Six new works for solo violin are to receive their first public performances on Thursday 29 May in Dublin.

The premieres will feature in a concert presented by the Young Composers Collective titled Wood, Hair and Gut and will be performed by violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan and guitarist David Flynn in The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin at 8pm.

Promising "fresh and diverse approaches" to the violin, the concert includes David Flynn's Tar Eís an Caoineadh ('After the Keening'), which the composer describes as a 'companion piece' to his Third String Quartet and is 'like a celebration at the wake and so the music develops a light-hearted character based on various traditional Irish dance rhythms'. Each of its four sections is dedicated to influential fiddlers James Byrne, Con Cassidy, Danny Meehan and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

Flynn will also accompany Petcu-Colan in Scott McLaughlin's Intra, which 'aims to draw the violin sound inside the alien world of the prepared guitar' and David Coonan's 're-composing' of a 20th-Century icon in Three Stravinsky Transcriptions.

Other featured works include Louise Harte's Swimming Out of Depth, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly's Ekstase I and darkly he rose, and then I slept by Garret Sholdice.

For further details see our calendar or visit www.ycc.ie.

Posted: 27 May 2008