Category: Maxime Bibeau

Photo by Marco Borggreve Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). Tour Five: BAREFOOT FIDDLER: Patricia Kopatchinskaja in the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. Patricia Kopatchinskaja is known as the Barefoot Fiddler, because she is bare-footed when she plays her violin, and on this tour is the guest artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, (ACO), and, as with her stint with the orchestra in July 2010 is the Director of the program and lead violinist. It is as physically dynamic as last time and just as musically thrilling. Ms Kopatchinskaja has organised for this visit, a program to utilise the individual solo talents of…

Guest Pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents Tour Four, TROUT QUINTET and QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME in the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presented Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, ‘Trout” Op.114,D.667 (Composed1819, published 1829) and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (1941). Helena Rathbone (Violin), Christopher Moore (Viola), Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello), Maxime Bibeau (Double Bass) were joined by guest artist Saleem Abboud Ashkar (Piano) for the five movement “Trout” Quintet. This is a piece of some familiarity for me. It was a joy to…

  Australian Chamber Orchestra present Tour Five; Marwood, Mozart & Mendelssohn. Guest Director Anthony Marwood at Angel Place Sydney. Guest Director, Anthony Marwood, of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, has chosen a very exciting program ranging form Mozart’s (1776) and Mendelssohn’s (1822-1824) work to contemporary compositions by Golijov, Kinsella, Vine and a recently commissioned Transcription of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor for Violin by Orlando Jopling. The music choices span history and the principal effect is one of joy ,surprise, apprised virtuosity, of both The Orchestra and Mr Marwood, and an elegant statement about the timelessness of good music, well…