The Irish Chamber Orchestra has recently returned from a successful tour of the Far East. Supported by the Cultural Relations Committee of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and by SES Shannon Engine Support and KLM, the orchestra under their director Mariana Sirbu performed Raymond Deane's ...a fire was in my head (2002), an ICO commission, in seven locations in South Korea and China during March. The tour programmes also included works by T. C. Kelly, Shostakovich, Arvo Pärt, Rossini and Locatelli.