Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble present Inner, featuring music by Ann Cleare, Gráinne Mulvey & Amy Rooney

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble present 'Inner', a concert of new music including work by CMC Composers Ann Cleare, Gráinne Mulvey & Amy Rooney.

We bring these six works together not only in celebration of International Women’s Day, but in reflection of the fact that the work being created inside and outside Ireland today by women is some of the most explorative and diverse in new music. The composers included also happen to offer us a representation of contemporary music as it is developing in Ireland and the United States.   Americans Agócs and Shatin both attended Juilliard and both studied with Milton Babbitt, but there the similarity ends. From different generations, each has their own voice. Without wanting to apply reductive terms in categorising the composers it will be obvious to the listener where each is coming from. It is also a treat to present a major work here by Thea Musgrave, a ‘transatlantic’ composer born and bred in Scotland but living in the U.S. since 1972 and having the distinction of studying with both Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland. From our own side of the pond we open our concert with perhaps Amy Rooney’s most expansive composition to date, commissioned last season for our ensemble by New Horizons Music. In contrast to the gently shifting textures in Amy’s music we present works by two of Ireland’s avant-gardists, Ann Cleare and Gráinne Mulvey, both of whom delight in the exploration of the extremities of sound. 

Programme

FLOW STATE* (2022) Amy Rooney (1983) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

INNER (2009) Ann Cleare (1983) amplified violoncello & piano

INTERSTICES (2011) Irish Premiere Gráinne Mulvey (1966) flute, clarinet, horn in F, violin, violoncello & piano

WERTHER (1984) Irish Premiere Judith Shatin (1949) flute (picc.), clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

ROGUE EMOJI (2019) Irish Premiere Kati Agócs (1984) flute (picc. afl.), clarinet (Eb, bcl.), violin & violoncello

CHAMBER CONCERTO Nᵒ2 (1966) Thea Musgrave (1928) flute (picc. afl.), clarinet (bcl.), violin (vla.), violoncello & piano

*Commissioned for HRSE by New Horizons Music with funds from ACNI.

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