Name: Inner
Start: 2023-03-08T19:30:00Z
End: 2023-03-08
Location: Queen's University Belfast

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“…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.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

A concert in celebration of International Women’s Day.

Queen's University Belfast

We bring these six works together not only in celebration of International Women’s Day, but in reflection of the fact that the work being created inside and outside Ireland today by women is some of the most explorative and diverse in new music. The composers included also happen to offer us a representation of contemporary music as it is developing in Ireland and the United States.Americans Agócs and Shatin both attended Juilliard and both studied with Milton Babbitt, but there the similarity ends. From different generations, each has their own voice. Without wanting to apply reductive terms in categorising the composers it will be obvious to the listener where each is coming from. It is also a treat to present a major work here by Thea Musgrave, a ‘transatlantic’ composer born and bred in Scotland but living in the U.S. since 1972 and having the distinction of studying with both Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland. From our own side of the pond we open our concert with perhaps Amy Rooney’s most expansive composition to date, commissioned last season for our ensemble by New Horizons Music. In contrast to the gently shifting textures in Amy’s music we present works by two of Ireland’s avant-gardists, Ann Cleare and Gráinne Mulvey, both of whom delight in the exploration of the extremities of sound. __________________________PROGRAMMEFLOW STATE* (2022) Amy Rooney (1983) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoINNER (2009) Ann Cleare (1983) amplified violoncello &amp; pianoINTERSTICES (2011) Irish Premiere Gráinne Mulvey (1966) flute, clarinet, horn in F, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoWERTHER (1984) Irish Premiere Judith Shatin (1949) flute (picc.), clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoROGUE EMOJI (2019) Irish Premiere Kati Agócs (1984) flute (picc. afl.), clarinet (Eb, bcl.), violin &amp; violoncelloCHAMBER CONCERTO Nᵒ2 (1966) Thea Musgrave (1928) flute (picc. afl.), clarinet (bcl.), violin (vla.), violoncello &amp; piano*Commissioned for HRSE by New Horizons Music with funds from ACNI.__________________________TICKETS£10 / £5 CONCESSION (FREE FOR QUB STAFF &amp; STUDENTS)Donations gratefully received.__________________________OUR FUNDERSHard Rain SoloistEnsemble is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner supported by PPL. We are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen&#x27;s University Belfast.

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