Join Richard Tognetti and the ACO for a two-part panoramic adventure spanning centuries of music.

Part Two sees the ACO take a deep dive into the glorious, inventive and often shocking music of the last hundred years. Richard and the Orchestra pick up the journey at the turn of the century with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, before weaving through the music of Webern and Debussy.

The ACO then leaps from Europe into the invention of North America, with Walker’s sublimly beautiful Lyric for Strings and Florence Price’s Clementine. Arvo Pärt and Australia’s own Peter Sculthorpe round out the 20th century before didgeridoo player and composer William Barton joins the Orchestra onstage for a performance of his own work, Hypersonic, bringing the concert to a mesmerising close.

In this special gala event, Richard Tognetti will lead one of the Orchestra’s first public performances in Sydney’s newest performance space, The Neilson, a stunning state-of-the-art concert hall that has been especially designed for the ACO.

Joining the ACO onstage for the celebrations are some of Australia’s most iconic musicians and long-standing ACO collaborators, including singer/songwriter Jimmy Barnes, didgeridoo virtuoso, composer and singer William Barton, pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, guitarist Slava Grigoryan and recorder player Genevieve Lacey, while performers from our neighbours at Sydney Theatre Company will present newly commissioned monologues from a range of Australian writers reflecting on this moment in the history of the ACO and Walsh Bay.