This tour de force for alto flute by Ian Shanahan, performed spectacularly well by Sarah Beggs.

Four Winds

Dimensiones Paradisi by Ian Shanahan

Sky for 13 strings live performance by Arcko Symphonic Ensemble 20 October 2013

Sky for 13 strings by Barry Conyngham

Ben Opie Soloist with the Arcko Symphonic Ensemble/Timothy Phillips recorded live

Capriccio for oboe & 11 Strings by K. Penderecki

Lim's sumptuous work for 8 strings recorded live by the Arcko Symphonic Ensemble/Timothy Phillips

Gothic for 8 strings by Liza Lim

Arcko Symphonic Ensemble/Timothy Phillips present the Australian premier of Rihm's Chiffre II. Live performance from December 2014.

Chiffre II: silence to be beaten by Wolfgang Rihm

Brendan Colbert's extraordinary flute concerto Shades of Futures Past performed here by Sarah Beggs at an Arcko concert from 2011.

1 Shades of Futures Past

Rohan Phillips sublime work Sarabande for solo piano and small orchestra performed here with by Arcko with the amazing Joy Lee as soloist.

Sarabande for solo piano and small orchestra by Rohan Phillips

Lim's sumptuous septet with Arcko in fine form.

Chamber View-June 

Veils (1999) for mixed ensemble by Liza Lim

Premier performance and recording of Andrew Harrison's If not in this world for sop., baritone and large ensemble.

If Not In This World Roughmix

The premier performance of Christine McCombe's beautiful Night Alchemy, 16 years after it was composed......

Arcko 171027 Christine McCombe - Night Alchemy (2001)

At the heart of Arcko Symphonic Ensemble is the question: what happens to a piece of music once it has been premiered? 

Whilst not precluding the idea of premiering new works or performing the odd foreign piece, Arcko is proud to be performing Australian works for a second and subsequent time. The name is a hybrid of two words: arco - to bow a stringed instrument, and ark, as in Noah's Ark. It is Timothy's intention that Arcko establishes and preserves Australian works for future generations (hence Ark); also, that it would create an arch between canonic, established, and emerging Australian composers. 

As a skilled conductor, percussionist and passionate advocate of Australian music, Phillips draws on his extensive training in Australia and Germany, as well as his vast knowledge of the repertoire collected through years of performing in his homeland and abroad with orchestras, new music ensembles, conductors, composers, chamber music projects, as a solo performer and with performance troupes. Arcko Symphonic Ensemble sees all these elements combine into an organic and vibrant musical experience.

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