Kilkenny Arts Festival: Finghin Collins & Máire Carroll
St. John’s Priory
Finghin Collins and Máire Carroll – two of Ireland’s most exciting pianists – join forces to perform this exhilarating programme of new music by contemporary composers from Ireland.
Commissioned by the New Ross Piano Festival over a number of years, The Ros Tapestry Suite is inspired by the tapestries of the same name that tell the story of the Norman invasion of Ireland. To mark the completion of these tapestries (now on display in Kilkenny Castle), Finghin Collins and Máire Carroll present the first performance of the entire Ros Tapestry Suite, an exhilarating journey through Ireland’s ancient past, in a thrilling mix of modern styles.
Programme
John Kinsella - The Celts, in an Island Fastness
Elaine Agnew - The Abduction of Dervorgilla
Gerald Barry - Arrogant Trespass: The Normans Landing at Bannow Strand (‘Midday’)
Sebastian Adams - The Siege of Wexford (‘2014.4’)
Gerry Murphy - Battles in the Kingdom of Ossory
Eric Sweeney - Evening: The Lighthouse at Hook Head
Linda Buckley - William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry
Sam Perkin - The Marriage of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare (‘Nesting Doll’)
Deirdre Gribbin - Ex Voto Tintern Abbey: William Marshal’s Stormy Crossing to Ireland (‘Anfa Virga’)
Andrew Hamilton - Hunt in the Forest of Ros
Philip Martin - Gothic Glory: The Building of the Parish Church of St Mary’s
Gráinne Mulvey - The Thriving Port of Ros
Raymond Deane - The Walling of the Town of Ros: Sixteen Guilds Protect Their Town
Marian Ingoldsby - Exchange: The Irish and Normans Mingle at the Fair
Garrett Sholdice - The Sheaf of Corn: the Distaff Descent (‘Sheaf’)
Tickets
€25/23. Booking via Kilkenny Arts Festival.