Award-winning electronic music duo The Presets will join Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra for a tour of genre-bending concerts around Australia in 2014.
The chart-topping duo will feature in Timeline, Tognetti’s kaleidoscopicjourney through 42,000 years of music which has performances in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wollongong next May and June. The Sydney Opera House concerts will be presented in partnership with Vivid LIVE, part of the Vivid Sydney festival of light, music and ideas.
Single tickets for all concerts in the ACO’s 2014 national concert season, including Timeline, go on sale on Thursday 5 December.
Timeline is a sonic and visual journey bringing together the ACO, The Presets, a cappella vocalists and stunning visual elements to trace the evolution of music in concerts Richard Tognetti has dubbed “Life flashes before your ears”.
The program will include music by Hildegard von Bingen, Gesualdo,Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Mozart, Bartók, Schoenberg, Reich, Jelly Roll Morton, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Mariah Carey and more. The music will be combined with engrossing visual effects, all marshalled by acclaimed major-events director Ignatius Jones.
The Presets’ vocalist/keyboardist Julian Hamilton and drummer/keyboardist Kim Moyes are both classically trained, having met while studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, so they’re relishing the opportunity to perform with the acclaimed ACO, hailed by London’s Daily Telegraph as “probably the finest string ensemble on the planet”. The duo has been involved in developing the Timeline program with Richard Tognetti, with a focus on the curation, assemblage and performance of the 20th-century program.
“While we have enjoyed recognition in the contemporary music sector, our influences and our musical background have always been very broad, and have informed the music we create to this day,” they said. “We were honoured to be asked to be contribute to Timeline – it’s a privilege to select so many meaningful works for the piece, and to work with the ACO.”
Richard Tognetti said: “From the rhythmic magnetism of their songs to their haunting vocals, The Presets are a very important musical outfit and they will bring something special to Timeline.”
The ACO has also announced the name of the much-anticipated Jonny Greenwood commission to be premiered next year. Water, written by the Radiohead guitarist especially for the ACO, will have its Australian premiere next October/November as part of the Tognetti’s Beethovenconcerts in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
Greenwood, a respected and award-winning composer of classical works and scores for films including There Will Be Blood and The Master, workshopped Water with the Orchestra in its Sydney studio at the conclusion of Radiohead’s world tour in late 2012. Thanks to these sessions, Water has become a very different piece from Greenwood’s first ideas. “I’m so used to closely recorded sounds, it’s always a jolt to realise that the ‘in the room’ sound of an orchestra is a different animal from a recording,” Greenwood says.
After his Sydney sojourn, Greenwood travelled through India, and a steady diet of Indian classical music had a big influence on his approach to Water. “The space in Indian classical music and the textures were a big influence on the commission,” he says.
Timeline, featuring The Presets, will be performed in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wollongong from 20 May – 4 June.Timeline is presented by the ACO’s Principal Partner, Virgin Australia.
Tognetti’s Beethoven, which includes the Australian premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s Water, will be performed in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney from 26 October – 3 November.
Single tickets for the ACO’s 2014 national concert season are available from 5 December from www.aco.com.au or 1800 444 444.
ADELAIDE DATE
Tuesday, June 3, 8pm, at Adelaide Town Hall
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