A recital from siblings Dearbhla and Finghin Collins, including the premiere of Sean Doherty’s new work, ‘Sonatina for two pianos’. The piece is a response to Joan Trimble’s work of the same title from 1938 (which also features in the concert programme) and is in three movements: Prelude and Fugue, Variations and Impromptu.

The programme will also include two pillars of the piano duet repertoire with the Dublin siblings performing at one piano – Schubert’s hauntingly beautiful Fantasie in F minor and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, famously composed for the children of the composer’s friends.

Programme:

At two pianos:

Sean Doherty: “Sonatina” (2022)
Joan Trimble: Sonatina (1940)
Arthur Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba (1938)

At one piano:

Schubert: Fantasie in F minor D. 940
Ravel: “Ma mere l’Oye”

Dearbhla Collins Piano
Finghin Collins Piano