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A work by composer Ian Wilson is performed in Paris in December. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, Wilson's work for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin and cello, based on a text by Gabriel García Márquez, is to be heard for the first time in France in a concert at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris on Tuesday 9 December. This will be its third performance, following Irish and UK premieres in Dublin in October 2007, and at the Brighton Festival in May this year.Pianist Finghin Collins, clarinettist Carol McGonnell and singer-cum-narrator Gavin Friday all reprise their original roles in Paris, and will be joined by Catherine Leonard on violin and Richard Harwood on cello. Ian Wilson has also received an Arts Council Projects New Work award to create a new piece with violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan and director Tom Creed. Una Santa Oscura will be a multimedia work inspired by aspects of the life of the 12th-century nun, mystic and composer, Hildegard of Bingen, revered as 'the Sybil of the Rhine'. Wilson describes the work as 'like an opera with no singers' in which the violin will take the central role. The 45-minute work will include live violin performed against an electronic backdrop that Wilson will create in a collaboration with Jürgen Simpson. The finished work will include costume, stage design and live video projection. For details, see our calendar. Posted: 17 November 2008
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