ACO Dawn Upshaw, Elgar & Grieg at Concert Hall, QPAC

Following a hugely successful US tour and a critically acclaimed recording, we bring you the Australian premiere of Winter Morning Walks, featuring four-time Grammy Award-winner Dawn Upshaw. Commissioned specially for the ACO and Dawn Upshaw and featuring a trio of brilliantly versatile US jazz musicians, this touching new piece by fellow Grammy Award-winner Maria Schneider has been called “music to fall in love with the first time – then immediately want to hear again.” (NPR) We match this Australian first with a flourish of Romantic string orchestra works – Elgar’s exhilarating Introduction and Allegro and Grieg’s enduringly popular Holberg Suite, which we intersperse with songs by Grieg and Rautavaara.