Peripatetic Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima is coming back to Sydney for the first time since 2014 and will once again be leading the ACO for five special shows.
Titled Sequenza Italiana, the showcase is going to be a mystic journey through 500 years of Italian music-making featuring Sollima’s trademark flamboyance which can see him parade across the stage, a leftover from days of practice “when he’d fancy a cup of coffee or had to answer the doorbell and didn’t want to stop playing”.
Sollima has a voracious musical appetite and thrives on a wide-ranging and ever-changing diet – he composes for electric and acoustic instruments, and has written music for film directors and choreographers including Peter Greenaway, Wim Wenders and Karole Armitage.
Giovanni Sollima will take charge of the ACO at the City Recital Hall over four days between Saturday July 2 and Friday July 8 before concluding his tour with a special show at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday July 10.
