Australian Chamber Orchestra Pty Ltd

Our principal activity is to encourage, promote and support the Australian Chamber Orchestra and its performance, learning and engagement activities to a large and diverse domestic and international audience and the management of our home performance, rehearsal and event venue for internal and external supported hirers. In 2024 the Company presented 237 concerts to an audience of over 125,500, the Company s largest annual audience in its history. These performances were held across Australian metropolitan centres including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth, regional centres including Warrnambool, Narre Warren, Geelong, Wangaratta, and Gippsland (VIC); Goulburn, Wollongong and Wyong (NSW) and internationally in cities including New York and Hong Kong. The Company collaborated with worldrenowned musicians and artists including First Nations Australian didgeridoo player and vocalist William Barton, pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, singers Stuart Skelton, Catherine Carby, and Iestyn Davies, oud player Joseph Tawadros, riq player James Tawadros, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, classical accordion player James Crabb, harpsichordist Chad Kelly and guitarist Sean Shibe. The Orchestra also performed Richard Tognetti s awardwinning cinematic collaboration with film director Jennifer Peedom, River, on a national tour, premiered a new collaboration with Sydney Dance Company, Silence & Rapture, which was choreographed by Rafael Bonachela and featured dancers Emily Seymour and Liam Green along with singer Iestyn Davies, and presented a special concert with popular journalists and podcasters Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales, For the Love of Music, which was performed in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The Company gave four world premieres of works by Australian composers Anne Cawrse, Jakub Jankowski, Chad Kelly and Harry Sdraulig. In addition to this, the Company performed seven Australian premieres of works by international composers Britta Byström, Tom Coult, John Luther Adams, Cassandra Miller, Julia Wolfe, Thomas Ades and David Fennessy. The Company released two new recordings in partnership with ABC Classic across digital and CD formats: the soundtrack for the Oscarnominated film, Memoir of a Snail, and Kilar: Orawa | Rautavaara: The Fiddlers. The Company was also awarded the 2024 AIR Award for Best Independent Classical Album. The Company was delighted to announce a new violin joined its collection of Golden Age string instruments. The 1741 44 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin was acquired by the Company with the assistance of generous donations from Company supporters, to be played by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti. The Company hosted 284 events at its home at ACO On The Pier in the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct and supported 27 arts organisations.