Ian Wilson has a number of world and Irish premières coming up in the next few months.

Irish flautist Bill Dowdall premières Lios na Gaoithe for solo flute with glissando head joint at the University of Waikato in New Zealand on July 24, before playing it in a succession of venues in New Zealand and Australia. The Irish première will take place in Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane, on 6 December.

Íarla Ó Lionáird and the National Chamber Choir of Ireland under British conductor and composer James Wood premiere The Beloved and Her Lover in Cashel Church of Ireland on 4 Septembe, and ten days later New Dublin Voices give the Irish premiere of Bealach Conglais in the John Field Room, a setting of Deirdre Brennan's poem which they recently premiered in Germany.

A short work for two tenor saxophones, Beda beda beda beda bedop, will receive its first performances in Louisiana, USA by Michael Straus and Griffin Campbell between 1 and 5 November, and Come to me here, an RTÉ Lyric fm commission for soprano, mezzo-soprano and piano, will receive its first performances by Celine Byrne, Tara Erraught and Dearbhla Collins during a Music Network tour of Ireland between 5 and 12 November. The song is a setting of Sappho in translation by A.S. Kline.

A new 13-minute work for viola solo, Mürrische Erde, will receive its world premiere in St John's Smith Square, London, on 2 December by the brilliant young Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar, for whom the piece was written.

And finally, a new 15-minute work for alto saxophone and large ensemble will be premiered at Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw on 31 January 2010 by Ties Mellema and the Insomnio Ensemble, followed by two further performances the following month in Utrecht and 's-Hertogenbosch.

Posted: 24 June 2009