Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble: Interior Scenes
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Image: Creator/Designer - Paula Caffrey, Photographer - Neil Harrison
Interior Scenes is a meaningful programme, showcasing highly accomplished works for ensemble, while exploring current connections for Hard Rain. We mark the 90th birthday of celebrated Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and perform his iconic reflective work Speigel im Speigel. We feature collaborations with Irish composers well-known to us, and recent international connections we have made.
A connection borne out of our 2025 UK/Poland project with British Council, and having worked with Lena Michajłów at AzTak Festival, we are delighted to bring her unique musical language to Belfast. We give the Irish premiere of works by Peter Fahey, Lecturer in Composition at Queen’s University and Richard Causton, Professor of Composition at the University of Cambridge. We also feature a world premiere of The Lake composed for us by Helgi Ingvarsson, whose music is “full of emotion and mesmerising”.
John McLachlan’s Aurora “is an exploration of collage techniques in music” referring to both dawn and the aurora borealis while Counterweight by Aílís Ní Ríain for contrabass clarinet challenges the impacts of exclusion, inequality and discrimination on an individual.
Programme
'Aurora' (2013) - John McLachlan (1964)
'Interior Scenes' (2025) - Peter Fahey (1982) Irish Premiere
'Speigel im Speigel' (1978) - Arvo Pärt (1935)
'The Lake' (2025) - Helgi Ingvarsson (1985) World Premiere
'What am I actually scared of' (2024) - Lena Michajłów (2002) Irish Premiere
'Counterweight' (2024) - Aílís Ní Ríain (1974) Irish Premiere
'Phoenix' (2006) - Richard Causton (1971) Irish Premiere
Tickets
£12.50/£7.50 (free for QUB staff and students). Book on Eventbrite.