Peaceline Perspectives

Join us in Derry for the last stop on our Peaceline Perspectives tour, with a programme that features highly evocative pieces from the North of Ireland. The music is interwoven with voices and soundscapes inspired around Belfast’s Peaceline, which separates the nationalist and loyalist communities. This performance showcases the work of multiple composers whose musical voices are shaped by their shared Northern Irish heritage.

Greg Caffrey’s Tout (a slang term meaning informer) reflects on the horror, danger and mistrust prevalent during Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Elaine Agnew’s I Want to tell you consists of instrumental duos accompanying a voice track of victims, survivors and displaced families affected by conflict, while Úna Monaghan uses the sounds of helicopters, drone noises and animal hunting whistles to depict the nature of people being quite literally Hunted.

There are moments of tranquility too. Áine Mallon’s Cállan and Ryan Molloy’s Gortnagarn offer meditative reflections on the beauty of our shared landscape, and its meaning in our lives.

Eduard Zatriqi’s War Games was composed as a musical commentary on the conflicts evident around the world in early 2016. Reading news articles concerning the rise of populism, nationalism, and violence perpetrated in the name of religion, he was struck by humanity's apparent inability or unwillingness to learn from past errors. Ten years on from that, it seems we are very much in the same situation, if not worse, and so this impassioned work brings the programme to a dramatic conclusion.

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PROGRAMME

Eat Sleep Empire (2002) Ian Wilson (1964) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano

Cállan (2021) Áine Mallon (1994) violoncello, piano

Tout (2022) Greg Caffrey (1963) flute, piano

Gortnagarn ll (2016) Ryan Molloy (1983) alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano

Hunted (2025) Úna Monaghan (1983) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, whistles, fixed media

I want to tell you (2013) Elaine Agnew (1967) violin, violoncello, fixed media

War Games (2016) Eduard Zatriqi (1987) flute (piccolo), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello, piano

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TICKETS

£10 / Concession £8 (Free for Ulster University students)

Donations gratefully received.

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OUR FUNDERS

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen's University Belfast.