Programs
City of Women
City of Women is a collaboration between the AAO and one of Australia's most successful singer-songwriters, Deborah Conway.
Crossing Roper Bar
Hard Core
Hard Core is a collection of new works by Australian composers, performed as part of the 2003 Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
Into The Fire
Into The Fire was premiered at the Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, in October 1996, and in 1999 was recorded on ABC Classics.
Kura Tungar
Kura Tungar: River Songs and Stories continues the successful collaboration between the AAO and Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach. This ambitious new work explores the traditions of the Murray River and its connection with the Indigenous Australians who have been its guardians since Ngurunderi formed it in the Dreamtime. The world premiere of Kura Tungar: River Songs and Stories was in October 2004 during the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
New Project
Passion
Passion saw five members of the AAO responding to J.S Bach's Passion According to St Matthew.
Project
Ringing The Bell Backwards
Ringing The Bell Backwards was the AAO's first project, and still stands as one of contemporary Australian music's most breathtaking accomplishments.
Ruby's Story
Ruby's Story is the AAO's first collaboration with Australian Indigenous musicians, and was premiered in June 2004 as part of Message Sticks, a celebration of Indigenous culture at the Sydney Opera House.
Shorelines
Shorelines premiered Howard Shore's Orbit, a piece commissioned specifically for the AAO by the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. Three works by AAO members were also performed, including the Melbourne premiere of Paul Grabowsky's concerto.
Sita
Sita is music drawn from the acclaimed music theatre production, The Theft Of Sita, and represents another successful cross-cultural collaboration by the AAO, this time with Indonesian musicians.
Testimony
Testimony, a tribute to jazz legend Charlie 'Bird' Parker, was one of the hits of the 2002 Sydney International Festival. It consists of 14 sonnets by Yusuf Komunyakaa set to music by award-winning saxophonist, composer and AAO member Sandy Evans.
The Hollow Air
Traditional Maori instruments, improvisation, sound projection and real time manipulation using MAX/MSP combine in The Hollow Air a fluid, ambient new work co-commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra and the 2007 Auckland Festival. AAO composer and musician Phillip Slater brings together New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Richard Nunns, an established and acclaimed ethnographer and practitioner of over twenty traditional instruments unique to Mäori culture, and sound designer, composer and improviser Greg White with members of the Australian Art Orchestra.
Two Ducks Swimming
In 2000, January 22: Two Ducks Swimming premiered the work of three leading composers from widely different backgrounds: Willy Zygier, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Paul Grabowsky.
Visit the In the Pipeline section for information about works-in-progress.
