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 Kirkos is very happy to announce the next instalment of our Kirkoskammer chamber music series, taking place on Thursday 16th February at Bewley’s Café Theatre, Powerscourt Centre, South William Street, Dublin. As with every concert in this series, there will be complimentary wine for guests from 7pm, and music from 7.30pm.

February’s edition will showcase the formidable talents of Kirkos flautist Miriam Kaczor. True to our mission, Miriam will be taking the audience on a journey through solo masterworks that explore the incredible expressive and coloristic range of the flute.

Setting an unlikely tone for our exploration of the 20th and 21st centuries, we’ll briefly step back to the Baroque with No. 6 of Telemann’s Fantasias, his 12-part investigation into the possibilities and nuances of the transverse flute through all the different tonalities. This exploratory approach unexpectedly resonates two centuries later in the rest of our programme. Density 25.1 by Edgard Varèse demonstrates the visionary French composer’s jarring contrast of registral extremes and ambition to sculpt with blocks of sound, far ahead of his time in 1936. Following is the acrobatic fury and inventive colour of Sequenza No. 1, from Luciano Berio’s radically modernist and influential series of solos for various instruments.

In addition to these seminal works, at the heart of Miriam’s programme is some of the most exciting flute music written by contemporary Irish composers. 2015.3 by Kirkos’ own Sebastian Adams is a hypnotic and breathless flurry, while John Buckley’s Fantasia draws upon the hauntingly mellow timbres of the alto flute. We will also hear fantastic works by Gráinne Mulvey and Philip Hammond. 

Miriam Kaczor completed her BA in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with prof. William Dowdall, who was the first to spark her interest in contemporary music. Whilst at RIAM, Miriam was a joint winner of the 2014 Maura Dowdall Senior Solo Competition, and in 2015 she won the Irish Freemasons’ Young Musician of the Year Competition. She was selected for the Britten-Pears Baroque Ensemble as well as the Britten-Pears Orchestra last year, with upcoming chamber music projects in Dublin, Kilalloe and New York. As a soloist, she has performed with the RTÉ Concert & National Symphony Orchestras, the Dublin Orchestral Players, Esker Festival Orchestra. She has been a member of the Kirkos Ensemble since 2012, and has performed with the Vanbrugh Quartet and various other chamber groups across Ireland, UK and China.

Miriam is supported by Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme, funded by The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. She is also grateful for the support of the RIAM, the South Dublin County Council and the Clandeboye Music Festival Flax Trust bursary.