Don't miss the opportunity to experience this unique collaboration between Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble and Maiden Voyage Dance.

Hard Rain's enthusiasm for collaborative projects with key artistic partners leads us this season to a dance event with Belfast's incredible Maiden Voyage Dance. MVD will offer interpretations of Steve Reich's mesmerising 'Double Sextet' and Greg Caffrey's solo work for vibraphone, 'Deluge, Fugue & Allegro'.

This is also an opportunity to hear the premiere of 'Attrition' by Amy Rooney, the first of three commissions this season from early-career composers, supported by the PRSf Talent Development Partnership. Elaine Agnew's 'Calligraphy', its origin in the writing of the Canadian author JE Weaver, navigates a wide range of gesture and emotion and, perhaps similarly, Fergus Johnston's solo piano work 'Éagaoineadh' deftly moves from its position of spacious beauty to a radical conclusion in the space of just 3 minutes. Audiences will also have the chance to revisit our brilliantly atmospheric 4th Peter Rosser Award first prize work by Pàdruig Morrison, 'Caoin Leth-Challtach'.

Join us for a pre-concert talk in the SARC Multimedia Room at 6.45 pm.

'Calligraphy' (2002), Elaine Agnew (1967), flute (alt fl), clarinet (bs cl), violin, violoncello & vibraphone

'Éagaoineadh' (1995), Fergus Johnston (1959), solo piano

'Caoin Leth-Challtach' (2019)***, Pàdruig Morrison (1996), flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano (1st Prize, 4th Peter Rosser Composition Award 2019)

'Deluge, Fugue & Allegro' (2004 - 5/ Vibraphone Version 2018) World Premiere, Greg Caffrey (1963), solo vibraphone

'Attrition' (2019)** World Premiere, Amy Rooney (1983), clarinet, violin, violoncello

'Double Sextet' (2007), Steve Reich (1936), flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano & vibraphone

** Commissioned by Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble with funds from PRSf Talent Development Partnership.

*** Written especially for Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

Tickets

General Admission: £10

Unwaged: £5

Students and staff of QUB's Music Department: Free admission