West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival: Rising Stars Concert with Amy Gillen & Frasier Hickland

The WWCMF featured May 2023 Festival Rising Stars are Irish flautist Amy Gillen and pianist Frasier Hickland. Winner of the Sir James Galway Rising Star Award and the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year, Amy has performed as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, has made her debut performance at London’s Wigmore Hall and was selected by the Royal College of Music to perform for Britain’s Prince Charles in 2021. Amy will be joined by the acclaimed young Irish pianist Fraiser Hickland, who has recently been featured on both BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’, and on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Classical Connections’.

Their programme showcases the great versatility of the flute and piano repertoire and will showcase the premiere of the winning work from the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition 2023 by Donnchadh MacAodha. This concert will also include an opportunity to hear more from composer Donnchadh MacAodha, in an interview with CMC Director, Evonne Ferguson.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm.

Programme

Takatsugu Muramatsu - Earth

Briccialdi - Fantasia on Verdi's Macbeth 

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite

Donnchadh MacAodha - Music for flute and a 2-handed pianist

Mendelssohn - Nocturne from Midsummer Night’s Dream 

Taffanel - Fantaisie on themes from 'Der Freischütz'

Tickets

Tickets available via West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival.