WWCMF Rising Stars concert featuring world premiere of "A New Species" by Michael Cummins, winner of the WWCMF 2022 Composition Competition
St Mary's Church, Blessington
Cathal Killeen, clarinet; Órán Halligan, piano.
The WWCMF 2022 Rising Stars are clarinettist Cathal Killeen and pianist Órán Halligan.
Cathal began his own clarinet journey as a scholarship student of the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, before heading across the water to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has been invited to play with all of the major Scottish orchestras as well as with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Órán also studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and like Cathal, has recently graduated from postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Órán is a previous winner of the Irish Freemason’s Young Musician of the Year Award and he has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Dublin Concert Band and Poulenc’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, both at the National Concert Hall.
The concert will feature a CMC Composer's Voice event with composer Michael Cummins, winner of the WWCMF 2022 Composition Competition in conversation with CMC's Projects, Programmes and Events Manager Linda O'Shea Farren.
Programme
Schumann - Fantasiestücke Op. 73
James Macmillan - From Galloway
Ivette Herryman-Rodriguez - Black Montuno
Barber Canzone- (arr. for Clarinet and piano)
Michael Cummins - A New Species
Debussy - Première Rhapsodie
Béla Kovács - Sholem Alekhem, Rov Feidman!
Tickets
Tickets available via West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival on Eventbrite.