Utzon Music 2025 Annie Jacobs-Perkins

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time – 75 minutes

Solo recitals reveal a musician’s mind and soul

An Utzon and Australian debut from rising star cellist: Berlin-based-American Annie Jacobs-Perkins, playing a strikingly original solo program: dall'Abaco, Madsen, Marais, Salonen, Norman and Bach.

Cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins takes us on a fascinating interior voyage through sound.  The inventiveness of eighteenth-century Italian composer and cellist Joseph dall'Abaco’s Caprices are a recurring thread in this program, heard between contemporary Finnish composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen’s rhapsodic Arabesques for Olly, for cello and samples (the composer’s own re-working of part of his lush cello concerto), and Why Women Weep for cello and tape by Pamela Madsen. Madsen takes a recording of Anaïs Nin reading a fragment of her diary and sets Nin’s elliptical personal odyssey to dreamy music. At the end of this intriguing imaginary journey, Bach’s beloved Cello Suite No 3 serves as safe harbour, a familiarly beautiful place to land.  With a slew of prizes and awards to her young name, and soon to make her solo Wigmore Hall debut, it’s a joy to introduce Annie to Utzon audiences in her first Australian tour. 

Presented by Sydney Opera House

Event details

So haunting and delicate that the audience seemed to hold its breath.

New York State Music

Artist Information

Annie Jacobs-Perkins 
cello

Program

Joseph dall'Abaco Caprice No. 9 in C Major
Marin Marais Les Voix Humaines
Esa-Pekka Salonen Arabesques for Olly  

Joseph dall'Abaco Caprice No. 11 in F Major
Andrew Norman Sabina

Joseph dall'Abaco Caprice No. 1 in C Minor
Pamela Madsen Why Women Weep: It Is the Quickest Way to Rejoin the Ocean 

Johann Sebastian Bach Suite No. 3 BWV 1009 in C Major 
Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrées I & II, Gigue

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Attending this event

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Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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