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For Immediate Release
Jane O'Leary's Music at the National Gallery of Ireland
3 October 2006
The National Gallery of Ireland is the venue on Thursday October 12 at 6:30 p.m. for a celebration concert featuring the music of composer Jane O'Leary. Marking her 60th birthday, the concert brings together some remarkable musicians from Ireland and abroad to perform a range of music dating from the early '90's to recent works of the 21st century, including the premiere of a new quartet written for Concorde.
Performers include Garth Knox, Paris-based violist who premiered Stockhausen's famous helicopter quartet when he was a member of the Arditti Quartet, the celebrated RTE Vanbrugh Quartet, Ireland's premiere guitarist John Feeley, and the contemporary ensemble Concorde, who celebrate 30 years of creating and communicating new music in over a dozen countries internationally.
The concert is promoted by the National Gallery of Ireland in association with the Contemporary Music Centre and Concorde and is open to the public free of charge.
Jane O'Leary is a founding member of Aosdana and completed a PhD in composition at Princeton University. She is based in Galway where she is Chairperson of Music for Galway, now promoting their 26th international concert season. She is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre (www.cmc.ie/composers/).
Also this month, Jane will be featured as composer of the week on Dutch radio station VARA where five programmes of her music, dating from the early 1970's to the present day, will be broadcast October 22-26 and available for later listening on www.radio4.vara.nl.
On Sunday October 29 Lyric fm's contemporary music programme NOVA will be dedicated to Jane's music and the history and performances of Concorde.
Jane's next premiere is an RTE lyric fm commission which takes place in Paris on 8 November. Based on Samuel Beckett's text 'something there', a choral work of the same name will be performed by the Irish Chamber Choir of Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (www.centreculturelirlandais.com).