A new work by Ian Wilson receives its premiere in Carnegie Hall, New York in October.

The world premiere on 14 October Cassini Void, a 20-minute work for clarinet and 10 instruments, will be the Belfast-born composer’s second appearance in New York’s Carnegie Hall this year.

Commissioned with funds from the Arts Council by Dubliner Carol McGonnell, who will perform the work with the New York-based Argento ensemble, the work, says Ian Wilson, ‘takes its inspiration from the eponymous gap between Saturn’s rings’ and employs ‘a somewhat theatrical, spatial approach’ to the positioning of the clarinet and duo and trio combinations of other instruments to produce a work that ‘should prove to be both an entertaining and challenging work’.

The work is part of a programme called New Music, New Ireland, New York: A Showcase of Contemporary Irish Composers that also features music by Linda Buckley, Donnacha Dennehy and Jennifer Walshe.

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Posted: 29 August 2007