ACACIA Quartet | Five Chapters

To celebrate its 5th birthday in May 2015, Acacia Quartet, one of Australia’s most exciting and sought-after string quartets, is delighted to present FIVE CHAPTERS, the second program in its 2015 ‘ACACIA Presents...’ series.

Acacia Quartet has fast earned a reputation for inventive programs, delightful delivery and excellent performances of new classical music. ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Limelight Magazine, nominated for an ARIA Award, Acacia embodies “everything one would expect of fine chamber music playing” (Limelight, 2014).

For these special concerts, Acacia proudly presents the world premieres of works by two great Australian composers who have supported the Quartet from its creation in 2010: Elena Kats-Chernin and Lyle Chan. One of our most internationally renowned composers, Kats-Chernin chose Acacia to record her entire string quartets - resulting in the APRA- AMCOS Art Music Award-nominated CD, Blue Silence - and became Patron of the Quartet. Especially arranged for Acacia as a piano quintet, with celebrated pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska (described by BBC Music Magazine as “Australian piano gold”), Five Chapters unites Acacia’s passions for Australian new music and its creators with a nod to their five years together, in a work of mystery and expectation, vivacity, riddles, and spiralling momentum towards time’s inexorable horizons.

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