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.