Australian Youth Orchestra | Brave New Worlds

Schedule

Fri, 17 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC+09:30

Location

Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin/Larrakia | Darwin, NT

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The Australian Youth Orchestra marks an exciting milestone as it travels to the Top End for the first time in over 30 years before returning to Sydney’s City Recital Hall with a thrilling program featuring Shostakovich’s haunting Cello Concerto No. 1 and the sweeping gestures of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, conducted by the dynamic Antony Hermus.
Internationally acclaimed cellist and AYO alumna, Charlotte Miles, joins as soloist, bringing intensity and nuance to Shostakovich’s powerful work with rhythmic textures and obsessive motifs.
Composed over 150 years apart, both works chart a stylistic evolution from modernist introspection to Romantic grandeur but are united by themes of heroism, defiance, and emotional intensity.
Brett Dean’s Testament - a powerful prelude to the Beethoven both musically and conceptually, is the composer’s response to Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament, reflecting his struggles with deafness and despair, but also his resilience and determination - exactly the same spirit that drives the Eroica. In a way, it feels like the perfect contemporary mirror, opening a door into Beethoven’s world from a 21st-century perspective.
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1
BEETHOVEN Eroica
Brett DEAN Testament
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Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin/Larrakia, 93 Mitchell St, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia, Darwin

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