Our last collaboration with the wonderful Maiden Voyage Dance (MVD) was a great success with ensemble and dancers giving a pulsating performance of Reich’s Double Sextet to a full house at the Sonic Lab. We return to that very venue for our next collaboration with MVD, this time raising the challenge stakes in tackling Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No 1. This is not a piece of music that immediately shouts ‘dance’ at you, but in the hands of MVD we will be in for a new visual exploration of this great work.

Alongside the Schoenberg masterpiece we have a reprise of Jane O'Leary's Winter Reflections, which HRSE featured in its 2019 season. Two previously commissioned works appear here in this programme too: Piers Hellawell's Ground Truthing and John Buckley's Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder, from our 2017/18 and 2018/19 Seasons respectively. Finally, if you missed the final of our 5th Peter Rosser Composition Awards, we have another chance to hear the winning work in this concert; Dark Measures by Anita Mawhinney.

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PROGRAMME

GROUND TRUTHING* (2018) Piers Hellawell (1956) flute (picc. alto fl. mel.), bass clarinet (Bb cl), violin, violoncello & piano

WINTER REFLECTIONS (2010) Jane O’Leary (1946) alto flute, Bb clarinet & violin

DARK MEASURES (2020) (Winner of the 5th Peter Rosser Composition Award) Anita Mawhinney (1974) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

THREE MOBILES AFTER ALEXANDER CALDER* (2018) John Buckley (1951) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

SHORT INTERVAL

CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO 1 OP 9 (1906) Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951) Arr. A Webern (1922 – 3) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

*Commissioned with funding from ACNI

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OUR FUNDERS

Hard 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's University Belfast.