ARTISTS & PROGRAM

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
Rachael Beesley | director

Edward ELGAR | Serenade for Strings (1892)
Gustav HOLST | St Paul’s Suite (1912/3)

Nonsemble

Chris PERREN | Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke (2014)

The Voyage of Musical Discovery series was established and designed by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and its founding artistic director and world-renowned educator, the late Richard Gill.

The first Voyage of Musical Discovery introduces, demonstrates and explains key concepts of design and innovation in music across the centuries. 

These two works by Elgar and Holst were created to be performed by talented secondary school musicians. In their early days as composers, both used different techniques to manipulate tone colour and this affected the very structure of the music in these two works for strings.

In the second half, new music ensemble Nonsemble shows how these threads have evolved in music of the present day – including blurring genres and integrating acoustic and electronic instruments.

Images from Voyage of Musical Discovery | Motivic Development at City Recital Hall in 2021

Photos by Robert Catto

For Students

This program is closely aligned with the QCAA secondary school music curriculum and ideal for Senior Music and Music Extension students in preparation for their internal assessments and external exams, as well as being appropriate for year nine and ten elective music students.

Curriculum LINKS

Core elements of composition, performance and musicology and how they connect between modern Australian music and Classical and Romantic repertoire.

TICKETS

All tickets can be reserved by emailing boxoffice@arco.org.au

Single Voyage Student | $17.50
Single Voyage Adult | $32.50

3 Voyage Subscription Student | $47
3 Voyage Subscription Adult | $87.50

Unsure of class size? Email boxoffice@arco.org.au to reserve your place now and confirm numbers by Term 4, 2021.

Special Offer

One complimentary teacher subscription for every 15 student subscriptions (available by emailing boxoffice@arco.org.au).