Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s 2022 Concert Season

The past two years have taught Rachael Beesley & Nicole van Bruggen, Co-Artistic Directors of Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, a great many things, but what they have learned above all else is how deeply and profoundly they love performing with their dear friends and colleagues, and for you, their loyal friends and audience.

So it is with renewed enthusiasm and resolve that they present this series of concerts to INSPIRE, EDUCATE and ENLIGHTEN, with some of the most beautiful music ever composed, from the salons of Vienna to the stages of Tin Pan Alley, from the damnation of Don Giovanni to the celestial grandeur of Jupiter.

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s 2022 Concert Season is a multi-state season with additional concerts and education programs to be announced throughout the year.

Visit their website regularly to be kept up to date with performances for audiences throughout metropolitan and regional New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT.

In addition to their main concert series, Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s education programs nurture and develop the next generation so that audiences can enjoy historical perspectives and insights for many years to come.

PROGRAM 2022 SNAPSHOT

NORTHERN SERENADES
ELGAR | HOLST | SCHUMANN | WOLF | HERBERT 
Exquisite and expressive string music that was being written in the late 19th century.
Works by Elgar, Wolf and Holst are among their best-loved, while Victor Herbert’s is a neglected gem. And the richness of these pieces is complemented by Australian composer Shauna Beesley’s arrangement of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke for clarinet and strings, commissioned for this tour and here receiving its world premiere.
Sunday 20 March to Saturday 26 March

AUSTRIAN ENCOUNTERS 
MOZART | JOSEPH HAYDN | MICHAEL HAYDN
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra are excited to collaborate with Australian Boys Choir, The Vocal Consort and conductor Nicholas Dinopoulos for Austrian Encounters to present some of the finest 19th-century choral repertoire in Melbourne and Geelong.
Saturday 21 May and Sunday 22 May

SOUNDS OF VIENNA 
EYBLER | SCHUBERT
Sounds of Vienna then takes us into the early 1800s, when Vienna was the epicentre of the music world. This dynamic and vibrant culture is perfectly represented by Joseph Eybler’s sparkling Quintet, and Schubert’s mighty and beloved Octet, a towering piece of chamber music at its most ambitious.
Sunday 29 May to Thursday 16 June

TEMPESTUOUS SKIES
MOZART
Mozart’s Serenata Notturna was written for outdoor evening performance, with Jupiter, the subject of his final, great symphony, gazing down. Far from heavenly is the carnal and tempestuous Don Giovanni, though the music is sublime, as is the twenty-third Piano Concerto, here performed by Neal Peres Da Costa.
Sunday August 21 to Thursday August 25

VOYAGE OF MUSICAL DISCOVERY
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s flagship education program, Voyage of Musical Discovery, continues in Sydney in 2022, and will be presented in Brisbane for the first time, further developing our national music education activities. In tandem with the concert season, the Voyage will be presented to thousands of high school students and members of the general concert-going public.

Detailed program information is available on the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra‘s website

Photo credit: Robert Catto