Ensemble Modern - Open Grounds
Date: Sunday 23rd April
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: Windmill QTR (map) Please note change of venue from NCH to here
Tickets €14
Ensemble Modern
Dietmar Wiesner, flute
Christian Hommel, oboe
Moritz Schneidewendt, clarinet
Johannes Schwarz, bassoon
Cecilie Schwager, horn
Sava Stoianov, trumpet
Uwe Dierksen, trombone
Orlando Bass, piano
Špela Mastnak, drums
Giorgos Panagiotidis, violin
Adam Woodward, violin
Benoît Morel, viola
Michael Maria Kasper, cello
Paul Cannon, double bass
Side-by-side with students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music
Kim O'Brien, flute | Michael Noonan, flute | Laoise Corrigan, flute | Anna Mangold, oboe | Brian Clinton, saxophone | Javier Fernandez, horn | Anastasia Despotis, horn | Nathan McDonnell, trumpet | Sandor Dabasi, trombone | Adam Buttimer, tuba | Shane Quinn, violin | Erin Hennessey, violin | JiSun Min, violin
Rohan Harron, violin | Paula Perez Beltran, violin | Marta García Villalobos, viola | Doireann Ní Aodáin, cello | Ensheng Chen, cello | John Claffey, double bass | Jun Bo Fu, percussion | Chi Hui Ho, percussion | Emily Gatchell, percussion
Hans Zender Modelle für variable Besetzung (1971-73)
David Fennessy OPEN GROUND (2022)
Described as ‘a curious loudspeaker for music of our times: courageous, uncompromising, energetic’, Ensemble Modern is one of the world’s leading current music groups—performing to the highest level approximately 70 new compositions and multiple world premieres every year.
In this concert for New Music Dublin, composer David Fennessy’s 2022 commission OPEN GROUND receives its Irish premiere in a joyful assertion of togetherness, as the ensemble’s international players are joined by performers from across Ireland. Paired with Hans Zender’s open form Modelle für variable Besetzung (1971-73) – a fascinating musical exploration of the tension between freedom and rigidity – this performance promises to be a highlight of NMD 2023.
Ensemble Modern is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the City of Frankfurt, the German Ensemble Academy, the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts. hr2-kultur is Ensemble Modern’s cultural affairs partner.
