Ian Wilson's fourth piano trio, Negro negro elegia, receives its world premiere in Vienna on 10 October.

The work is inspired by Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, a series of stark black and white paintings inspired by the injustice of the Spanish civil war. It will be performed by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt at Vienna's Radiokulturhaus.

This performance is followed on 17 October with the premiere of Licht/ung for large orchestra at the Venice Biennale, which commissioned the work. It will be performed by the Orchestra dell' Arena di Verona, conducted by Johannes Debus.

Licht/ung will be Wilson's fifth premiere outside Ireland this year. The first was Games, a 30-minute song cycle on texts by Vasko Popa commissioned and performed by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams at St David's Hall, Cardiff on 4 February. The second was In Plato's Cave, a wind quintet premiered by Harlequin in London's Purcell Room on 4 July.

On 1 August, Peter Sheppard Skaerved gave the first performance of Cartography, an eight-minute piece for solo violin, at the Tamayo Gallery in Mexico City.

Ian Wilson is artistic director of the Sligo New Music Festival and programme director of the Con Brio Sligo music series.