Concorde Concert: 21st Century Women in Ireland

Saturday 17 April 2010 | 5.20pm  – 6.30 pm

 

Renehan Hall, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Tickets: €10 (€5 student)

Tickets are available on the door or they can be reserved in advance by contacting Jenny O'Connor, jenny.m.oconnor@nullgmail.com
 

Concorde

Jane O’Leary: piano, director; Tine Verbeke: soprano; Madeleine Staunton: flute/alto flute; Paul Roe: clarinet/bass clarinet; Elaine Clark: violin; David James: cello
 
21st Century Women in Ireland

Emma OHalloran           A Chosen Landscape  (clarinet, cello, piano)   2009   
Rhona Clarke                8 Improvisations for alto flute   2006  
Alyson Barber               Bóithre Bána  (soprano & cello)    2009    
Deirdre McKay             Umber sepia   (bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano)    2005    
Alyson Barber               Bothar na Sióga  (flute & piano)   2008  
Elaine Agnew                Snowhole (soprano & cello)   2003   
Jane OLeary                 Soundshapes (soprano, violin, clarinet, alto flute)  2006    
 
Concorde present a concert of music by a selection of Irish women composers to close the international conference, Women and Music in Ireland, at NUI Maynooth on Saturday April 17.  The works represent a variety of styles and instrumentation but were all written in the 21st century and have featured in programmes presented by Concorde at the National Gallery of Ireland in recent years. 

 

Alyson Barber's music is inspired by Irish legends and music and the poetry of Eoghan O Tuairisc, Emma O'Halloran's by the poetry of Paul Verlaine ('your soul is a chosen landscape').
 

Elaine Agnew has chosen the poetry of Michael Longley, imagining a bed as a vast, white snowscape. Deirdre McKay's quartet is visual in its concept, painting a picture of lonely cuttlefish, retreating from the world in a brown cloud of sepia.

 

Rhona Clarke's improvisations for solo alto flute open a vista for your imagination and Jane O'Leary's interlocking textures for voice and 3 high instruments treat sound in a sculptural way.  The concert is sponsored by IMRO.

 

For further information on the International Women and Music in Ireland Conference see:

http://music.nuim.ie/newsevents/womenandmusicinirelandconference

 
Friday April 16, 4 5.30 pm

Concorde: Open Rehearsal (part of National Music Day)
DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, Rathmines (opposite Swan Centre). 
All Welcome!

 

David James and Tine Verbeke will be rehearsing Alyson Barbers Bóithre Bána  and Elaine Agnews Snowhole, two pieces for soprano and cello.
http://www.lovelivemusic.ie/whats_on/event/concorde_open_rehearsal/