A new work by David Flynn paying tribute to Seán Ó Riada is to receive its first public performance at the recently re-opened Cork School of Music on 31 August.

Composed for two Irish fiddles, piano accordion, two Irish flutes (doubling tin whistles), Irish harp and SSA vocals, Taibhreamh Ó Riada, says David Flynn, aims to realise Ó Riada’s ‘vision of a specifically Irish form of chamber music by creating a new piece using traditional Irish instruments, voices and techniques alongside classical techniques such as harmony, counterpoint and a form of canon I call a polymetric cycle which, in this case, is the cyclic repetition of a Double Jig rhythm (6/8) against a Slip Jig rhythm (9/8)’.

Commissioned by RTÉ lyric fm for the 2007 EBU Folk Music Festival, the work will be performed by the six-strong all-female group Líadan, for whom it was written.

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Posted: 29 August 2007