Kirkoskammer ж The Cello ж with Yseult Cooper Stockdale

Kirkoskammer ж The Cello ж with Yseult Cooper Stockdale

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 7.00pm

Kirkos Ensemble's chamber music series comes to a close for 2017 with Kirkoskammer ж The Cello ж with Yseult Cooper Stockdale, taking place at the Bewley's Café Theatre, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, on Wednesday November 22nd at 7pm.

Yseult’s programme demonstrates the sheer diversity of ground broken by composers writing for cello in recent decades, pushing at the instrument’s sonic horizons while harnessing its expressive melodic power.

Lachenmann’s Pression eschews traditional techniques to conjure a universe of viscerally colourful sounds from bow, string and wood; Saariaho’s Sept Papillons is a transportive array of flickering harmonies that truly evoke the title; and Michael Gordon’s Industry gradually distorts driving postminimalism through an electronic fuzz box.
In contrast to these sonic explorations are Henze’s Serenade and Sculthorpe’s Requiem, exploiting the cello’s richly melodic voice and nodding both to modernism and tradition.

Completed by the world premiere of a new commission from Irish composer Stephen O’Brien, Kirkoskammer ж The Cello is a worthy closing concert for our series and a perfect showcase for Yseult’s formidable musicianship.

We’ll be serving complimentary wine (kindly provided by the Royal Irish Academy of Music) from 7pm, and music begins at 7.30pm.

PROGRAMME

Hans Werner Henze - Serenade
Helmut Lachenmann - Pression
Stephen O'Brien - New Commission
Peter Sculthorpe - Requiem (Mvt. 1)
Kaija Saariaho - Sept Papillons
Michael Gordon - Industry

ABOUT THE PERFORMER

A passionate supporter of new music, Yseult Cooper Stockdale has, with Kirkos, given over 50 premieres including several solo cello commissions. She works extensively with the RTÉ NSO and Concert Orchestra, has performed with Camerata Ireland and Crash Ensemble, and this month has her first Musici Ireland concert. Yseult also has an interest in period performance and is principal cellist of Fishamble Sinfonia.

Yseult has a 1st Class Honours MA from Cork School of Music and BA from RIAM. In 2015/16 she studied with Erasmus scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. A finalist at the Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2015, Yseult received the John Vallery Memorial Prize for highest placed string player, and was awarded the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship.

In 2017 Yseult performed to critical acclaim at the NCH's Chamber Music Gathering, and was selected a Britten-Pears Young Artist, performing at the Southbank Centre under Marin Alsop. She will be returning to London in the new year as a member of Southbank Sinfonia for their 2018 season, and in February performs in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at the National Opera House, Wexford.

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Published by bohalpin on 25 October 2017

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