2022 Concert Season

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2022 Young Mannheim Symphonists

Applications for the 2022 Young Mannheim Symphonists program are now open! Students can audition to be part of the Young Mannheim Symphonists National Winter Academy and/or to attend one of the three state based Young Mannheim Symphonists Intensives in Queensland, New South Wales or Victoria.

The Young Mannheim Symphonists youth orchestra program is a unique and exciting program designed to give students and emerging musicians the opportunity to discover for themselves the magic of approaching music with historical performance style. As the students are led through great musical masterpieces of the Classical and Romantic periods, and exposed to the knowledge and perception of experienced professional HIP (historically informed performance) musicians, they are inspired by how the music comes to life, and empowered to begin making informed musical decisions on their own.

2022 Voyage of Musical Discovery

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 Voyage is three separate events in Terms 1, 2 and 3 and will be presented in Sydney and Brisbane in 2022. Tickets can be purchased individually or as a subscription.

Each Voyage is equal parts concert and demonstration, and is presented by the co-artistic directors, Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen with musicians of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra in the first half, and with a contemporary guest artist or ensemble featured in the second half.

By placing contemporary Australian music alongside earlier Classical and Romantic works, listeners are shown the many compositional links and similarities in structure, tonality, rhythmic function, orchestration and modes of expression.

“The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra continue to spoil Australian audiences with yet another first-class performance of Classical music. … All in all, this was an inspirational performance that was faultless and energetic and demonstrated a balance between reason and passion, between intellect and spirit.”
State of the Art, 2020

Founded under the artistic direction of renowned musician and educator the late Richard Gill AO and now under the co-artistic direction of Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is a world-class orchestra of leading Australian musicians who are dedicated to the performance of Classical and Romantic orchestral and chamber music repertoire in historically-informed style on period instruments. This inspiring and highly influential period of composition from the late 18th and 19th centuries demonstrates the depth and passion of the time and when placed in context the music comes to life.

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is passionately committed to its education programs. The orchestra offers a unique combination of courses and projects for school- and tertiary-level students, development opportunities for professional musicians and music teachers, and enlightening presentations in tandem with its concerts. Voyage of Musical Discovery is a unique concert series at the City Recital Hall in Sydney exploring Western art music. The youth orchestra program – Young Mannheim Symphonists – introduces students from all over Australia to magnificent music from a fresh new historically informed perspective. At a tertiary and professional level, our musicians offer tuition, workshops, and public master classes whenever they tour nationally.