AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor: Kevin Purcell
The Australian Discovery Orchestra provides 68 exceptional professional musicians from across the country the opportunity several times each year to perform repertoire embracing the catalogue of extraordinary orchestral music rarely heard live in-concert, occasional performances of classic masterworks revealed in a new light and, a commitment to premiering new Australian music.
The orchestra is committed to seeking new ways of engaging audiences through focusing on the exceptional talents of these musicians through whose efforts provide the catalyst for listeners to epxerience one of the most humanly transformative activities imaginable – live classical music.
2019 Season Live Concert Tickets Now on Sale
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CONCERT 4 SPECIAL EVENT
October 27th
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine”
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
(Students of Daphne Proietto from Keys of Life Foundation perform with the ADO)
Photo ©Alex Coppel/Herald Sun
featuring the music of R. Vaughan Williams, D. Shostakovich, G. Bizet, P. Grainger and M. Clementi
including
The Lark Ascending
Soloist: Marianne Rothschild
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872- 1958)
Still available on Pay-Per-View from our 2018 Season
The ADO presents the Australian premiere
Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974)
Symphony No. 3 Op. 10 West Coast Pictures (Västkustbilder)
I. Sonnenrauch (Sun-smoke; Soldis)
II. Sturm (Storm)
III. Sommernacht (Summer Night; Sommarnatt)
“…the Third is arguably the finest of Atterberg’s nine, and there are some who rate it one of the finest Nordic symphonies of the first-half of the 20th century…”
Gramophone April 2016
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PREVIEW
Still available to watch from our 2017 Season
Love | Murder | Betrayal
Puccini’s incendiary operatic masterpiece (abridged) in concert
Floria Tosca: Lee Abrahmsen
Mario Cavaradossi: Matthew Reardon
Il Barone Scarpia: Simon Meadows
PREVIEW
Now free to watch the whole concert through to 31 October 2019
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