Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble present New Horizons featuring music by Amy Rooney & Ian Wilson

This project initiated by New Horizons Music propels Amy Rooney and Eduard Zatriqi into the spotlight with major commissions (offered by New Horizons Music and funded through ACNI Lottery Project Funding). Both composers have featured several times in previous HRSE programmes; Amy, with several works including her 2019 work, Attrition, commissioned for the ensemble with funds from the PRSf Talent Development Partnership, and Eduard with his 2016 work, War Games, which was awarded First Prize in the 1st Peter Rosser Composition Award. It subsequently went on to receive a live HRSE broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Completing the programme are the voices of Ian Wilson and Rebecca Saunders. Wilson’s work, commissioned by HRSE in 2018 is sparse, austere and unconventional in its use of the ensemble forces, while the Saunders trio, an early work written when she was still a student with Wolfgang Rhim, seems to play with colours and light, as far as that may be expressed in music.

Programme

Amy Rooney - FLOW STATE*** (2022 WORLD PREMIERE) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

Ian Wilson - THE EMPTINESS OF THE EVER EXPANDING UNIVERSE CANNOT COMPARE TO THE VOID WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE* (2018) alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

Rebecca Saunders - THE UNDER-SIDE OF GREEN (1994) clarinet, violin & piano

Eduard Zatriqi - PIERROT'S SPLENDIFEROUS SYMPHONIC DANCES*** (2022 WORLD PREMIERE) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

*Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

*** Commissioned by New Horizons Music with funds from ACNI Lottery Project Funding

Tickets

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