Brian Irvine and Friends
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About this event
An exciting, unpredictable musical adventure for children of all ages with a musical wizard as your guide...
The unique, multi-award winning, musical dynamo that is composer and musician Brian Irvine will be joined by Malachy Robinson (bass), Francesco Turrisi (multi-instrumentalist) and Eamon Sweeney (guitar) for a concert of newly-composed works, improvisations and on-the-spot creations. Produced in association with Music Generation Wicklow.
Brian Irvine:
Composer/conductor Brian Irvine was born in Belfast. His huge body of work includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale participatory work, films, multi-media installations, dance works as well as ensemble, solo, and chamber pieces. His sound world is a personal concoction of contemporary classical, cartoon, punk, jazz, thrash and trash and combines the lost, the fixed, the free, the learned, the naïve, the precious and the junk. He has won two BSACA British Composers Awards as well as the Radio 3 Jazz Award for best new work.
“Some of the most exhilarating and imaginative music you'll ever hope to hear…”
Washington Post
Francesco Turrisi: Collaborations include Booby McFerrin, L’Arpeggiata, The King Singers. ‘musical alchemist’–Irish Times
Malachy Robinson: Principal double bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. ‘unassuming virtuosity’– Irish Times
This concert is curated by Eamon Sweeney, Music Network Artist in Residence 2018/9 an initiative of Music Network in partnership with Wicklow County Council Arts Office and Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre.
Location
Main St, Bray
Venue details
Since their launch in August 2002, Mermaid Arts Centre has made a splash in the artistic and cultural life of County Wicklow. Presenting an ambitious programme of performances including innovative dance, spellbinding theatre, cutting edge music and art-house cinema.
