Musicahora Festival presents Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, performing works by John Buckley, Greg Caffrey & Jane O'Leary

HARD RAIN SOLOISTENSEMBLE: Aisling Agnew, flute; Daniel Browell, piano.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble (HRSE) is a contemporary music group from Belfast devoted to the performance of modern and contemporary music. It was founded by Greg Caffrey in 2013, who remains the Artistic Director and its remit is to give a voice to local composers and to perform their music in the context of works by leading exponents of contemporary music from elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world. It aims to programme music that otherwise cannot be heard live locally, while serving as an outlet for the talent of highly specialist performers and acting as a meeting point for their innovation, ideas and enthusiasm. HRSE are ensemble in residence at Queen's University Belfast and are based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre QUB, a state of the art facility opened by Karlheinze Stockhausen in 2004

This performance has resulted from Musicahora's and HRSE's participation in NMDX, CMC’s annual international networking programme in partnership with the New Music Dublin festival and Culture Ireland. NMDX is attended by representatives of some of the most significant national and international contemporary music festivals, concert series, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters.

Programme

Greg Caffrey - Tout
Claude Debussy - Syrinx
Jane O’Leary - feather headed, frail, summoning (after Syrinx)
Esteban Correa - Solo, pronunciaré el nombre, Va alada
John Buckley - Solo Fantasias, for contralto flute
Jonathan Harvey - Run Before Lightning

Tickets

Entry is free for all concerts in the Muiscahora Festival. Please visit https://www.musicahora.cl/ for more information.