New vocal ensemble Ergodos Voices makes its debut on 5 December.

Ergodos Voices is a brazen new, all-amplified, all-female vocal quartet. The group (Peyee Chen and Marja Liisa Kay (sopranos), Michelle O'Rourke (mezzo soprano) and Robin Bier (alto) has been working for months on five new works by Irish composers, nearly all commissioned by Ergodos. It's a programme that covers the broad reach of human experience, often passionate, sometimes calm, sometimes rough, sometimes nostalgic, but always beautiful.

Linda Buckley sets an Icelandic paean to the earth; Judith Ring finds beauty in the detail of a woman's voice; Garrett Sholdice looks for the delicate stillness of the medieval masters and Seán Clancy exposes the theatre of our voyeurist and celebrity obsessed culture. Benedict Schlepper-Connolly binds these works with interludes from his work, The Sun Also Rises, a piece which is entirely about optimism, and which features projections of 8mm film.

Ergodos is a Dublin-based music company run by composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. This event is part-funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

National Concert Hall, Dublin, 5 December 2009, 8:30pm. Tickets €12/€9.
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Posted: 15 November 2009