Happy New Year to everyone – or “Auguri” as they say in Venice from where I am writing this post. Today I have announced the preliminary concert schedule for the ADO’s 2017 season. Â More details, including dates and venues to be announced shortly. Â If you haven’t already seen it, tap here. For the Season opening […]
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I thought it was a good time to reflect on the first half of our 2016-17 Season. But, it’s over I hear you say? No, actually, we’re only half-way through. But I can understand the assumption that we have concluded our current season projects. Our season starts in May each year and concludes in April-May
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It probably would come as a surprise for some to learn, that much of the planning for ADO concerts happens at least a year in advance of presenting the concert itself. In itself, this is actually fairly common practice for orchestras around the world; the preparation to put 60-100 players onstage to present a program
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We were delighted to receive quite a number of applications for our first conducting masterclass of the season. After reviewing all the videos received and applicant CVs and biographies, we have selected the following as active participants for the 2 x 2.5 hours rehearsals on May 27. They are (in alphabetical order): Joshua Geddes Andrew
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We’ve decided after weighing up many, many options out there to abandon doing traditional newsletters (sorry about that AWeber, MailChimp etc). One of the simple reasons is that by either occasionally visiting the ADO website or following us on Facebook will keep you up-to-date with everything going on with the Australian Discovery Orchestra. But the
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