Ergodos Festival MMX

This year, the Ergodos Festival is all about optimism. The industry of men and women – their ability to make something – is an essentially positive force.

 
‘One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.’ These words are millennia old, but they thread this festival, framing the first concert and permeating the second. 

Another Generation, at 8pm on the 2nd of April, connects two distant ages, Baroque and modern. Performed by the Ergodos Orchestra, the programme finds roots in tradition, yet embraces a vision of new possibility. Solos and ensemble pieces by John Cage, Alexander Harker, Simon O’Connor, Jonathan Nangle and Garrett Sholdice resonate with J. S. Bach’s elegiac chorale prelude, Ich ruf zu dir, in four new arrangements.

 
At 8pm on the 3rd of April the premiere performance of The Sun Also Rises takes place, a work of film and music whose characters find strength in nostalgia, love and the eternity of nature, despite their desolation. The Ergodos Orchestra is joined by Ergodos Voices to perform the 70-minute score by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. Archival Super-8 footage augments specially commissioned films by David Tynan.
 

 

Tickets (€15/€10 per concert) are available from the Project Arts Centre box office (http://projectartscentre.ie, +353 (0)1 881 9613). 

 

Curated by Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, the festival will feature some of the most exciting and radically eclectic instrumentalists and singers working in Ireland and Europe today. The Ergodos Orchestra will feature pianist Izumi Kimura, violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan, violist Cora Venus Lunny, cellist Kate Ellis and clarinetist Jonathan Sage. Ergodos Voices, returning to Dublin following their critically-acclaimed debut at the National Concert Hall in December, will feature alto Nora Ryan, mezzo-soprano Michelle O'Rourke and soprano Peyee Chen.

Full programme details are below.

 

ERGODOS FESTIVAL MMX

Friday, 2 April 2010. 8pm
Another Generation
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Tickets €15/10
 

Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ich Ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ
John Cage – Five
Simon O’Connor – Blue
Jonathan Nangle – My Heart Stopped a Thousand Beats
Garrett Sholdice – Chorales for James Tenney
Alexander Harker – Fluence*
 

Ergodos Orchestra
Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)
Cora Venus Lunny (viola)
Kate Ellis (cello)
Jonathan Sage (clarinet)
Izumi Kimura (piano)
Musical Director Garrett Sholdice
* Commissioned with funds from the Arts Council / An Chomairle Ealaíon
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Saturday, 3 April 2010. 8pm
The Sun Also Rises
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Tickets €15/10
A work for film and music by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and David Tynan. Two individuals overcome their desolation through memory, love and the eternity of nature.
 

Ergodos Orchestra
Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)
Kate Ellis (cello)
Paul G. Smyth (piano)
 

Ergodos Voices
Peyee Chen (soprano)
Michelle O’Rourke (mezzo-soprano)
Robin Bier (alto)
 

Musical Director Garrett Sholdice
Concept Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Screenplay Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and David Tynan
Director David Tynan
Cinematographer Stevie Russell