AYO and Accenture donate instruments to Victorian bushfire primary schools.
13 February 2009
Australian Youth Orchestra, together with Principal Sponsor Accenture, have announced a commitment to provide musical instruments to the primary schools destroyed in the Victorian bushfires.
The announcement was made by Brigid Coleridge, this year's Concertmaster of the Australian Youth Orchestra, at a concert in Parliament House on Wednesday 11 February, which marked the end of the orchestra's Feburary 2009 season.
The orchestra, who had travelled through some of the fire-ravaged Victorian landscape as they made their way from Melbourne to Canberra, went on to perform ‘Nimrod’ from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, in dedication to those affected by the fires.