CREATIVE TEAM

Artistic Director & Violin Richard Tognetti
Producer & Director Mick Sowry Writer
Director of Photography Jon Frank
Executive Producer Simon Yeo
Editors Mick Sowry & Jon Frank
Director of Surfing Derek Hynd
Second Camera & IT Edward Saltau
Music Technology & Artistic Assistant Joseph Nizeti
Source: ACO Reef Sydney

 

THE REEF – ACO 2013

ARROW Collective commission was a co-production with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tura New Music, created at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia in May 2012.

Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and filmmakers to Ningaloo Reef, where the desert meets the sea.

They spent two unforgettable weeks surfing, making music and filming with the result being “The Reef”.

Immerse yourself in Jon Frank’s images of the ocean, the world’s best fin-free surfers, the arid desert landscape and the starry sky, as an incredible array of music swirls around you. It alters your perception of a classical music concert through the prism of a transcendental surf film. You’ll never forget it.

“The Reef strikes bravely into new territory… it opens with a wonderful and unprecedented marriage of surfing to a Tchaikovsky waltz and features a glaci…” Sydney Morning Herald

  • 2012-2013 Australian Debut 

  • 2016 US & Canada (& Australia ‘Revisited’)
    The Reef successfully tours the US & Canada to critical acclaim and demand for more performances.

  • 2017 London, UK
    The Reef debuts in London at the Barbican Centre to a sold out performance.

THE REEF – PROGRAM (2016)

IAIN GRANDAGE / MARK ATKINS Immutable
PIGRAM (arr. Grandage) Being
PIGRAM / S. PIGRAM (arr. Grandage) Saltwater Cowboy
PIGRAM / S. PIGRAM / WASILIEV (arr. Grandage) Mimi
RICHARD TOGNETTI (real. Grandage) Heart of the Black Beast
RICHARD TOGNETTI Bathymetry
RICHARD TOGNETTI Beyond
GEORGE CRUMB God Music from Black Angels
RAMEAU Suite des Vents from Les Boréades
GEORGE CRUMB Electric Insects from Black Angels
LIGETI Ramifications
JS BACH (arr. Tognetti) Fugue from Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV1001
KILAR Orawa
ALICE IN CHAINS Them Bones
RACHMANINOV Vocalise
SHOSTAKOVICH (arr. Barshai) Allegro molto from Chamber Symphony, Op.110a
RICHARD TOGNETTI The Walk
RICHARD TOGNETTI Dugong
RICHARD TOGNETTI Hypnosis
RICHARD TOGNETTI Visitation
RICHARD TOGNETTI Heston
RICHARD TOGNETTI Transfiguration
BEETHOVEN Cavatina from String Quartet No.13 in B-flat major, Op.130

The reef Investors

Jane Albert
Steven Alward / Mark Wakely
Ian Andrew / Jane Hall
Michael Austin / Jane McDermott
Alex Burger / Toni Frecker
Tony Cavanagh / Jann Gardner
Anne Coombs / Susan Varga
Peter Cudlipp / Barbara Schmidt
Amy Denmeade
John Gaden
Cathy Gray
Susan Johnston / Pauline Garde
Brian Kelleher
Andrew Leece
Macquarie Foundation
Rhonda McIver
Scott Marincheck / David Wynne
Kate Mills
Nicola Penn
Martin Portus
Janne Ryan
Richard Steele
Mischa Way / Steven Wells

GET INVOLVED

For more information on this project, and how you can be involved, contact ARROW Collective Founder/Curator, Janne Ryan info@arrowcollective.org