AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor: Kevin Purcell
The Australian Discovery Orchestra provides 68 exceptional professional musicians from across the country, the opportunity to come together 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 viewers and listeners by making the music it performs a catalyst for interaction with its Internet-wide audience. Holding to a core belief that experiencing orchestral music is really one of the most humanly transformative activities imagineable, the ADO strives to create unique modes of musical storytelling able to be told across multiple channels simultaneously.
2019 Season Live Concert Tickets Now on Sale
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CONCERT 1 EVENT
19th May
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996)
Atoms of Silence
Andrián Pertout (1963 – )
(Commissioned by Julian Burnside AO QC)
Australian work – world premiere performance
Symphony No. 8 in D Minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872- 1958)
(ed. David Lloyd Jones)
CONCERT 2 EVENT
~Chamber Music Concert~
August 11th
“A conversation between friends.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973)
Sextet
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
L’Heure du Berger
Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Sonata for clarinet, flute and piano
Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938)
Opus Number Zoo
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
CONCERT 3 WEEKEND
Sir Arnold Bax Music Festival
~Edition No. 1~
August 31 – September 1st.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.””
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Tintagel
From Dusk ‘Till Dawn
Australian premiere performance
(with the permission of the Bax Trust and the cooperation with the Royal Academy of Music)
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 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
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 30 April 2019
Click here to watch now
