ACOCO The Open Road

American-born, Melbourne-based mezzo-soprano Margaret Trubiano premieres Australian/Dutch composer Kate Moore’s cycle The Open Road , bringing Walt Whitman’s stirring celebration in casting off constraint in pursuit of freedom and self-discovery into the 21st century. Margaret Trubiano is joined by harpist Tijana Kozarcic , Coady Green on keyboard, and Mat Jodrell on flugelhorn.

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel takes poems by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson to follow a wanderer through freedom, longing, love, memory and homecoming. Enduring melodies give intimate voice to the exhilaration - and solitude - of a life lived on the move. Performed as a split cycle, led by baritone Darcy Carroll with ACOCO Rising Artists, and pianist Sangmi Kim making her ACOCO debut.

Together, these entrancing song cycles bridge twentieth-century English music and twenty-first-century Australian wanderlust , inviting us to leave, journey, seek - and find beauty in the road itself.