Grete Pedersen & Chamber Choir Ireland – Kilkenny Arts Festival
The Black Abbey, Kilkenny
16 August 2019
Programme
Kaija Saariaho—Nuits, adieux
Ørjan Matre—Orphic Songs Prologue, Rite, Hyphnos
Louis Andriessen—Un Beau Baiser
Deirdre McKay—Sable sui glisse (commissioned by New Music Dublin, 2019)
Rhona Clarke—The Kiss
Maja Linderoth—Sonnet form denatured prose
Performers
Chamber Choir Ireland
Grete Pedersen—Conductor
After its sold-out, late-night concerts exploring choral works through the ages, Chamber Choir Ireland returns to the Kilkenny Arts Festival with a radical new approach. Led by celebrated Norwegian conductor Grete Pederson, the Choir will perform an exciting suite of contemporary pieces by a wealth of European composers. Featuring Louis Andriessen’s gorgeous Un Beau Baiser, as well as recent works by leading Irish composers Rhona Clarke and Deirdre McKay, this truly is, as The Journal of Music put it, ‘new music for everyone’.
‘a sheerly beautiful immersion in choral sonority’ Irish Times
‘a veritable tour de force of new choral music … in Chamber Choir Ireland we surely enjoy one of the leading vocal ensembles in Europe’ The Journal of Music
