Vanguard appreciates a great performance - which is why we are the Australian Chamber Orchestra's exclusive Asian Tour Partner for 2008. Having inspired audiences for over 30 years, the orchestra is a testament to investing for the long term. Each year the ensemble presents exciting performances of the highest standard to audiences around the world, including 10,000 subscribers across Australia.
Under the inspiring leadership of Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director and Lead Violin, the ACO performs music from the Baroque to the present day with a vitality and energy unmatched by any other ensemble. The musicians perform on modern and period instruments, as a small chamber group, as a small symphony orchestra and as an electro-acoustic ensemble. The ACO is renowned internationally for artistic excellence and adventurous programming, continually challenging preconceived notions of what a chamber orchestra should be.
"With less than 15% of our income provided by the government, the ACO requires support from visionary partners, like Vanguard, which understand that successful partnerships are built on a commitment to a common goal. With Vanguard's support as our exclusive Asian Tour Partner, the ACO will present world-class Australians on the international stage in performances in Japan and Seoul in October this year. We share Vanguard's commitment to forging long term partnerships with its clients and hope that the relationship we are building together inspires and challenges people across Asia with Australian brilliance." - Bill Gillespie OAM, General Manager, Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Click to watch the ACO perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 |
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Click to watch Richard Tognetti - Artistic Director and Lead Violin - talk about the creative processes involved with The Red Tree collaboration. |
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Click to watch Helena Rathbone introduce Vivaldi's Four Seasons and guest director Alina Ibragimova in this Vivacious Webumentary. |
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Click to watch Timo-Veikko Valve and Richard Tognetti talk about Brahms's Double Concerto for violin and cello. |
Read what the critics are saying
"Listening to the Australian Chamber Orchestra is like taking a swig of a vitamin drink. Suddenly: pow! We loved it: this was the perfect encore for a wayward concert from a group that seems forever vital and young. If that's what Australia does for you, I'm also emigrating." - The Times, London, 24 April 2008
"A visit from the Australian Chamber Orchestra always raises questions. Does violinist Richard Tognetti, its leader for 19 years, have a slowly mouldering portrait in the attic? Can ugly players even audition? More pertinently, let's ask about what we settle for from music-making in the UK - why do so few of our ensembles present their music with this kind of ear-grabbing vigour? The ACO's formula is not unique, and Pekka Kuusisto achieves something similar with the London Chamber Orchestra or Britten Sinfonia; but still, that is an exception. For the ACO, it is the rule." - The Guardian, London, 23 April 2008
"An almost athletic spirit inspires the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Tognetti avoids all lukewarm mediocrity. He intensifies dynamic contrasts, calls for incisive articulation and leads his troupe to elegant brilliance as well as heart-warming intensity." - Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Australian, 16 April 2008
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