Australian soprano Nicole Car is one of the brightest stars in international opera and available from today is her second album Heroines, from ABC Classics, recorded live in concert with the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed and led from the violin by Richard Tognetti with a cameo solo by ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä. In April 2018, Nicole joined the…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s April series marks the debut of soprano Nicole Car with the ensemble and is also the first concert at which ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä will play the magnificent 1726 Belgiorno Stradivarius violin, recently loaned to the ACO. In her only Australian orchestral appearance in 2018, Car and the ACO will perform a…
The name Stradivarius is associated with the very best in violins and now, the Australia Chamber Orchestra is the proud owner of one of these instruments. The ACO has announced that Chairman Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM and Michelle Belgiorno-Nettis have purchased a 1726 Stradivarius violin and will make it available for long-term loan to the orchestra….