NCH After Beethoven Series: 'Resonances' programme curated by Garrett Sholdice

Kate Ellis, cello; Isabelle O’Connell, piano.

This special composer-led series sees leading Irish composers Ann Cleare, Anselm McDonnell, Garrett Sholdice, Ian Wilson and Jane O’Leary respond to Beethoven’s creative legacy. Each concert features a new commission by the composer presented in a concert of their own curation.

Composer's response:

Circling, tracing for cello and piano is concerned with various kinds of cycles, various kinds of repetition. The materials are fragmentary, husks. The music is, ultimately, static, forever engaged in the observance of a private ritual. Personal, tactile memories haunt these bars, too, perhaps: certain passages of Beethoven resonating up through the keys of my piano; playing slowly, out-of-time, holding each chord in my hand.

(Garrett Sholdice)

Kate Ellis is a versatile musician dedicated to the performance and exploration of all new music. She is cellist and Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s leading new music group, a member of Martin Hayes’ Common Ground Ensemble, Francesco Turrissi’s Taquin experiments, Yurodny, Ergodos Musicians and the electro-folk group Fovea Hex.

Since her New York debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2002, Dublin-born pianist Isabelle O’Connell has developed an international career that has taken her across four continents. Isabelle has a reputation for being a dynamic interpreter and energetic advocate of music by 20th and 21st century composers, regularly commissioning and premiering new works.

Programme

Naomi Pinnock – passing. vanishing for solo cello (2020) 
[commissioned by Garrett Sholdice with funds provided by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon]

Ludwig van Beethoven – ‘Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto’ from Sonata No. 5, Op. 102, No. 2 for cello and piano (1815)

Andrew Hamilton – O.A.I.R. for solo piano (2012)

Eva-Maria Houben – Nur ein klang (5) for cello and piano (2009)

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly – *New Work* for solo cello (2022)

Garrett Sholdice – Circling, tracing for cello and piano (2020)

Tickets

Tickets available via the National Concert Hall, booking here.