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ACO Soloists perform at St Stephen's Festival

We are delighted to announce that on June 10th the ACO soloists will be appearing at the St Stephen's Festival. The programme previews the full chamber orchestra's performance of Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht in July along side other classic works for string quartet.

The concert begins at 7.30pm in St Steven's Church, Gloucester Road, London. Tickets are £10.

See you there!

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The ACO feature in online Magazine

Recently the ACO were the subject of an article entitled 'New Kids on the Block' in online magazine 'The Arbuturian'. The magazine is dedicated to featuring highlights from the worlds of food, fashion, culture and travel, and described the ACO in glowing terms:

" Enthralled, enchanted and enraptured from the very first note, the audience sat in deep but mesmerised thought throughout each of the beautifully played seasons."

"Piazzolla’s four seasons and charismatic red lights took me back to long, languid days and sultry nights spent in the darkened Milongas of Buenos Aires."

As you can imagine, we're very proud of it, but rather than continuing to boast, we'' just let you read the full article here. Enjoy.

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rave reviews for Musical Portraits

The ACO and Clio Gould recieved glowing praise for their recent performance at Cadogan Hall.

Peter Woolf writing in Musical Pointers summed up : "A delightful evening from an eager, young orchestra, with a well conceived thematic programme sequence that worked well and was intelligently prefaced in the programme."

Whilst in the Boulezian Mark Berry noted the "string tone itself was expressively rich, though never overwhelmingly so. The Air (‘Andante religioso’) was sung especially beautifully, never descending into the realms of the maudlin. Gould’s solos proved beguiling, but so did those from other section principals, amongst whom Steffan Rees’s finely shaded cello line deserves especial mention."

Hurrah!

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Nigel Evans joins the Board of Advisors

We're delighted to announce that Nigel Evans MP, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, has joined the ACO's Board of Advisors. Nigel entered Parliament in 1992 as the MP for Ribble Valley.  Nigel has been Oppostion Spokesman for constitutional affiars and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet in 2001 to the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee 2005-2009. In June last year Nigel was elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2010.

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Many congratulations to our newlywed director!

Yes indeed! We're all immensly pleased and proud to report that the ACO's Ben Norris has married fellow violinist (and ACO player) Gail Hernandez Rosa! We'd like to take the credit, but as they started going out before Gail joined the ACO we won't on this occassion. Instead we'll just congratulate them, wish them a wonderful honeymoon, and look forward to seeing them on their return!

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SUCCESS AT SEASON LAUNCH

Thanks to everyone at the Arensky Chamber Orchestra for our successful 2011 season launch concert at Cadogan Hall on January 15th.  It certainly was an eventful evening: a packed Cadogan Hall, broken strings and incredible virtuosity from guest director, Andrew Haveron, all finished off by a standing ovation.  We're so proud of the players and Andrew for getting the ACO off to such a good start!

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ACO'S NEW BOARD OF ADVISORS

After a series of meetings with experts in their fields, the team is pleased to announce the formation of its new Board of Advisors, which will help guide the orchestra to future success! We are very pleased that Levon Chilingirian, Sheila Hayman, Florian Leonhard and Manvinder Rattan have already agreed to aid us in this capacity.

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DINNER IN HONOUR OF NOBEL LAUREATE V S NAIPAUL

Slightly old news here, but we wanted fill you in with the first venture in our partnership with arts promoters Liberatum, and its brilliantly precocious founder, Pablo Ganguli. The ACO were present at a dinner in honour of Trinidadian writer V S Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Following the dinner, members of the ACO entertained a prestigious guest list - including celebrities from Lily Cole and David Gilmour to Martin Amis and Terry Gilliam - with a performance of Grieg's string quartet. The eagle-eyed of you may have spotted our logotype in the Evening Standard as part of their coverage of the event!