Solas Quartet in Dublin

Solas Quartet in Dublin

Sunday, 12 March 2023, 12.00pm

SOLAS QUARTET
Katherine Hunka
Marja Gaynor
Cian O Duill
Aoife nic Athlaoich

Rohan Harron - Psychotia [2020]
Purcell - Two Fantasias Z.737 and Z.738 [1680]
Frank Bridge - Phantasie Quartet in F minor [1905]
Jessie Montgomery - Strum [2012]
Dvořák - Quartet in A flat Op.105 [1895]

The Solas Quartet joins us for their second live tour with another wide-ranging programme culminating in Dvorak’s magnificent A flat quartet. Young Dublin-based violinist and composer Rohan Harron’s Psychotia opens the programme with unpredictable energy and drive. Henry Purcell would have been of a similar age in London in 1680 when he wrote his fifteen remarkable Fantasias. Frank Bridge’s Phantasie Quartet is one of many early 20th century British works which bear the ‘Fantasy’ tag and look back to the form of Purcell’s Fantasias. American composer Jessie Montgomery’s Strum ‘begins with fleeting nostalgia and transforms into ecstatic celebration, drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement’.

Supported by the Arts Council, RTE Lyric FM and Dublin City Council

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Published by nsqf on 5 January 2023

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