Aiko began violin lessons at the age of three with the Suzuki Method, the world-famous music education program created by her grand-uncle, Dr Shinichi Suzuki. She went on to study at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan, before moving to New York to take up a scholarship at the Juilliard Scho...

ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä shares rare insights into her early life, learning music from a young age, and highlights in her career to date, including joining the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Artistic Director Richard Tognetti sits down with broadcaster Yumi Stynes to unpack the magic of ACO StudioCasts.

ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä reflects on 10 years of ACO Underground - her space for experimenting with sound and music beyond genre lines with fellow ACO and other musicians.

The ACO has acquired its third extraordinary 'Golden Age' Stradivarius violin, the 1732 'ex-Dollfus' Stradivarius, on loan from an anonymous benefactor.

Helena describes the opportunity to be the custodian of the ‘ex-Dollfus’ Stradivarius as a dream come true: “It is an unbelievably wonderful pr...

**HYPNOSIS – the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. Its use in therapy, typically to recover suppressed memories or to allow modifications of behaviour, has been revived but is...

What is it like to inhabit Vaughan Williams’s ‘Lark’, or to be ‘whipped into a frenzy’ by Beethoven’s mighty Grosse Fuge? Richard Tognetti discusses the repertoire of our first ACO StudioCast ‘Rapture & Revolution’, with Yumi Stynes.