MUSIC EVENTS AT QUEEN’S Autumn / Winter 2017

www.qub.ac.uk/ael/events Map Contact us 28 September 13.10 Concert Sonic Lab 5 T. 028 9097 5337 Roy Carroll University Street W. www.qub.ac.uk/ael/events Berlin-based Roy Carroll ‘s work encompasses improvisation, Fitzwilliam Street @creativeartsqub composition, collaborations with choreographers and University Square @creativeartsqub Botanic Avenue experimental research, with porous borders in between. His 4 1 works use multiple objects and materials interacting through amplification and signal processing to create multi-layered University Road forms, orbiting around the listener. We’re delighted to Key welcome him back to SARC. 3 Seminar Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. This concert is co-promoted by Moving On Music. Tickets are available via Concert their website at www.movingonmusic.com

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29 September 10.30 1 Old McMordie Hall (OMcMH) Seminar Sonic Lab

Malone Road 2 Sonic Lab (SARC) 3 Whitla Hall Note: All concert events are free except where stated. Roy Carroll However, ALL SARC event tickets must be booked Cloreen Park2 4 Harty Room in advance via Eventbrite: tickets are available at the Roy presents a seminar/workshop as a follow-up to the previous day’s 5 Crescent Arts Centre MovingOnMusic website. www.movingonmusic.com Sonic Lab concert 3 4 October 13.00 5 October 13.10 8 October 20.00 Seminar Old McMordie Hall Concert Harty Room Concert Sonic Lab

Sweet Shop or China Shop? Schubert’s Octet D803 FIX17 — VocalSuite: Ulster Orchestra Soloists, Negotiating a proliferation directed by Ioana Petcu-Colan Cleveland Watkiss of compositional paths In a co-promotion with Catalyst Arts as part of We are thrilled to open our 2017–18 season in the Dr Ian Wilson FIX 17 live art and performance festival, virtuoso Harty Room with a rare performance of one of the vocalist, actor and composer Cleveland Watkiss giants of European Chamber Music, Schubert’s presents VocalSuite. VocalSuite is an a-cappella vocal Octet. We welcome a solo ensemble from the improvisation performance that links musical cultures Ulster Orchestra, who continue their Creative from Africa to Europe together to create human Partnership with Queen’s this year; the ensemble vocal soundscapes. Watkiss has performed with is directed by Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin). artists as diverse as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, William Parker & Hamid Drake and Goldie.

Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. This concert is a co-promotion with Catalyst Arts. Tickets are available via the Moving On Music website at www.movingonmusic.com

4 5 11 October 13.00 12 October 13.10 18 October 13.00 19 October 13.10 Seminar Sonic Lab Concert Sonic Lab Seminar Old McMordie Hall Concert Harty Room

Frances-Marie Uitti Frances-Marie Uitti: Cello Voice, Text, Theatre: Sruth na Maoile —

Frances-Marie Uitti presents some of the Extraordinary cellist Frances-Marie Uitti will present Towards a New Monodrama Traditional Music from techniques which have made her such a force in compositions written for her by György Kurtág, Dr Robert Fokkens (Cardiff University) Scotland and Ireland contemporary composition for cello. Ken Ueno, Annie Gosfield and Jonathan Harvey. Frances-Marie revolutionised the cello, transforming BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Finalist it into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained Séamus Ó Baoighill (fiddle, pipes) is joined by chordal and intricate multivoiced writing by using Sruth na Maoile, featuring Ciaran McManus (guitar), two bows in one hand. She will be joined by Chloe Donnan (drums) and Muireann Ní Bhaoill saxophonist and improviser Franziska Schroeder, (song). The programme presents a collaboration of playing a newly commissioned animated graphics Scots and Irish traditional music and song. work, as well as a free improvisation.

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Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. This concert is a co-promotion with Moving On Music. Tickets are available via their website at www.movingonmusic.com

6 7 25 October 13.00 26 October 13.10 1 November 13.00 2 November 13.10 Seminar Sonic Lab Concert Sonic Lab Seminar Old McMordie Hall Concert Harty Room

Michael Zybszynski: Olan Monk Bax, Macleod and Celticism Mary McCabe, soprano Dr Aidan Thomson (Queen’s University) RAPID-MIX API: Machine Irish audiovisual artist and performer Olan Monk’s and Ruth McGinley, piano performances merge voice, technology and Learning for Musicians The young Northern Ireland soprano Mary physicality to create an immersive, environmental Michael Zybszynski McCabe, a distinguished graduate of Music in experience. He collaborates regularly with artists as QUB, returns to us fresh from working at Bayreuth. diverse as Actress, Ashley Paul and Michael Speers, 1 November 19.00 Michael Zbyszynski will present his latest research She is partnered by another of Northern Ireland’s and has played alongside Thurston Moore, Mats Seminar Old McMordie Hall integrating sensors, machine learning and young virtuosi, pianist Ruth McGinley, in an art song Gustafsson and Balazs Pandi at St John Sessions, Free — All are Welcome interactive audio. recital featuring composers such as Bax, Debussy and Martin Rev (of Suicide) at Café Oto. and Strauss. Meet the Music www.olan.xyz Professor Piers Hellawell soundcloud.com/olan_monk @olan_monk Meet The Music - a series of free, interactive discussions in which QUB Music staff think aloud Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. about their field of practice. In the first talk, This concert is co-promoted by Moving On Music. Tickets are available via their website at www.movingonmusic.com composer Piers Hellawell asks whether we can listen to new classical music with the expectations we bring to earlier repertoire. How does music communicate?

8 9 8 November 13.00 9 November 13.10 15 November 13.00 15 November 19.00 Seminar Sonic Lab Concert Sonic Lab Seminar Old McMordie Hall Seminar Old McMordie Hall Free — All are Welcome Phenomenological approaches Rhodri Davies: Harp A Director’s Notebook Rhodri Davies (harp), Aonghus McEvoy (guitar), Walter Sutcliffe (artistic director, NI Opera) Meet the Music to compositional process Tina Krekels (sax), Tristan Clutterbuck (electronics) Professor Ian Woodfield Holly Warner Rhodri Davies was born in 1971 and lives in “These cozy virtuosi”: Mozart and his singers.’ In our Swansea, South Wales. He plays harp, electric harp, second ‘Meet The Music’ evening, Ian Woodfield takes live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice us behind the scenes and into Mozart’s workshop in and fire harp installations. New pieces for solo harp the frenetic period of late 1789 as the premiere of have been composed for him by Eliane Radigue, Così Fan Tutte approached. Please note: NI OPERA Philip Corner, Phill Niblock, Christian Wolff, Alison present Così in the GOH, 17 to 19 November. Knowles, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone. Here he plays an improvisation-based set with guest www.niopera.com musicians well-known to SARC.

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Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. This concert is a co-promotion with Moving On Music. Tickets are available via their website at www.movingonmusic.com

10 11 16 November 13.10 23 November 13.10 Concert Harty Room Concert Sonic Lab SCAWduo Music from Maynooth Sarah Watts (bass clarinet), Antony Clare (piano) Iain McCurdy

We are delighted to welcome back SCAWduo, Maynooth University hosts Ireland’s largest music champions of exciting repertoire for bass clarinet department. This concert will showcase some of the and piano. Sarah Watts’ virtuosity as clarinettist is music that has emanated from Maynooth in recent already well known in Belfast from her work with years, from composing staff and from postgraduate Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble; her duo partner is and undergraduate composers. Works performed Antony Clare, a specialist in new piano repertoire. will include multichannel works for fixed medium The programme features composers connected to and live performed works involving dance. Belfast including Simon Mawhinney, Greg Caffrey and Piers Hellawell – all of them close collaborators Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. with Sarah over the years. This concert is co-promoted by Moving On Music. Tickets are available via their website at www.movingonmusic.com

12 13 29 November 13.00 30 November 13.10 2 December 11.00 6 December 13.00 Seminar Old McMordie Hall Concert Harty Room Concert Harty Room Seminar Sonic Lab

Memory, Ideology and Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble JAM Christmas Concert Roche/Zöllner Duo Young Artists: Susanna Griffin (violin) and JAM 1 and 2 students the Building of Tradition: Olivia Palmer-Baker (bassoon) with Daniel Browell (piano) Heather and Eva give a workshop on techniques The Protest Songs of 1848 The youngest pupils at QUB — Children age 4–8 for clarinets and accordion, both in isolation and in We are delighted to present a recital by this year’s attending Junior Academy of Music programmes — combination, in advance of Thursday’s performance. in the German Folk Revival Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble Young Artists, Susanna will be singing from their repertoire of choir songs. Dr David Robb (Queen’s University) Griffin (violin) and Olivia Palmer-Baker (bassoon), who are partnered by HRSE’s pianist Daniel Browell. As £5 part of their mentoring scheme these young Northern 6 December 19.30 Ireland virtuosi will present an exciting mix of works Concert Crescent Art Centre 29 November 19.00 by Debussy, Pärt, MacMillan and Stockhausen. Seminar Old McMordie Hall Free — All are Welcome QUB Big Band Christmas Concert Meet the Music Directed by Stephen Barnett Dr Trevor Agus This popular winter event is given by local jazz specialists ‘Can You Hear Me At The Back?’ In the third of a QUB Big Band. The concert will feature an array of series of informal events under the title Meet The local soloists, offering a programme of jazz classics and Music, hearing expert Trevor Agus talks about new seasonal favourites under the baton of Stephen Barnett. hearing technologies and how hearing loss impacts on listening to music. £7, £5 14 15 7 December 13.10 7 December 19.30 9 December 11.00 Concert Sonic Lab Concert Whitla Hall Concert Harty Room Roche/Zöllner Duo QUSO Christmas Concert JAM Christmas Concert Heather Roche (clarinets) and Eva Zöllner (accordion) Queen’s University Symphony Orchestra, JAM 3 students conducted by Niall Catney and Cormac McCool Eva Zöllner (accordion) and Heather Roche (clarinets), both JAM 3 pupils (age 8–17) attending Junior Academy long since active on the international stage as soloists and Please join us for our annual Christmas concert, of Music programmes at the School of AEL in chamber musicians, come together for the second year featuring a programme of seasonal and classical Queen’s will be showcasing some of their activities. of their collaboration to present a number of new pieces favourites. Join us to hear JAM 3 choir, Brass bands and Flute for their instruments in combination with electronics. The and Guitar ensembles. SARC performance includes Pierre Alexandre Tremblay’s £7, £5 sprawling asinglewordisnotenough4 with its meandering £5 dissonances, noise and thumping rhythms and new works by Luis Antunes Pena and Antti Saario. The two musicians then add some recent solo collaborations into the mix by Michelle Lou (for bass clarinet and Bluetooth speaker) and Farzia Fallah (for accordion and electronics).

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Free, but tickets must be booked in advance via Eventbrite. This concert is co-promoted by Moving On Music. Tickets are available via their website at www.movingonmusic.com

16 17 13 December 13.00 13 December 19.30 14 December 13.10 Seminar Old McMordie Hall Concert Harty Room Concert Harty Room

Exploring The Multiverse: Marco Fusi Alan Barnes and Friends A Compositional Journey Violin and viola d’amore Alan Barnes (alto sax) with Steve Barnett and Friends Marco Fusi has an international reputation as both The star jazz front man, Alan Barnes, makes a a violinist and a violist and brings to contemporary welcome return from London with his alto sax for Franz Liszt’s Piano Sonata in music a special blend of acuity and excitement. our traditional programme of jazz standards. Alan B Minor: Thematic Typology This evening concert features music for violin and is joined by Steve Barnett and Friends. the rare viola d’amore. The programme includes and Hermeneutic Narrative works by local composers Greg Caffrey and Research students Christopher McCann and Bryan Simon Mawhinney. Whitelaw discuss their work

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