Booking available HERE from 10am Monday 3 March
National String Quartet Foundation present:
ORA QUARTET
Siun Milne, violin
Molly O’Shea, violin
Ali Comerford, viola
Yseult Cooper-Stockdale, cello
MARKING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MARCH 8th
IN COLLABORATION WITH FINDING A VOICE FESTIVAL
Elizabeth Maconchy Quartet No.3 [1938]
Ailbhe McDonagh Lore Quartet [2023]
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About Ora Quartet
The Ora Quartet is one of a number of fine new Irish string quartets building a strong reputation. This tour, in conjunction with Finding a Voice festival, marks International Women’s Day on March 8th and presents four outstanding works by women composers.
Elizabeth Maconchy was born in England in 1907 to Irish parents and was a prolific and successful composer through much of the twentieth century. The third of her thirteen quartets is among the most popular and was written with Europe on the cusp of yet another war; it is dramatic, yearning and very much according to her feeling that ‘the best music is an impassioned argument’.
Ailbhe McDonagh’s ‘Lore Quartet’ was commissioned by NSQF and first performed by the Ficino Quartet – with the composer as cellist – in December 2023. Its three short movements (Dolmen – Fairies – Púca) take us on a journey through some of Ireland’s most treasured myths and legends
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