
Mr Oliver Roydhouse Managing Director Inlink
Mr Kim Williams AM Chief Executive Officer News Limited
Mr Glen Sealey General Manager Maserati Australia & New Zealand
Mr Geoff Wilson Chief Executive Officer KPMG Australia
Ms Julianne Maxwell
Mr Michael Maxwell Mr Angelos Mr Geoff McClellan Frangopoulos Partner Chief Executive Officer Australian News Channel Freehills
Mr Andrew Stevens Managing Director IBM Australia & New Zealand
Mr Ray Shorrocks Head of Corporate Finance, Sydney Patersons Securities
Mr Peter Yates AM Chairman, Royal Institution of Australia Director, AIAA Ltd
ACO CORPORATE PARTNERS The ACO would like to thank its corporate partners for their generous support. PRINCIPAL PARTNER
FOUNDING PARTNER
NATIONAL TOUR PARTNERS
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
PERTH SERIES & WA REGIONAL TOUR PARTNER
CONCERT AND SERIES PARTNERS
Peter Weiss AM Daryl Dixon EVENT PARTNERS
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ACO NEWS • SEPTEMBER 2012
news OUR NEW PRINCIPAL PARTNER © Justin Nicholas
Virgin Australia We are thrilled to announce that Virgin Australia has recently become the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Partner. This is our first-ever Principal Partner, and Virgin Australia’s first major performing arts sponsorship — a partnership which brings together two great Australian companies, aligning our shared values of innovation and vibrancy. “We are very excited to have Virgin Australia as the ACO’s first Principal Partner. The ACO has found its perfect match in Virgin Australia — a dynamic and highly-spirited company with an ethos of innovation and vibrancy,” said Guido Belgiorno-Nettis, Chairman of the ACO. John Borghetti, CEO of Virgin Australia, said “Virgin Australia is delighted to be involved with the ACO as its Principal Partner, and to be associated with one of the world’s most internationally renowned touring ensembles. The partnership will allow the ACO to extend its
John Borghetti, CEO Virgin Australia, and Richard Tognetti
touring network, to take music to more people around Australia and the rest of the world — from the main-stages of capital cities through to halls in regional centres, and outback towns.” This partnership means that we can use Virgin’s domestic and international network to bring our music to more places in Australia and around the world than ever before.
EDUCATION NEWS
In September, an ACO Ensemble travelled to south west WA and played concerts for communities in Albany, Katanning, Manjimup and Narrogin. We performed in-school concerts for students in Manjimup and at the Katanning and Narrogin Senior High Schools. 34 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
We also facilitated string workshops in Albany, as well as a professional development session with the Albany Chamber Orchestra — another ACO. For a diary from the road visit acoblog.com.au. © Fiora Sacco
In August we facilitated string workshops in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, working with talented students from 60 schools across these metropolitan areas, including several regional students. We also invited Sydney students behind-the-scenes into our rehearsal studio.
Students during a string workshop.
SPECIAL EVENTS Medici Patrons & Chairman’s Council Dinners In August, we thanked our most valued patrons and supporters at our annual Medici Patrons and Chairman’s Council Dinners in Sydney and Melbourne.
We would like to thank Sofitel Luxury Hotels, Peter Lehmann Wines and Langton’s Fine Wines for their support of these events.
Held at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth and the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins, these special evenings were a wonderful opportunity for us to say thank you for the continued support we receive throughout the year and a lovely chance for our patrons to catch up with friends and fellow ACO supporters. Of course the best way we know how to say thank you is through our music, and what better way than in such an intimate setting. A highlight of the evening was the speech by the Chairman of the Medici Council, and ACO Board Member John Taberner, who gave a very personal and heartfelt account of why he has been supporting us as such a longstanding Medici Patron. (Above) Medici Patrons Jim and Carol Sroczynski at the Sydney dinner. (Left) ACO Board Members Bill Best, Angus James and Andrew Stevens at the Sydney dinner. (Below left) Chairman’s Council member Mitsiyuki (Mike) Takada of Mitsubishi Australia, and his wife Nana, at the Melbourne dinner. (Below right) Medici Patron Michael Ball AM and ACO Board Member Peter Yates AM at the Melbourne dinner.
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EUROPE TOUR REPORT In comparison to this year’s US tour in April, with its arduous travel schedule and endless hotel check-ins and check-outs, the European tour looked like a breeze – at least on paper. We flew directly to Edinburgh to play at the Edinburgh Festival, then took the train to London for a concert in Cadogan Hall before flying to Slovenia for an 11-day residency in the Maribor Festival. But a closer look at the program revealed a musical pentathlon, a challenge to the energy, stamina and versatility of any ensemble. Our London concert, for example, contained two “main courses” in the form of Ravel’s String Quartet (arranged by Richard Tognetti) and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night. But it was the vast quantity of repertoire for the Maribor Festival that was the real test. We were involved in 12 different programs in 11 days, rehearsing every morning and every afternoon and appearing on-stage almost every evening. We have never played to the overture+concerto+symphony formula, but the concerts Richard curated for this year’s Festival caused musical worlds to collide. While the big gigs like The Reef and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony drew crowds and excited reactions, the chamber concert in the eerie 18th-century mansion which had been a children’s mental asylum in the communist era will never be
forgotten. Partly because of the atmosphere of the place but perhaps even more for the performance of Shostakovich’s Ninth Quartet, led by Satu Vänskä with Rebecca Chan, Christopher Moore and Timo-Veikko Valve. As the Maribor concerts got under way, some fantastic reviews from Edinburgh and London started to appear, opening with The Sunday Telegraph’s comment “probably the finest string ensemble on the planet” and followed by The Guardian, “The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s infrequent visits to Britain with its director Richard Tognetti deserve to be cherished just as much as those by great symphony orchestras like the Cleveland or the Royal Concertgebouw. There’s no string band in the northern hemisphere that communicates such energy, such joy in its music-making as the ACO does, nor combines those qualities with such precision and detailed ensemble.” After an intense year of international touring in 2012, we have a less hectic international schedule in 2013. Our international program for next year includes the Niseko Winter Music Festival in January and a residency at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March, followed by a visit to Berkeley, California. Meanwhile 2014 is shaping up impressively with concerts in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, Lincoln Center in New York and London’s Southbank Centre.
YOUR SAY Feedback about the Beethoven 9 concert tour “The adrenaline poured right out into the audience…The choir and soloists were magnificent. I am intending to send a program to a friend in UK…It is always good to brag a little!!!” Colleen Schneider “Today’s concert was an amazing experience, just brilliant, truly beyond superlatives!!!” James & Jeanette Gray
“Richard’s energy should be bottled.” Vicky Marquis “I had to wait seventy eight years to hear this wonderful symphony played in full, and it was definitely worth the wait. All was sheer magic and a great thrill. Every musician outdid themselves and it was a performance not to be missed.” Yvonne Liechti
Let us know what you thought about this concert at aco@aco.com.au.
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