SoundSet Strings Premiere Irish Works

SoundSet Strings Premiere Irish Works

SoundSet, an ensemble of choir and strings founded in 2010 by composers Laura Kilty and Emma O’Halloran to perform everything from contemporary composition to early music, will premiere two new Irish works for strings, written by O’Halloran and Enda Bates respectively, in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, on 28 October

SoundSet, an ensemble of choir and strings founded in 2010 by composers Laura Kilty and Emma O’Halloran to perform everything from contemporary composition to early music, will premiere two new Irish works for strings, written by O’Halloran and Enda Bates respectively, in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, on 28 October.

In addition to these new works, which are titled As Dusk Descends (O’Halloran) and From the Cusp of Sleep (Bates), SoundSet Strings will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Star and Kevin Volans’ White Man Sleeps. The concert, named Transfigured Night after the English translation of the Schoenberg piece, has been fully funded through the ensemble’s FundIt.ie campaign. FundIt.ie is an Irish website through which individuals or groups can attract funding from friends, fans and followers.

SoundSet have two further concerts scheduled. The first will take place on 23 November in the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall, and is a collaboration with the Irish Composers’ Collective. The second is entitled Winter Illuminations, and will feature two premieres of music by Irish composers. Further details will be announced closer to the time, and can be found on the ensemble’s Facebook page, or by e-mailing the ensemble at soundsetensemble [at] gmail.com.

Published on 11 October 2011

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