ACO Presents: ACO Collective - The Capital

“CO Collective is blazing a promising trail into the artform's next era." – Maxim Boon, THE AGE

ACO Collective commenced touring as ACO2 in 2007 and since then has performed in more than 85 regional centres in every state and territory, all of Australia’s state capitals, and has toured to Japan. The ensemble works with guest artists of the highest calibre, both international and Australian, including violinists Pekka Kuusisto (who served as ACO Collective’s Artistic Director from 2016 – 2019), Matthew Truscott, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Benjamin Schmid, Henning Kraggerud, Malin Broman, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Thomas Gould; cellist Daniel Müller-Schott; the Meta 4 quartet; harpist Alice Giles; recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey; singer / songwriter Tim Freedman; clarinetist Matthew Hunt, oud player Joseph Tawadros and the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir.

ACO Collective under the direction of Helena Rathbone recorded the ABC Classic album Collective Wisdom for the Hush Foundation. Bringing together the artistry of six of Australia’s most established composers and six emerging composers in an ambitious project that engaged with adolescent patients at children’s hospitals around Australia, this beautiful album features twelve original Australian works written for hospitals, homes and shared spaces across the globe.

PROGRAM

ANNE CAWRSE, New Commission for strings (World Premiere*)

HUGO WOLF, Italian Serenade

MAX RICHTER, On the Nature of Daylight

HENRY PURCELL, Fantasia upon One Note

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, (arr. Adam Johnson) The Lark Ascending

JOSEF SUK, Serenade for Strings