Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble: Featured Young Artists
Harty Room, Queen’s University
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble are proud to present this recital in partnership with the Ulster Youth Orchestra. Here two Featured Young Artists violinist Orla McGarrity and flautist Laoise Corrigan perform as soloists with the ensemble.
The programme is bookended by two recent works: Raymond Deane’s 2023 commission for Hard Rain Skew Weft and Kevin Free’s Kittens in the Kitchen, a finalist in the Peter Rosser Award 2024. Our Young Artists include a range of virtuosic and atmospheric solos from local composers Deirdre McKay and Daniel Quigley, alongside international counterparts: a Japanese-inspired work from Dutch composer Wil Offerman, a Dance from leading American flautist-composer Valerie Coleman, and Preludes by the Soviet-born Austrian-American Lera Auerbach.
Programme
Skew Weft (2023)* - Raymond Deane (1953) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano
Danza de la Mariposa (Dance of the Butterfly) (2008) - Valerie Coleman (1970) solo flute
Tsuru-no-Sugomori (Nesting of Cranes) (1999) - Will Offerman (1983) solo flute
Masque Incidental (1960) - Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) flute, violin
If a Tree Falls in the Forest (2024) World premiere - Daniel Quigley (1999) solo violin
Secundum (2001)*** - Deirdre McKay (1972) violin, piano
Preludes (1999) - Lera Auerbach (1973) violin, piano
Kittens in the Kitchen (2023)** - Kevin Free (1992) flute (alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello, piano
* Commissioned by HRSE, with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland
** Finalist in the 6th Peter Rosser Award
*** Commissioned by Belfast Music Society
Tickets
£5 (Free for QUB staff and students). Booking at Eventbrite.