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Utzon Music 2025 Annie Jacobs-Perkins

12 October 2025

In the Utzon Room

Classical Music

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.

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

New York State Music

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Solo recitals reveal a musician’s mind and soul

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

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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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