CMC presents OurTunes

The Contemporary Music Centre present OurTunes - A boutique day long contemporary music festival curated by cellist Adrian Mantu for 5 - 10 year olds and their parents and friends complete with worksheets and opportunities to respond to the music performed.

Follow the Water Music from one room to another at the Contemporary Music Centre and try to find and listen to Handel's amazing music especially re-arranged in six different versions for number 19 Fishamble Street, which is located beside the site of the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, performed alongside some of the best 21st Century music! Discover and be intrigued by the electric cellist, the 10 Strings Duo (guitar/violin), the white dancer from Galway, the exotic duo (harp/flute), the jazzy afro-american clarinetist and the Bronte Girls with renowned artists from the RTÉ and Galway Music Residency ConTempo Quartet and young rising stars from RIAM, DIT, Maynooth University, winners of Feis Ceoil and Free Mason Young Musician of the Year Competitions.

Ticket Price: Free admission but ticketed. Booking essential.

OurTunes takes place as part of the MusicTown festival - see musictown.ie.

Programme: Duration 2 hours (includes breaks, worksheets and art activities)

Times - 10am – 12pm; 1pm – 3pm and 4pm – 6pm
 

Frontsteps

Berginald Rash (clarinet)
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe
Louis Cahuzac - Arlequin
Leslie Basset - Soliloquies.

Downstairs lobby

Andreea Banciu (viola)
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe

Aileen Cahill (electric piano)
Laurence Roman - Carpathian Suite
Glinka - Viola Sonata

(1pm and 4pm shows only)

Adrian Mantu (cello)
Jane O’Leary - duo (new work) PREMIERE

Andreea Banciu (viola)
Bella Bartok - Romanian Dances

(10am show)

Courtyard

Katie Hyland (flute/piccolo)
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe
Claude Debussy - Syrinx
John Buckley - Three Pieces for Solo Flute No.1
Tillman Denhard - Wake Up! for Piccolo & Alarm Clock

Library

Alex Petcu Colan (percussion)
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe
Sam Barker - Sonnet no.3 (for solo vibraphone)
Alex Petcu -Water Drumming

(10am and 1pm show only)

Adrian Mantu (cello)
Jane O’Leary - duo (new work)

Andreea Banciu (viola)
Bella Bartok - Romanian Dances

(4pm show )

Front Office

OAK Duo
Katie Neville (guitar)
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe

Orlaith McHugh (violin)
Astor Piazzolla - Café 1930 from Histoire du Tango
Martin O’Leary - new work PREMIERE

Meeting Room

Adrian Mantu Cello
G.F. Handel - Water Music Hornpipe
Giovanni Solima - Lamentacio
Hamza El Din - Water Wheel - with video projection by Mihai Cucu