HLG Sunday Concert Series presents: Spotlight Chamber Music I

Hugh Lane Gallery Sunday Concert Series from the Abbey Church presents:

Spotlight Chamber Music Series I

Jennifer Murphy – violin

Paul Grennan – cello

Andreas Ioannides – piano

Programme:

Emma O’Halloran: Vertical Fields for Piano Trio

Vasks: Castillo Interior for String Duo

Mozart: Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, K. 496

For this concert, presented by the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Sunday Concert Series in partnership with the Spotlight Chamber Music Series, three of Ireland’s most accomplished chamber musicians come together to present a beautiful programme encompassing contrasting genres and a variety of sonic landscapes.

The recital will open with Vertical Fields, a piano trio composed in 2014 by GRAMMY-nominated Athlone native Emma O’Halloran, whose music is driven by a fascination with joy, wonder, hope, and human connection. In this short work, she utilises the resonance of the piano as a portal that allows the string textures to transform over time. A motoric pattern in the strings evolves and mutates as if it’s being pushed through different atmospheric densities, vertical fields of thin and thick air. A duo for violin and cello, Castillo Interior, by contemporary Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks will follow, a work based on writings of the same name by the sixteenth-century Carmelite nun Saint Teresa of Ávila. The passages of almost sacred, meditative stillness created by the chorale-like writing in this work are punctuated by raw, intense and dramatic flurries of activity, as if to represent profound revelations on Saint Teresa’s journey towards enlightenment. The second of Mozart’s six piano trios, in three movements (Allegro, Andante and Allegretto), will conclude the programme. Written with the composer’s dear friends, the Jacquin family, in mind, this work exudes conviviality, abounding with elegance, sparkling brilliance and wonderfully operatic lyricism.

This concert, presented by three exceptional artists, promises to be unmissable.