Metronome: Bones, Rocks and Jackhammers
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About this event
Venue The Studio
Catherine Sikora
Joanna Mattrey
From New York to Paris to the wild coastline of the West of Ireland: “Bones, Rocks and Jackhammers,” is a concert reflecting on place, nature and the environment.
Featuring music by Finola Merivale and Catherine Sikora, this event is a celebration of the launch of Abhaile, – an album of three works for saxophone, improvisation and electronics, composed by Finola for Catherine. Hailed by The Washington Post as one of “23 composers to watch in 2023,” Finola is an Irish composer currently living in Paris, where she is a Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Catherine is a saxophonist living in New Mexico; she has been called a “virtuosic firebrand,” by The Brooklyn Rail and “a revelation,” by The Jazz Magazine.
In an opening set of improvisation, Catherine will perform some of her own compositions and will be joined by violist Joanna Mattrey.
Presented by NCH
Location
Earlsfort Terrace
Venue details
The National Concert Hall sits proudly on Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin’s city centre and is home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Music Network and Music Generation. Next door to the picturesque Iveagh Gardens and in the heart of a commercial district known as the National Concert Hall Quarter, it hosts over 1000 events per annum. Its mission, to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.
