Ulysses Journey 2022: Live Concert Recording from Sundays@Noon

Tue 17 May 2022

Sundays@Noon - Concert Catch-up ULYSSES JOURNEY

Recorded live at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, this concert is the second iteration in a series of international concerts performed by Hungarian guitarist Katalin Koltai and Irish soprano Elizabeth Hilliard as part of Ulysses Journey 2022. Presented by CMC in partnership with Sundays@Noon, and preceded by a concert in Belfast and followed by concerts in Budapest and Paris in June 2022, this concert showcases new and existing music by Irish and Hungarian composers whose works were selected by Katalin following an open call.

The event featured introductions given by the composers Gráinne Mulvey, Daragh Black Hynes, Petra Szászi and Greg Caffrey in conversation with CMC's Linda O'Shea Farren.

Programme

Gráinne Mulvey -  Soft morning, city! 

Samu Gryllus - four simple studies for K.K. Monument IV (World Premiere) 

Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus 

Petra Szászi - Oak (2021)

Márton Szőcs - manque (World Premiere) 

Alessio Elia - Caducae resonantiae (World Premiere) 

Máté Balogh - Little Harry Hughes

Greg Caffrey - The Private Consciousness of Molly Bloom (2015) performed by Katalin Koltai and Elizabeth Hilliard

 

An illustration in sea blue, black and white, of Joyce's tower in Sandycove, Dublin, with the rocky coast and the sea in the foreground. Ulysses Journey 2022 is written in large 1920's style type.

The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Project Lottery Funding. Ulysses Journey 2022 is a programme of events and commissions celebrating the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses across Ireland, France and Hungary from February to June 2022. Responding to Ulysses, this project features an international series of concerts, screenings of six newly commissioned music and film works and talks about Joyce. The Ulysses Journey 2022 new music and film works were co-commissioned with the Centre Culturel Irlandais as part of its Joyce Season (2 February - 20 June 2022) supported by the Irish Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 programme. Other funders and partners include Budapest Music Center; Centre Culturel Hongrois, Paris; Embassy of Ireland, Hungary; FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture; Irish Film Institute; Moving on Music; New Music Dublin; One Dublin One Book through funding from Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, Dublin City Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Embassy of Hungary, Dublin; Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC); Sundays @ Noon at The Hugh Lane Gallery.