Kevin O'Connell Portrait @ New Music Dublin 2020
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble celebrates one of Ireland’s most distinguished composers this year in a special portrait concert of the music of Kevin O’Connell. This collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where O’Connell is Head of Composition, is in celebration of the composer’s 60th birthday.
The concert presents a cross-section of O’Connell’s chamber music written since 2005.
Little Overture (2013)
flute, clarinet, violoncello & piano
Piano Trio no. 2 (2015)
violin, violoncello & piano
Motus (2005)
solo bass clarinet.
Aves de Paso (2016)
soprano, clarinet (bs. cl) & piano
Céimeanna (2007)
solo piano
Ictus (2005)
solo flute (alt. fl)
A Battuta (2017)*
flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano
Commissioned by HRSE with funds from ACNI Small Grants.
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Joanne Quigley-McParland - violin
Dave McCann - cello
Aisling Agnew - Flutes
Sarah Watts - Clarinets
Daniel Browell - Piano
Sylvia O’Brien - Soprano