SATU VÄNSKÄ UNLEASHES SATU IN THE BEYOND
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Three concerts will be performed, one in Sydney and two in Melbourne.
Follow https://www.instagram.com/satuinthebeyond/ for updates
Satu in the Beyond – SYDNEY
Thursday August 20 7pm
The Neilson, Pier 23 at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Satu in the Beyond - MELBOURNE
Friday 21st August (2 shows)
7:00pm & 9:30pm
The Night Cat, 137 - 141 Johnston St, Fitzroy
Tickets on sale Monday 15 June at https://thenightcat.com.au/
ALBUM
Far Field Theory
August 2026
SATU VÄNSKÄ UNLEASHES SATU IN THE BEYOND:
A GENRE-BENDING, BOUNDARY PUSHING, LIVE EXPERIENCE
Celebrated music-maker Satu Vänskä steps into the beyond in Sydney and Melbourne
Internationally renowned virtuoso violinist Satu Vänskä, Principal Violin with the acclaimed boundary-pushing Australian Chamber Orchestra, has announced a debut album Far Field Theory and live gigs to accompany the release with her band, Satu In The Beyond. Images and audio HERE and interviews welcomed.
Experimental Electro-Industrial Pop with punk influences, this is a group that is unapologetically off script.
Satu In The Beyond will tour Sydney and Melbourne in August along with the release of Far Field Theory.
Rapidly earning an enthusiastic cult following since it was formed in 2022, Satu In The Beyond is not a traditional performance; it’s a live, evolving soundscape where strings, synth, distortion and rhythm collide.
Emerging from the late-night creative energy of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s underground offshoot, ACO Underground, the project has grown into a fully realised band, one that trades genre labels for instinct. The influences are wide-reaching from Marianne Faithfull to European modernism, American minimalism, and German and Japanese electronica, creating something that feels both layered and instinctive.
Satu In the Beyond features Vänskä on violin and vocals, alongside ACO Artistic Director Richard Tognetti on electric violin, producer Paul Beard (and MD for the likes of Lilly Allen, Robbie Williams amongst others), Bree van Reyk on drums, Kiah Gossner on electric bass, Ollie Thorpe on electric guitar.
“As we continued to evolve from the ACO Underground project, we realised there was more and more original material written by Richard with more electronic instruments involved than acoustic ones… and it became liberating. We created our own sound with the sonic mix of the old and new,” said Vänskä, who began violin lessons at only three years old as a student in Japan, before her family relocated to their native Finland when she was 10.
After joining the ACO in 2004, she has ever since called Australia home for more than 20 years.
At its core, Satu in the Beyond is about creative momentum, and a refusal to stand still. “It’s about contributing to the present soundscape… pushing beyond what’s expected, and having fun with it,” she said.
Their debut album Far Field Theory captures that energy. It’s a collection of work developed over years, shaped into something immersive, spacious and unpredictable. Performed live, that translates into something magnetic.
“As a musician who spends a lot of time playing the western classical canon on an instrument made a few hundred years ago, there’s also a burn to be creative in the present, in a way that is outside the comfort zone that your audiences are used to seeing you, that is exciting… The whole process of producing something out of nothing… that’s the joy,” said Satu.
Three concerts will be performed, one in Sydney and two in Melbourne.
Follow https://www.instagram.com/satuinthebeyond/ for updates
Satu in the Beyond – SYDNEY
Thursday August 20 7pm
The Neilson, Pier 23 at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Satu in the Beyond - MELBOURNE
Friday 21st August (2 shows)
7:00pm & 9:30pm
The Night Cat, 137 - 141 Johnston St, Fitzroy
Tickets on sale Monday 15 June at https://thenightcat.com.au/
ALBUM
Far Field Theory
August 2026
ABOUT SATU VÄNSKÄ
Born to a Finnish family in Japan, violinist Satu Vänskä has an international profile through her role as Principal Violin with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a position that she has held for the past twenty years. In that time she has both directed and performed as soloist with the ACO, an ensemble regarded as one of the greatest chamber orchestras in the world, hailed for its striking virtuosity and innovative programming. As a soloist, here in Australia Satu enjoys performing with the country’s leading orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven Violin Concerto with Umberto Clerici) the Tasmania Symphony and West Australia Symphony Orchestras (both in a play/direct role). As a recitalist Satu performs at the most prestigious venues including Melbourne Recital Centre, Ukaria Cultural Centre, Canberra International and Adelaide Festivals. Further afield, Satu performs with the Artik Philharmonic in Norway, with London’s Aurora Orchestra (in the London season of Weimar Cabaret with the late Barry Humphries), Sinfonia Lahti and at the Festival Maribor in Slovenia.
As a vocalist Satu has appeared in many major halls around the world with ACO’s multimedia projects Mountain, The Reef, The Crowd and River. Satu took her first violin lessons at the age of three in Japan, before her family relocated to Finland when she was 10, where she continued her studies with Pertti Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy. She later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich as a pupil of Ana Chumachenco.
For imagery and interviews please contact Kath Rose on 0416 291 493 or email [email protected]
Contact details:
Kath Rose on 0416 291 493 or email [email protected]
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Celebrated music-maker Satu Vänskä steps into the beyond in Sydney and Melbourne
