ACO with Dawn Upshaw - the Grammy winning concert

Helene Rathbone

The Australian Chamber Orchestra lead by Helena Rathbone is wowing audiences with their concert featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw singing Grieg, Rautavaara and Maria Schneider's Winter Morning Walks, the  song cycle that recently won them three Grammy awards.

They are getting great reviews and deservedly. I imagine the concert will be broadcast but I think it is the sort of repertoire that is best heard live.

Fabulous evening - thank you Helena and ACO!

ACO2

Today I heard the youth branch of the Australian Chamber Orchestra play, the young musicians who are being mentored by the ACO (particularly Helena Rathbone) and who perform throughout regional Australia. Their current tour is giving them exposure to metropolitan audiences. The twelve young musicians and their five ACO mentors acquitted themselves wonderfully well at Sydney's Angel Place concert hall.

Bravo ACO2. Bravo ACO mentors.

(and cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott from Munich who played with them was a real treat!)