Limerick Early Music Festival: Still, She Rises!

Photo by Dimitri Djuric.

Still, She Rises! celebrates the world premiere of Baile (“home” in Irish) by Xenia Pestova Bennett, whose new work for toy piano, clavichord, viola da gamba, and recorded women’s voices explores the universal themes of home, migration, and belonging.

Featuring: Ada Witczyk (baroque violin); Brooke Green (treble viol); Sarah Groser (bass viol); Xenia Pestova Bennett (toy piano, composer); Vlad Smishkewych (hurdy gurdy & percussion); Róisín Ní Gallóglaigh (voice); Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord, clavichord, artistic director).

Presented by Limerick Early Music Festival.

The concert is followed by a panel discussion with Ada Witczyk, who has inspired over 200 contemporary compositions for baroque violin; Brooke Green, whose compositions often draw inspiration from human stories and social justice; and Xenia Pestova Bennett, who enjoys a career as a composer and performer on modern piano, magnetic resonator piano, and toy piano. This panel will be chaired by harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske also a champion of new music for harpsichord as a solo and collaborative instrument.

Programme

Xenia Pestova Bennett - Baile (world premiere)

Also featured on this programme are works by Australian composer and viol player Brooke Green, including the Limerick premiere of Green’s piece 'Fuming: Johanna Fitzgibbon of Limerick' for Baroque trio, inspired by Green’s 3rd great grandmother from Limerick who, at age 16, was exiled to New South Wales in the 1800s for her first offence: stealing calico.

Other repertoire includes Jean Ahn’s duo 'Archimedes’ Principle' and Tal Arbel’s 'Alchemy'.

Tickets

€15/10. €5 for under 16s. Booking at the Belltable, Limerick.