The music of composer Seán Ó Riada, who is credited with re-igniting the popularity of Irish traditional music, is celebrated by An Droichead in association with Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in a unique performance of a new arrangement of his mass in Belfast on Thursday 26 September 2013 at 8pm in Rosemary St. Presbyterian Church Belfast.
Tickets £15 are available from
An Droichead 20 Cooke Street
Ormeau Road
Belfast
BT7 2EP
Phone: 028 90 288818
or here
The new arrangement was completed by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, a composer of international fame. A native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he most recently has been a composer-in-residence at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Yanov-Yanovsky has received commissions from celebrated musicians including the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet and Hilliard Ensemble. Yanov-Yanovsky’s music was first performed in Ireland at LCMS’s Sounds of the Silk Road Concert at Drogheda Arts Festival in 2011. Yanov-Yanovsky has arranged the mass for 16 voices, fiddle, harp and bodhrán. The mass will be performed by the finest Irish professional singers in the newly formed EQ Singers, with Zoe Conway on fiddle, Siobhan Armstrong on harp and Gary Grant on bodhrán. The choir and players will be conducted by Eamonn Dougan Associate Conductor of internationally renowned ensemble The Sixteen.
Iarla Ó Lionáird will perform a selection of sacred hymns before the choral performance. It is fitting that Iarla Ó Lionáird will take part in this event. Iarla Ó Lionáird grew up in Cúil Aodha, Cork. His neighbour Seán Ó Riada was often the Ó Lionáird home and the young Iarla was a member of Ó Riada’s choir, which he entered in childhood and remained in into his early twenties.
This night promises to be an unforgettable performance in the unique surrounds of Rosemary St Presbyterian Church.
