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Download Programme Book Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 Online Edition 25 - 28 March 2021 Artistic Directors: Cathal Breslin & Sabrina Hu Barry Douglas Li-Wei Qin Kirill Troussov/Alexandra Troussova Measha Brueggergosman Jeffrey Zeigler 1 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 combines jazz p(f)unk and contemporary WELCOME! music, performed by poet-speaker Lynne Procope, steel-pan player Andy Akiho, and percussionist Sean Dixon. We are delighted to welcome you to the 12th Walled City Music Festival in 2021, The Gala Final concert will be a fascinating which is also our 1st online WCM Festival! experience. As Artistic Directors, The need to present the Festival online has Sabrina and I will perform in a stunning been challenging but it has also opened up collaboration with the Arizona State innovative creative ideas and opportunities, University Music and Dance Faculty. This and we have created very unique concert performance will feature an eclectic mix of experiences, combining many different modern, hip hop and salsa dancing set to styles of music, dance, flm and poetry. It music by local traditional Irish musicians, FESTIVAL SCHEDULE will be a complete visual and audio flm Irish composers Linda Buckley, Greg experience crossing lots of arts boundaries, Caffrey, Jonathan Nangle and Christopher that might not have been created live. Norby, and violinist/composer Daniel Roumain. A unique experience, we flmed Thursday 25 March In a year of changes, we are making the some of it at the Desert Botanical Gardens, theme of this year’s Festival “Solace” and combining all of these styles of dance with Podcast: Measha Brueggergosman, 12pm “Hope”, and what that means for our Irish traditional music and the backdrop of Opening Gala Variety Concert, 8pm Festival musicians where they are. As well the desert, it will be a stunning experience! as flming in Derry, we are flming our concerts from New York City, Phoenix in Additionally, the festival will present a new Friday 26 March Arizona, Munich, Toronto and Singapore. series of podcasts featuring interviews with our Festival artists covering topics Podcast: Frank Lyons, 12pm We begin our Festival this year with a from music, poetry, dance and flm. We performance from three of our favorite will also have a Composer’s Surgery for WCM International Piano Competition Highlights: Round 1, 2pm Festival artists that we have all heard in young composers, and a series from the Barry Douglas In Concert, 8pm Derry over the last 12 years. Soprano hugely successful 2020 Walled City Music Measha Brueggergosman will be singing International Online Piano Competition. from Toronto with a programme of Saturday 27 March hymns, spirituals and the Musicals, cellist We would not have been able to bring Li-Wei Qin will be performing Bach from together such an exciting festival programme without the kind fnancial Podcast: Jeffrey Zeigler/Lynne Procope, 12pm Singapore, and violinist Kirill Troussov WCM International Piano Competition Highlights: Semi-Final Round, 2pm and pianist Alexandra Troussova will be support of the Arts Council of Northern Composer Surgery Workshops, 3.30pm – 8.30pm performing Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Tchaikovsky from Munich. Council, Ulster University, KPMG. and Jeffrey Zeigler and Friends, 9pm Yamaha. A special thank you to our Then we will have a fantastic recital Executive Director, Matthew Greenall, from renowned Northern Irish pianist, our Festival Manager, Fiona Crosbie, our Sunday 28 March Barry Douglas, gold medal winner of the wonderful Board, and our Festival Team for Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, making the 12th Festival one that is not to Podcast: Carley Condor/Jorge Magana, 12pm performing Romantic Russian works be missed! WCM International Piano Competition Highlights: Final Round, 2pm including Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Closing Gala Concert, 8pm Exhibition, Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, and Cathal Breslin and Sabrina Hu Rachmaninov’s Moments Musicaux. The Artistic Directors concert is flmed from the Great Hall at Ulster University in Derry. Watch it all for free at walledcitymusic.com, Facebook or YouTube Following that, we have a powerful concert experience in Jeffrey Zeigler and Friends flmed from New York, it is a concert that 2 3 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 PROGRAMME Opening Li-Wei Qin (cello) Gala Variety J. S. Bach: Cello Suite Concert No. 1 in G major Kirill Troussov (violin) THURSDAY 25 MARCH, 8PM and Alexandra Troussova (piano) Join us for an evening of world-class Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3 music-making from across the globe in E-fat major, 1st movement featuring the award-winning Canadian Saint-Saëns: Havanaise in Soprano, Measha Brueggergosman, E major, Op. 83 one of the most sought-after cellists of his generation, Chinese Australian Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo Li-Wei Qin, and the brilliantly virtuosic in C major, Op. 34 sibling duo Kirill Troussov (violin) and Alexandra Troussova (piano) from Measha Brueggergosman Germany. (soprano) Larry Bjornson (bass) Dave Burton (drums) Stephen Lee (guitar) Silvio Pupo (keys) Bliss and Spafford: It Is Well With My Soul Spiritual: There is a Balm in Gilead Hymn: Be Thou My Vision Hymn: The Blessing Spiritual: Down By the Riverside 4 5 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 Barry Douglas PROGRAMME Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Op. 37a: January, October, In Concert December FRIDAY 26 MARCH, 8PM Prokofev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 74, Nos. 4 and 6 Internationally-renowned Irish pianist Rachmaninov: Moments Barry Douglas joins us for a very special Musicaux Op. 16, Nos. 4 recital featuring some of the greatest and 5 in Russian romantic piano music; Mussorgsky: Pictures at Tchaikovsky, Prokofev, Rachmaninov an Exhibition and Mussorgsky. Recorded exclusively for the 2021 Walled City Music Festival in the Great Hall, Ulster University Magee, don’t miss this brilliant and bold performance by the piano virtuoso. 6 7 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 Jeff Zeigler LINE UP Andy Akiho (steelpan) and Friends Jeffrey Zeigler (cello) Lynne Procope (vocals) SATURDAY 27 MARCH, 9PM Sean Dixon (drums) Jeffrey Zeigler and Friends take us on a collaborative exploration of meaning and conversation. Expect a blend of hard driving rhythms and biting social commentary that utilizes steelpan, cello, drums, and poetry/vocals. Drawing from a variety of musical styles, this group forms a brash symphony that nods the head, moves the feet, and asks viewers to challenge and disturb their own comfort. The resulting work is a bold narrative about people, justice, struggle, joy, and celebration. Filmed exclusively for Walled City Music Festival in National Sawdust, NYC and Yamaha Artist Centre, NYC. 8 9 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 Closing Gala PERFORMERS CHOREOGRAPHERS PROGRAMME 1. Greg Caffrey: Honk, performed by Christopher Buí (traditional Irish musicians) Carley Conder Creviston (saxophone), Hannah Creviston Concert (piano), Salsa Dance choreographed by David Cathal Breslin (piano) David Olarte Olarte SUNDAY 28 MARCH, 8PM Christopher Creviston Eileen Stanley (saxophone) 2. Linda Buckley: Solas, poem by Doireann Ní In partnership with Arizona State Jorge Magana (House) Ghríofa performed by Cathal Breslin (piano), University Dance Faculty Daniel Roumain (violin) Sabrina Hu (fute), Modern Dance Keith Thompson choreographed by Keith Thompson Hannah Creviston (piano) The Walled City Music Festival Mary Fitzgerald 3. Jonathan Nangle: Solas, performed by Jiji Kim Jiji Kim (electric guitar) is thrilled to present this stunning (electric guitar), Salsa Dance choreographed by collaboration of music and dance Sabrina Hu (fute) David Olarte in partnership with the Arizona DANCERS 4. Christopher Norby: Moviola Music, State University Dance Faculty. performed by Cathal Breslin (piano) and Sabrina Hu (fute) Featuring traditional Irish music COMPOSERS Amy Symonds performed and recorded in An 5. Daniel Roumain: Seven Simple Solos, Brayden Genteel performed by Daniel Roumain (violin), Modern Culturlánn (Derry), and music Christopher Norby (N. Ireland/ Dance choreographed by Mary Fitzgerald and composed by Irish composers Linda USA) Carla Leon Eileen Standley Buckley, Greg Caffrey, Jonathan Daniel Roumain (Haiti/USA) David Olarte Nangle and Christopher Norby, and 6. Buí (performed and recorded in Cultúrlann, Dominique “Domo” Brown Derry) with Modern Dance by Carley Conder violinist/composer Daniel Roumain, Greg Caffrey (Ireland) this performance will be a very special Jonathan Nangle (Ireland) Emily Laird 7. Buí (performed and recorded in Cultúrlann, spectacle of modern dance, hip hop Derry) with Hip Hop by Jorge Magana (House) Linda Buckley (Ireland) Kayla Anderson and salsa to close the 12thWalled City Lauren Jimenez Filmed in Cutúrlann (Derry), Arizona State University Music Festival. and Desert Botanical Gardens (Phoenix, Arizona). Mike “Mr.Groove” Cruz Ruby Morales Victoria Ward 10 11 Walled City Music Festival | Online Edition 2021 Podcast Series Jeffrey Zeigler and Lynne Procope SATURDAY 27 MARCH, 12PM A four-part series of lively conversations featuring cellist Jeffrey Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and poet Lynne Procope talk to Co-Artistic Zeigler and poet Lynne Procope, choreographers Carley Condor Directors Cathal Breslin and Sabrina Hu about their lives in words and Jorge Magana (House), soprano Measha Brueggergosman, and and music and their collaboration for this year’s Festival. composer Frank Lyons. Carley Conder and House Magana Measha Brueggergosman
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