Celebrating connection and story: Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s 75th anniversary season

‘Every large centre of population, every city, needs connections. We need connections with culture, with expression beyond our everyday articulations, and that can be [achieved through] music, art, dance, all forms of human artistic expression,’ says Jessica Cottis, the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO).

‘For me, in creating a program – and this has certainly been the case in previous years with the CSO and with much of my programming around the world as well – is that when I sit down with a blank piece of paper, there will always be one key work that I then build the rest of the program around. And in this season, the idea was “stories”,’ she explains.