The Australian Romantic & Classical Orches...
Event Date: 25/03/2017, 07:30 pm
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (formerly orchestra seventeen88)
In its exciting touring 2017 season, Australia’s world-class Romantic and Classical orchestra presents bold and daring programs with superlative soloists, conducted by Artistic Director Richard Gill AO
and Principal Guest Conductor Benjamin Bayl.
ARCO (which also means ‘to bow’ a string instrument in Italian music terminology) burst onto Australia’s music scene in late 2013 as orchestra seventeen88 and has since performed outstanding orchestral and chamber concerts all around Australia.
Featuring some of Australia’s finest international musicians and directed by legendary Australian conductor and educator Richard Gill AO,
it aims ‘to inspire, educate and enlighten’ audiences. Through the combination of historical integrity and quality of musical performance, ARCO leads a rediscovery of Classical and Romantic repertoire with the beauty and clarity unique to a full period instrument orchestra.
It has also made music education a focal point of its vision and the ambitious 2017 program steps this up a gear too with a series of workshops for public and private school students in Melbourne and at Sydney’s Santa Sabina College.
The excitement begins in March with the “Italian Romance” program, featuring Beethoven’s Romance for Violin (Rachael Beesley, soloist; Benjamin Bayl, conductor) and Mendelssohn’s beloved ‘Italian’ Symphony.
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City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000