Tom Cullivan will give the world premiere of his Seventh Piano Sonata at a concert of his work in Galway on 30 June.

The concert, which takes place in the Aula Maxima of the National University of Ireland, Galway, will also include the world premiere of Cullivan’s Second Sonata for Bassoon and Piano in which the soloist will be its dedicatee, Galway performer and conductor Michael Dooley, accompanied by Moscow-born pianist Elena Gekker.

In addition, the concert will feature the Galway premiere of Cullivan’s Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in which the soloist will be Franco-Irish violinist Sebastien Petiet who gave the work its European continental premiere in Annecy in 1996. He will be accompanied by pianist Pádhraic Ó Cuinneagáin who will also accompany baritone Peter McBrien in a selection of Cullivan’s song settings of Irish poems, notably Valparaiso by Mgr Pádraig de Brún, a former President of the University.

Cullivan will again perform his Fifth Piano Sonata, which he premiered at a concert in Theatre des Varieties, Monaco, in March 2003. He will also play a number of his shorter piano pieces including the premiere of his Rhapsody on a Theme by Ryabinin.

The performance commences at 8.00 p.m. All seats are 15.