Name: QUADRAIN
Start: 2018-12-15T19:30:00Z
End: 2018-12-15T22:00:00Z
Location: Queen's University Belfast

QUADRAIN

“…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

Five years ago, at the time of writing, HRSE gave its first ever performance to a rapturous audience in Belfast’s newly opened MAC. That concert featured the music of the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu and we are delighted to mark the anniversary of this concert by again presenting the Japanese master’s sumptuous Quadrain II.
 We welcome the participation of our 2018/19 young artist, Cathryn Lynch, in this concert, again performing a work by Takemitsu along with our own percussionist Alex Petcu, and if you want to hear more of this brilliant young performer we would direct you toward her dedicated lunchtime recital with Alex on Thurs Dec13th at QUB Harty Room. 
Continuing the Japanese aesthetic we bring you in this concert virtuosic works by Moshizuki and Teruyuki that are beautiful as well as astonishing explorations of the instruments involved. Greg Caffrey’s These are the clouds was written as a compliment to that first concert five years ago and appears again here along with one of our talented Peter Rosser Award finalists, Stephen Coyle’s gentle and quirky Taking [up][in][off][away]. Our Featured Composer Jane O’Leary opens our concert spectacularly with a work for the full ensemble, her beautifully evocative Sunshowers. 
 
Sunshowers (2007)                                                                     Jane O’Leary (1946)
al fl, cl, vln vcl pno & perc                                                                                 
 
Intermezzi I  (1998)                                                                       Misato Mochizuki (1969)
fl & pno                                                                                                                 
 
These are the Clouds* (2013)                                                        Greg Caffrey (1963)
fl, cl, vln & vcl  & pno                                                                               
 
Ecologue (1970)                                                                        Teruyuki Noda (1940)
fl & perc                                                                                                           
 
 Interval
 
Taking [up][in][off][away]* (2018)                                        Stephen Coyle (1991)
Finalist 3rdPeter Rosser Composition Award
fl, cl, vln & vcl  & pno                                                                                      
                                                                                                       
Cross Hatch (1982)                                                                            Toru Takemitsu (1930)
marimba & vibraphone                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 
Quark Intermezi III (2010)                                               Misato Mochizuki (1969)
solo perc                                                                                                         
 
Quadrain II (1977)                                                                  Toru Takemitsu (1930)
cl, vln & vcl  & pno

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