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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Explore the new notes of ConTempo quartet with a free concert
By Mairead O’Shea
COME AND celebrate Irish female composers in a feast of musical sounds and outstanding technique.
The Contemporary Music Centre presents a free concert on Friday March 20th at Roscommon Arts Centre as part of its New Notes project with the internationally renowned Galway EnsembleinResidence, ConTempo.
New Notes is a year-long collaboration between the Contemporary Music Centre and the Galway EnsembleinResidence and has facilitated two new string quartets being written for the ConTempo Quartet by Irish composers Rhona Clarke and Gráinne Mulvey.
Recognised as one of the world’s top string quartets, ConTempo has worked with many celebrated quartets, including the Emerson, Amadeus, Alban Berg, Hagen and Tokyo quartets. They have toured the world extensively. The ConTempo String Quartet became Galway’s first Ensemble-in-Residence in January 2003. The ConTempo Quartet are Bogdan Sofei, first violin, Ingrid Nicola, second violin, Andreea Banciu, viola and Adrian Mantu, cello.
Composer Rhona Clarke is a lecturer of music at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Gráinne Mulvey has had work performed and commissioned in Ireland and Europe and teaches composition at the DIT conservatory of music and drama. There will be an accompanying projection for Rhona Clarke’s Pas de Quatre by Marie Hanlon, a visual artist with an established reputation in the field of abstract painting.
This is her first work using projected photographic elements. The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland’s national library and promotion agency for new music. ConTempo, The Galway Ensemblein-Residence, serves at the heart of a music development programme for Galway city and county. The project aims to enrich, inspire and encourage those already involved in music and to increase access for those who have no previous engagement with music.
New Notes has enabled the Contemporary Music Centre to bring the work of Irish composers and the quartet to regional venues outside of Dublin and Galway. New Notes is funded by the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Project: New Work Award 2008.
Tickets to this free event are available at Roscommon Arts Centre box office 090 66 25824.
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