Name: Interior Scenes
Start: 2025-12-12T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-12T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC)

A meaningful programme, showcasing highly accomplished works for ensemble, marking the 90th birthday of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt
About this Event

Interior Scenes is a meaningful programme, showcasing highly accomplished works for ensemble, while exploring current connections for Hard Rain. We mark the 90th birthday of celebrated Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and perform his iconic reflective work Speigel im Speigel. We feature collaborations with Irish composers well-known to us, and recent international connections we have made.

A connection borne out of our 2025 UK/Poland project with British Council, and having worked with Lena Michajłów at AzTak Festival, we are delighted to bring her unique musical language to Belfast. We give the Irish premiere of works by Peter Fahey, Lecturer in Composition at Queen’s University and Richard Causton, Professor of Composition at the University of Cambridge. We also feature a world premiere of The Lake composed for us by Helgi Ingvarsson, whose music is “full of emotion and mesmerising”.

John McLachlan’s Aurora “is an exploration of collage techniques in music” referring to both dawn and the aurora borealis while Counterweight by Aílís Ní Ríain for contrabass clarinet challenges the impacts of exclusion, inequality and discrimination on an individual.

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PROGRAMME

Richard Causton - Phoenix (flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano)

Peter Fahey - Interior Scenes (clarinet, viola, piano)

Helgi Ingvarsson - The Lake (flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano)

Lena Michajłów - What am I actually scared of (flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, electric organ, electronics)

Aílís Ní Ríain - Counterweight (contrabass clarinet, fixed media)

John McLachlan - Aurora (flute, clarinet, violoncello, piano, fixed media)

Arvo Pärt - Speigel im Speigel (alto flute, piano)

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TICKETS

£12.50/£7.50 (Free for QUB staff & students)

Donations gratefully received.

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OUR FUNDERS

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen's University Belfast.