Collaborations with classical musicians featuring video
projections behind live orchestra.
The Crowd & I - 2022
Over ten years in the making, join Richard Tognetti as he directs the ACO live on stage alongside striking imagery and footage captured across the globe in the centrepiece of our 2022 Season, The Crowd & I. From the banks of the Ganges to the mosh pits of Coachella; sprawling refugee camps to ever-expanding metropolises, humanity moves in swarms across the globe in ever vaster numbers, to celebrate, worship, protest, destroy and build anew.
Featuring music by Bach, Chopin, Shostakovich and Richard Tognetti, this profound cross-artform collaboration between Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, director Nigel Jamieson and cinematographer Jon Frank sees the ACO explore humanity’s complex existence on our densely populated planet. Discover the new ways in which we have come to live with one another, crowded together and separated from nature.
Jubilant, chaotic, and confronting in equal measure, in the tradition of Mountain, The Reef and Luminous, The Crowd & I promises to be a life-changing experience.
“What is it we feel when part of a crowd? Is it fear or empowerment? Do we lose ourselves, or find our real selves?” – Richard Tognetti
Tabula Rasa - 2021
Directed by Matisse Ruby and filmed at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, this spectacular concert film features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti leading the ACO through performances of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, integrated with imagery and video projections by renowned cinematographer Jon Frank and Beizj Studio.
The Glide - 2009/ 2011
Premiered at Festival Maribor, Slovenia in 2009 and also performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a series of three concerts in Melbourne and Sydney in 2011.
Dream from The Glide. Music by Richard Tognetti.
Sequence from The Glide. Music by Richard Tognetti.
Sospiri from The Glide. Music by Richard Tognetti.
The Reef - 2012
In his most adventurous project to date, Richard Tognetti takes musicians and surfers to the rugged surf coast and tough desert landscape of northern Western Australia to create a new performance piece at the intersection of music and nature.
Performed at The Sydney Opera House, The Walt Disney Concert Hall & The Barbican. Broadcast on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Bathymetry from The Reef. Directed by Mick Sowry. Music by Richard Tognetti.
The Crowd - 2010
With a hundred people on stage, two thousand in the audience and countless thousands from all walks of life projected onto the big screen, it's time for you to join the crowd.
Premiered in Maribor, Slovenia in 2010, and opened the Melbourne Festival at The Palais Theatre, 2013.
“What is it we feel when part of a crowd? Is it fear or empowerment? Do we lose ourselves, or find our real selves? Is a crowd a mob, an ignorant mass of unthinking beings? Or is it an intelligent body, capable of thought processes and invention of which individuals alone would not be capable? We spend much of our life in crowds: when we go to the football or attend a concert, when we cross the street at peak hour, when we worship, mourn, protest or feast, we often do so as part of a crowd. The Crowd examines the nature of the crowd, in its many manifestations, both human and in the natural world.”
Excerpts from The Crowd. Music by Richard Tognetti.
Unasnswered Question by Charles Ives from The Crowd. Music by Richard Tognetti.
Electronic - 2016
Violinists Richard Tognetti and Satu Vänskä collaborate with pioneering electronic artists from the Guildhall School for a concert at the Barbican Centre.
Three Places in New England - 2013/ 2014
Commissioned video work in collaboration with Aurora Orchestra (UK) for performance of Mememnto, featuring Ives’ Three Places in New England. Conducted by Nicholas Collon. Part of Deal Festival of Music & the Arts and The City of London Festival. Also performed at the Melbourne Festival with ANAM Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2014. Review of Melbourne concert here.
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