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Richard Tognetti

August 2024

Australian Chamber Orchestra violinist, Satu Vanska, in collaboration with Sydney Dance Company dancers Emily Seymour and Liam Green, rehearsing at the City Recital Hall.

This is why a ‘Frankenstein’ violin can still be worth millions

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Satu Vanska is in a dream collaboration with the Sydney Dance Company, but has nightmares about losing her violin.

  • Matt Teffer

December 2023

This is what happens when the ACO does Pussy Riot

ACO Underground, the electrified offshoot of Australia’s premier chamber orchestra, loosened the shackles in a Sydney basement on Sunday night.

  • Michael Bailey

November 2023

Harry Connick, Jr crooning at Christmas in the Rockefeller Center.

Just the ticket: the key events in Australia this summer

From the Hallelujah Chorus to Harry Connick Jr, there’s music, ballet, opera and more to kick up a song and dance about this month and into the new year.

  • Michael Bailey

August 2023

The former chair of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Guido Belgornio-Nettis, with new chair Martyn Myer at the ACO’s Walsh Bay performance space.

From one heir to another in ACO chairmanship handover

Martyn Myer has assumed the helm of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, taking over from Guido Belgiorno-Nettis.

  • Michael Bailey
Australian Chamber Orchestra artistic director Richard Tognetti and Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela, with SDC dancers. The two companies will in 2024 collaborate on a program of JS Bach and Arvo Part pieces set to choreography.

Two arts giants collaborate in ACO’s next season

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2024 calendar has it partnering with a neighbour, getting to the heart of Mahler, and sneaking in a Radiohead song.

  • Michael Bailey
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March 2023

The pair have collaborated several times over the years and come together again as friends as well as musicians.

East marries West in this hypnotic rendition of The Four Seasons

Baroque and Arabic music are closer than you think, says oud master Joseph Tawadros, ahead of a tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra to perform Vivaldi’s masterpiece.

  • Michael Bailey

November 2022

ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti plays an electric violin, a very different instrument to the 1743 Guarneri del Gesù he usually plays.

Richard Tognetti’s electric violin to put the AC into the ACO

The world premiere of a piece by American composer Samuel Adams will have the Australian Chamber Orchestra sounding like never before.

  • Michael Bailey

July 2022

ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti and members of the orchestra framed by a scene from ‘The Crowd & I.’

The ACO’s next concert will have a crowd of millions

Richard Tognetti and colleagues will provide the live soundtrack to a new film examining the behaviour of people when they gather en masse.

  • Michael Bailey

May 2022

Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, Sydney’s new, $372 million arts precinct.

It’s act two for an engineering icon long eclipsed by the Opera House

It’s been no simple task converting Walsh Bay’s post WW1 wharves into a high-tech arts precinct, but architect Peter Tonkin has pulled it off to applause.

  • Steve Meacham
ACO Underground founder Satu Vänskä with bandmate (and ACO artistic director and husband) Richard Tognetti.

ACO Underground returns with rock, pop and shock at posh venue

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s creative wild child will be let loose once more on June 4, this time at the band’s sleek new digs in Walsh Bay.

  • Michael Bailey

January 2022

Inside the new home of the Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has a beautiful new space, and a new program of performances to fill it with.

  • Michael Bailey

October 2021

Looking to the future: ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti.

ACO’s new season is literally one for the crowd

If ever there was a time for a multimedia reflection on the psychology of crowds, 2022 is it - and the Australian Chamber Orchestra will be featuring one as a centrepiece of its new season.

  • Michael Bailey

August 2021

The Australian Chamber Orchestra, with director Richard Tognetti and principal violin Satu Vanska, in performance film Tabula Rasa.

The ACO’s Tabula Rasa film will lighten your lockdown

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has filmed performances of two works, written behind the Soviet Iron Curtain, which help put our predicament in perspective,

  • Michael Bailey

March 2021

ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti.

ACO in Sydney, flautist in Berlin: concert film breaks new ground

For its latest digital concert, the Australian Chamber Orchestra gets experimental as it takes the audience into a small recording studio.

  • Philippa Coates

August 2020

Richard Tognetti

The ACO is back – with mask strings attached

The national chamber orchestra has joined the tentative march of big performing arts companies back on stage.

  • Michael Bailey
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April 2020

Working from home: Satu Vanska and Richard Tognetti perform in their Manly lounge room.

How to run an orchestra in isolation

The Australian Chamber Orchestra is trying everything from Go-Pros to kids' violin lessons to keep its subscribers' faith.

  • Michael Bailey

January 2020

Bach meets Nine Inch Nails: The violinist who plays by her own rules

Australian Chamber Orchestra's Satu Vänskä is part of the revival of ACO Underground, the breakout ensemble jolting musicians out of their comfort zone.

  • Philippa Coates

August 2019

Luminous is the result of a 15-year-old friendship between artist Bill Henson and ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti.

Still luminous after all these years: Bill Henson returns with the ACO

More than a slideshow with a pretty soundtrack, the photographer's collaboration with Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra started with lunch.

  • Michael Bailey

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