Richard Leo Tognetti AO (born 4 August 1965) is a leading

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n musician recognised internationally as a

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soloist, ensemble player,

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and

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, conductor and

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. He is currently artistic director and leader of the

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(ACO) and artistic director of the Festival Maribor in

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Training period

Born in Australia's capital city

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, Tognetti was already playing the violin at the age of four. He was raised in

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where he began his violin studies with Harold Brissenden, the retired Scottish violist

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and his wife Hiroko who was a

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specialist. At the age of 11 he was admitted to the

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and continued his tertiary studies at the

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. His teacher was Alice Waten, herself a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and former student of Valery Klimov and

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. While there Tognetti became leader and soloist of the chamber orchestra conducted by John Painter who was the Conservatorium's Director and later founder of ACO. In 1980 he won the National Youth Concerto Competition held in

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by the

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. In 1987 Tognetti left Australia for post-graduate studies with

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at the Bern Conservatory (now known as the

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). During his time there he became a member of and soloist with the prestigious

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, gave solo performances with the

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, and was guest concertmaster of the

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. Finally, at the end of his studies in 1989 he was awarded the Eduard Tschumi Musikpreis as the best graduate performer of that year.

Appointment to the Australian Chamber Orchestra

On return to Australia that same year Tognetti was appointed first as leader and then as artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a remarkable development for a musician just 25 years old at the time. 2020 marked the 30th anniversary of his leadership of the orchestra. During that time ACO has become regarded as one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. It tours several times a year around Australia presenting concerts in

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, Canberra,

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, Sydney and Wollongong and participates regularly in various Australian arts festivals. Its annual overseas visits have taken it to the UK and Europe, North America and Asia where it has been heard in some of the greatest concert halls including

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and

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’s Symphony Hall and

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. It has held residencies in

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, a three-year post in London as International Associate Ensemble at the Barbican Centre's Milton Court, and through Tognetti's role as artistic director of Slovenia's Maribor Festival has had regular engagements there. ACO's reputation has been affirmed in the Australian and international media. For example, Vincent Plush in

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said, "The Australian Chamber Orchestra is uniformly high-octane, arresting and never ordinary",

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' Jeremy Eichler noted "virtuoso ensemble playing and an invigorating spontaneity that seemed to flow from Mr Tognetti's charismatic leadership",

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described the orchestra as having "the energy and vibe of a rock band with the ability of a crack classical chamber group", the

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's Mark Swed said, "this red hot band is long overdue for a major record contract and star treatment", Andrew Clements from the UK's

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declared, "If there’s a better chamber orchestra in the world today, I haven’t heard it", and London's ''

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'' hailed one of its appearances there by saying, "This must be the best chamber orchestra on earth."

Tognetti as performer, composer and arranger

Tognetti himself is an extremely versatile violinist with repertoire that covers all periods from the

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onwards. As his rapid professional progress suggests, Tognetti is highly regarded as a soloist with the opinions of many expressed in a review from the UK's The Telegraph: "He is one of the most characterful, incisive and impassioned violinists to be heard today." Tognetti uses a number of violins according to need, most frequently the 1743

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violin he has on extended loan from an anonymous owner. Others include period, modern and

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instruments. For example, in 1999 he and Australian rock musician

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co-wrote for an international millennium broadcast a work called The Ghost of Time for electric violin and orchestra and he performed it with the

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on 31 December of that year. Other works by Tognetti include '' The Red Tree'' for children's choir, chamber orchestra and projected images, co-written with Australian composer

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and inspired by

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's illustrated book of the same name, music for

Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir ( ; born August 21, 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He's known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), ''Gallipoli'' (1981), ''Witness ...

's motion picture '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' co-written with Iva Davies and Christopher Gordon, and his music integrated with that of other composers in his documentaries such as ''Musica Surfica'', ''The Reef'', ''The Glide'', ''The Crowd'' and ''Mountain''. ''Musica Surfica'', his film about music and his hobby surfing, won Best Feature at the 2008 New York Surf Film Festival. As an arranger Tognetti has created repertoire for many different ensembles including ACO who have performed and recorded these works. Composers have included Janáček ( String Quartet No 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'), Szymanowski (String Quartet No 2, Op 56), Haas ( String Quartet No 2, Op. 7 'From the Monkey Mountains'), Paganini (Tognetti's own work Caprice on Caprices based on two of the original Caprices for solo violin),

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( String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D 810 'Death and the Maiden'),

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( Violin Sonata No 9 in A major, Op 47 'Kreutzer'), Grieg ( String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 27),

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( String Quartet in F major) and

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). Along with his busy schedule with ACO, Tognetti has appeared with other ensembles such as the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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(Boston), the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra and all the major Australian symphony orchestras, particularly the

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and

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with whom he has appeared as soloist and director. He has also performed with various musicians from different genres including an appearance with Scottish classical accordionist

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at the Opening Ceremony of the 2003

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. At the 2001

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he made his debut as an opera conductor with

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's production of

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, K 87.

Recordings

As a soloist Tognetti has made many recordings including the violin concertos of

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ABC4765691), Beethoven (ABC Classics ABC4654252), Mozart ( BIS BISSACD1754 & BISSACD1755)

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(BIS BISCD2103) and Antonín Dvořák, Dvořák (BIS BISCD1708) as well as chamber works such as Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Bach), Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001–1006 (ABC Classics ABC4768051) and the Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019, Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 (ABC Classics ABC4765942). Either leading or conducting ACO in association with other international musicians he has also recorded many works including Beethoven's piano concertos with Stephen Kovacevich (EMI Records, EMI Eminence CD-EMX 2177 (nla), CD-EMX2190 (nla) & CD-EMX 2184 (nla), Bach's keyboard concertos with Angela Hewitt (Hyperion Records, Hyperion CDA 67307 & CDA 67308), Vivaldi's flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud (EMI Classics 0946 3 47212 2 6), Dmitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich), Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 107 with Pieter Wispelwey (Channel Classics Records, Channel Classics CCS 15395), Baroque trombone repertoire with Christian Lindberg (BIS BISCD1688), Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 with Dejan Lazić (Channel Classics CCS SA 30511), Haydn's cello concertos with Daniel Müller-Schott (Orfeo (record label), Orfeo C080031A), and a ground-breaking 2000 collaboration with Australia's Rock music, rock singer and former politician Peter Garrett and cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator Michael Leunig which resulted in the release of a recording of Camille Saint-Saëns, Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals accompanying a book of Leunig's text and illustrations (Sydney: Macmillan Publishers, Macmillan, 2000. .).

Personal life

Tognetti was first married to winemaker Susie Roberts. They had a son, Leonardo, in 2002, and were divorced in 2005. He is now married to violinist Satu Vänskä, the assistant leader of the ACO. He has a brother, Simon Tognetti who is an Arts teacher in Wollongong, Australia.

Honours and awards

In 1997 Tognetti received an Honorary degree, honorary Doctor of Creative Arts degree from the University of Wollongong, the youngest recipient ever to receive such an award from that university. This was followed in 2003 with an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Western Australia and in 2005 with an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Sydney. In 1999 Tognetti was declared a Australian Living Treasures, National Living Treasure, an award administered by the National Trust of Australia and based on popular vote. On Australia Day 2010 Tognetti was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to music through leadership of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as an internationally acclaimed violinist, through the development and promotion of educational programs for children, support for emerging artists and contributions to charitable organisations.

AIR Awards

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APRA Music Awards

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(William Barton, Piers Burbrook de Vere & Richard Tognetti) , Best Original Song Composed for the Screen , , , -

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The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.ARIA Best Classical Album lis

Accessed 5 September 2019. , - , ARIA Music Awards of 1993, 1993 , ''Janáček: Kreutzer Sonata for Strings, Barber: Adagio for Strings, Walton: Sonata for Strings'' (with

) , rowspan="10", ARIA Award for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Album , , - , rowspan="2", ARIA Music Awards of 1994, 1994 , ''Mendelssohn: Octet in E Flat for Strings Op. 20 Sinfonia No. 9 in C. Swiss'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ''Symphony Serenades and Suites'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2000, 2000 , ''Beethoven Violin Concerto & Mozart Symphony No. 40'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2006, 2006 , ''Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin'' , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2007, 2007 , ''Bach Violin Concertos'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2008, 2008 , ''Bach Sonatas for Violin & Keyboard'' (with Neal Peres Da Costa & Daniel Yeadon) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2010, 2010 , ''Mozart Violin Concertos'' (with Christopher Moore & Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2011, 2011 , ''Mozart Violin Concertos Vol 2'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2016, 2016 , ''Mozart's Last Symphonies'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2017, 2017 , ''Mountain'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra]) , ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album, Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 2019, 2019 , ''Heroines'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra & Nicole Car) , rowspan="2", Best Classical Album , , - , 2020 ARIA Music Awards, 2020 , ''Beethoven & Mozart Violin Sonatas'' (with Erin Helyard) , , - , 2022 ARIA Music Awards, 2022 , ''River'' (with Australian Chamber Orchestra) , Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album , , -

Bernard Heinze Memorial Award

The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia. ! , - , 2005 , , Richard Tognetti , , Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award , , , , , -

Helpmann Awards

The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group ''Live Performance Australia'' since 2001. Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ! , - , rowspan="2" , 17th Helpmann Awards, 2017 , , Himself , , JC Williamson Award , , , , rowspan="2" , , - , ''Bach Violin Concertos'' - Richard Tognetti , , Best Individual Classical Performance , ,

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Richard Tognetti won three awards in that time. (wins only) , - , 1992 , Richard Tognetti , Classical Performance of the Year , , - , 1993 , Richard Tognetti , Classical Performance of the Year , , - , 1994 , Richard Tognetti , Classical Performance of the Year , , -

References

External links

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