Name: New Horizons
Start: 2022-05-20T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Queen's University Belfast

New Horizons

“…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 propelling two of our promising local compositional talents into the spotlight with major commissions, funded through ACNI

Queen's University Belfast

This exciting project initiated by New Horizons Music propels two of our promising local compositional talents into the spotlight with major commissions (offered by New Horizons Music and funded through ACNI Lottery Project Funding). Amy Rooney and Eduard Zatriqi are no strangers to Hard Rain, both having featured several times in previous programmes; Amy, with several works including her 2019 work, Attrition, commissioned for the ensemble with funds from the PRSf Talent Development Partnership, and Eduard with his 2016 work, War Games, which was awarded First Prize in the 1st Peter Rosser Composition Award. It subsequently went on to receive a live HRSE broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Completing the programme we present the more established voices of our own Ian Wilson and British composer Rebecca Saunders. Wilson’s work, commissioned by HRSE in 2018 is sparse, austere and unconventional in its use of the ensemble forces, while the Saunders trio, an early work written when she was still a student with Wolfgang Rhim, seems to play with colours and light, as far as that may be expressed in music.PROGRAMMEFLOW STATE*** (2022 WORLD PREMIERE) - Amy Rooney (1983) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoTHE EMPTINESS OF THE EVER EXPANDING UNIVERSE CANNOT COMPARE TO THE VOID WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE* (2018) - Ian Wilson (1964) alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoTHE UNDER-SIDE OF GREEN (1994) - Rebecca Saunders (1967) clarinet, violin &amp; pianoPIERROT&#x27;S SPLENDIFEROUS SYMPHONIC DANCES*** (2022 WORLD PREMIERE) - Eduard Zatriqi (1987) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; piano*Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI *** Commissioned by New Horizons Music with funds from ACNI Lottery Project FundingTICKETS£10 / £5 CONCESSIONDonations gratefully received.Our Box Office will close at 6.30 pm on Friday 20th May so please book your tickets as soon as possible.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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