Songs of Travel

“…one of the freshest, most exciting, intelligent and intriguing musical developments in Northern Ireland in too long a time.”(Michael Quinn – Culture NI)Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble is the only professional musical ensemble in Northern Ireland to specialise in the performance of modern and contemporary repertoire. Its remit is to give a voice to local composers and to perform their music alongside luminaries from elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world. It aims to programme music that otherwise cannot be heard live locally, while serving as an outlet for the talent of highly specialist performers and acting as a meeting point for their innovation, ideas and enthusiasm.

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A Creative Europe Cooperation Project that aims to raise awareness and foster empathy for climate change and migration through music.

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Songs of Travel is a Creative Europe Cooperation Project that aims to raise awareness and foster empathy for climate change and migration through music. In collaboration with the Austrian game developers Causa Creations, Elaine Agnew composed the specifically curated soundtrack for Songs of Travel, an interactive graphic novel that explores various aspects of and collectively paints a vivid picture of the topic of migration through the personal stories of five individuals as they fled their troubled homelands of Syria, Vietnam, Italy, Turkey and Ukraine in search of new beginnings in Europe.Premiered at Music for Galway’s 2024 Cellissimo Festival with the original soundtrack performed live against a large-scale projection of the visual novel, Songs of Travel was then performed in Sweden (Fairplay Chamber Music), Norway (Valdres Sommersymfoni), the Netherlands (Piano Biënnale) and most recently featured as part of an exhibition Substanz at the Künstlerhaus Gallery in Vienna. Join us as we bring this fantastic project to Belfast, in collaboration with Polish music cooperative, Hashtag Ensemble.__________________________ PROGRAMMESongs of Travel (2024)*
 Elaine Agnew (1967)
 clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello,
 piano, percussion <blockquote>* Commissioned by Music for Galway, with funds from 
the Creative Europe Cooperation Project</blockquote> PERFORMERSViolin - Marta PiórkowskaCello - David McCannClarinet - Sarah WattsPiano - Daniel BrowellPercussion - Alex Petcu __________________________ TICKETSFreeDonations gratefully received.__________________________ OUR FUNDERSHard Rain SoloistEnsemble are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. We are part of the PRS Foundation Talent Development Network and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen's University Belfast.

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