Finding A Voice presents Alex Petcu - It's About Time

This visually and aurally exciting concert will feature music for marimba and vibraphone from one of Ireland’s leading percussionists. The concert will include the world première of the winning piece in the Finding a Voice Emerging Composer Competition, run in association with the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, Abigail Smith's Certain of Uncertainty.

Alex’s concert will also include a special focus on the music of influential Japanese composer Keiko Abe, one of the world’s most celebrated composers for the modern marimba, alongside works by renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie as well as Australian and Irish composers.

Living and working in Dublin, Abigail Smith is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, conductor and educator. She studied music at NUI Maynooth, viola with Simon Aspell and Vanessa Sweeney, and Music Production and Games at Griffith College Dublin. Her debut album Night Time Walking was released in 2009 to great acclaim, and in 2015 her song cycle Fall into Silence was recorded and released. In 2021, Abigail received an Arts Council Ireland Agility Award.

An Irish musician of Romanian origin, Alex Petcu has established himself nationally and internationally as a percussionist of the finest calibre. His debut album, Alex Petcu: In Time was released on the RTE Lyric fm label in 2015. Alex performs in a wide variety of settings with a multitude of orchestras – including both RTE orchestras, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Crash Ensemble and Hard Rain Ensemble. His main specialty lies in solo and chamber music. Recent solo appearances include Finding a Voice Concert Series, West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the National Concert Hall.

Finding a Voice is a four-day concert series that focuses on music by women composers through the ages and around the world, in celebration of International Women’s Day.