New works by Linda Buckley will be premiered in Wexford and London in the last week of June.

On 24 June at Clonard Church in Wexford, the Gateway Orchestra will give the first performance of Osmosis, a work Linda Buckley described in an interview for CMC as ‘quite loud and bombastic and in your face with lots of metallic percussion’. The 12-minute-long work was commissioned by and developed in collaboration with the four-year-old orchestra, the only symphony-sized ensemble in Ireland that caters for adult beginners, and will be conducted by Fergus Sheil. It will be heard alongside works by Schubert, Mozart and Johann Strauss II.

Three days later, on June 27, The Warehouse in the heart of London's South Bank is the venue for Buckley's Volt, a work completed in 2006 for violin and piano, will be heard for the first time in a concert of new Irish music, performed by Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea.

See Calendar for details.

Posted: 22 June 2007