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WALLED CITY MUSIC ANNOUNCES SUPERB LINE-UP OF ARTISTS FOR SPRING SERIES

written by stephen March 4, 2015
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Crash Ensemble (Photo credit Ros Kavanagh)Walled City Music will host a brand new Spring Series from Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th April, with a host of new works, performances of 20th century masterpieces, and visits from some of the UK and Ireland’s leading ensembles.   

Guest artists include the Red Note Ensemble (Scotland) performing 13 Vices, a newly created, improvisatory work composed by former punk musician and Belfast Music Laureate Brian Irvine and Dublin-born composer and vocalist, Jennifer Walshe.

Northern Ireland’s newest new music ensemble, the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, will perform Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg, one of the 20th century’s most influential and radical masterpieces, with soprano soloist Aoife Miskelly.

The series will close on Saturday 11th April with a first solo performance in Derry by Ireland’s leading contemporary music group, the Crash Ensemble, who will perform five works, including two premieres, by the cream of young Irish composing talent ‘Born in the 80s’.

Executive Director of Walled City Music, Matthew Greenall, said “We are delighted to welcome to Derry such an exciting concentration of talent for the three days of our Spring Series ‘mini-fest’.

“It gives Derry audiences, and visitors from further afield, the chance to experience some of the best, and most innovative music being written today, as well as to hear classic works that have changed the language, and transformed even how we think about music.”

Walled City Music Spring Series Timetable:

Thursday 9th April, The Great Hall (Magee) – 13 Vices, Brian Irvine & Jennifer Walshe

Friday 10th April, The Great Hall (Magee) – Pierrot Lunaire, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

Saturday 11th April, The Cinema Bar, St. Columb’s Hall – Born in the 80s, Crash Ensemble

Tickets are available from the Millennium Forum Box Office, New Market Street, Derry on +44 2871 264 455 or online at www.millenniumforum.co.uk

The Spring Series is supported by Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Ireland, PRS for Music Foundation and Moving On Music.

 

Additional information at www.walledcitymusic.com.

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