Luminosa Music was founded in 2018 by Lucy Hayward O’Leary, Nicola Geddes and Adrian Mantu, in order to form, promote, manage and develop Galway’s first professional string orchestra. This concert explores music written despite considerable adversity. Witness the unfolding and resilience of human nature, bringing the colour and triumph of the human spirit to life with works by Shostakovich, Pavel Haas, Herbert Howells, George Walker and Jane O’Leary.

Programme:

Jane O’Leary: Strings in the Air, Songs in the Stones
Herbert Howells: Elegy for Viola, string quartet and string orchestra
George Walker: Lyric for strings
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op.110a
Pavel Haas: Study for Strings

Sinead Hayes, Principal guest conductor
Bogdan Sofei, Concertmaster
Andreea Banciu, Viola soloist and principal viola