‘String Ogham’ – Four Solo Double Bass Commissions
Premiering at Quiet Lights Festival 2019… ‘String Ogham’ – Four Solo Double Bass Commissions Caimin Gilmore performs new work for double bass by composers: Linda Buckley :: Seancheann Benedict Schlepper-Connolly :: Blackberry Sam Perkin :: <3 Nick Roth :: Arris 2pm, Saturday 23rd November 2019 As part of Quiet Lights Festival 2019 Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork City FREE ADMISSION www.quietlights.net In 2018/19, double bassist, songwriter, and arranger, Caimin Gilmore, commissioned Linda Buckley, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Sam Perkin and Nick Roth - four of Ireland’s most distinctive and vital young composers – to write four new Solo Double Bass pieces using funds from the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council Arts Office, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The pieces are being premiered at Quiet Lights Festival, Cork, on November 23rd and performed throughout the country over the coming months at Other Voices, Kilruddery House and Gardens, and Hugh Lane Concert Series. The commissions will be recorded and...
