Local Violinist set for big year in HIP orchestra!

Julia’s Romantic, Classical Adventures are historically informed.

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Salut! Baroque, Orchestra of the Antipodes, The Muffat Collective, Bach Akademie Australia, and has appeared in many recordings for live broadcast on ABC Classic and Fine Music 102.5.

Julia’s current project The Golden Age Quartet emulates the musical style of early twentieth-century icons such as Rudy Wiedoeft, Daisy Kennedy and The Clive Amadio Quartet and has seen performances across Sydney and on online platforms.

Local musician Julia Russoniello is set to enjoy a big year with the popular Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra as she tours Australia three times in 2023 –including a slew of Sydney performances in venues from Northern and Western Sydney to the CBD.

The peripatetic violinist from Wollstonecraft will join a chamber ensemble from the orchestra in March for its “Vienna Vogue” concerts featuring the music of Mozart, Hummel and Schubert – taking in concerts the Neilson at Pier 2/3, the City Recital Hall, Angel Place and Hills Grammar School in Kenthurst. Then the quintet visit Brisbane, Caloundra, Newcastle, Melbourne, Orange and Canberra.

Later tours take place in June (“New Perspectives” –Beethoven and Louise Farrenc) and August (“Midsummer Dreams” – Mendelssohn and Beethoven).

Like all this popular orchestra’s members, Julia specialises in ‘historically informed performance’ or HIP - with a particular interest in music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Julia is a regular performer with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra,

In 2020 Julia was named a National Archives of Australia postgraduate fellow for her research into the early twentieth-century Australian performing practices. This Viennese Vogue concerts feature her long-time friend, colleague and fellow North Shore musician, Nicole van Bruggen, playing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A on a rare ‘basset clarinet’ – an instrument that captured the imagination of the European music world in the late 1700s. Mozart’s repertoire for the clarinet put it on the map as a solo instrument, and inspired his former student and protégé, Johann Nepomuk Hummel - a celebrated musician and composer in his own right. Hummel’s own Clarinet Quartet is a beautifully balanced work of chamber music and highlights his importance as a bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras.

We will also hear from Hummel’s friend and colleague Franz Schubert, and his unfinished String Trio D.471. Written at the start of one of the happiest and most creatively productive periods of his life, we’ll enjoy Schubert’s brilliance unfolding before your ears in this romantic, lyrical gem.

The 2023 season also features the highly popular Voyage of Musical Discovery education series. Brisbane, Sydney and (for the first time) Melbourne will each enjoy highlights from the touring program plus – in the second half of each Voyage – appearances from a contemporary guest artist or ensemble. The March Voyage - entitled “Design and Innovation” - welcomes composer & pianist Sally Whitwell with soprano Anna Fraser plus a video installation by the fascinating Australian multidisciplinary artist Katy B Plummer.

For full details of the March Viennese Vogue concerts, the full 2023 program, plus bookings visit: www.arco.org.au