2000 Colm O’Hara / David Lacey
2100 TRE: Francesco Turrisi / Nick Roth / Kate Ellis
2200 Shane Latimer
Supported by IMRO and Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
19:00 Izumi Kimura
“As a contemporary pianist, I am attracted to the things that live in the cracks between composed and improvised music. Between the abstract and the concrete, the variations of the forms Nature takes, our roles, cultures, languages, attitudes, things unknown, things in between, the invisible and inaudible, all these things are vibrations to which I try to listen through the act of playing the piano.”
20:00 Colm O’Hara / David Lacey
Colm O’Hara studied in the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag, and in Lucerne, Switzerland under Nils Wogram, graduating with a BA (First Class Honours) in Jazz Performance. He has since performed in numerous jazz festivals with such musicians as Kenny Wheeler and Michael Brecker and was a member of the European Youth Jazz Orchestra for their summer tour of Europe and China.
David Lacey is a musician from Dublin. He plays acoustic and amplified percussion / objects, drums and cassettes. He has longstanding playing collaborations with Rob Casey, Colm O’Hara, Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones, Fergus Kelly and Paul Vogel. He has had music released by Cathnor, Confront, Homefront, Mathka and Room Temperature.
21:00 TRE: Francesco Turrisi / Nick Roth / Kate Ellis
https://www.francescoturrisi.
Francesco Turrisi has been defined a “musical alchemist” and a “musical polyglot” by the press. He left his native Italy in 1997 to study jazz piano and early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he obtained a Bachelor and a Master’s degree. Since 2004 he has been collaborating with celebrated early music ensemble L’Arpeggiata. With l’Arpeggiata he has performed at the major early music festivals in Europe and around the world (Turkey, Russia, China) and has recorded for Virgin, Naive and Alpha. He regularly collaborates with Italian traditional singer Lucilla Galeazzi and with Irish ensembles Yurodny (balkan music/contemporary jazz), The Gregory Walkers (early music), Resound (contemporary music), eX ensemble (early music). He has released four critically acclaimed albums as a leader and two as co-leader (Tarab and Zahr) on Diatribe records and on his own label Taquin records. His latest album “Grigio” features Sean Nos singer Roisin El Safty, early music singer Clara Sanabras and percussion virtuoso Zohar Fresco. The album was described as “Lyrical, sensitively assembled and beautifully sung” by John Fordham in a review for The Guardian. His vast range of collaborations includes artists from jazz, world and early music such as Bobby McFerrin, Dave Liebman, Gianluigi Trovesi, Nils Landgren, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Barry Guy, Gabriele Mirabassi, Savina Yannatou, Maria Pia de Vito, Theodosii Spassov, Gavin Bryars, Bang on a Can, Misia, The King’s Singers, Veronique Gens, Philippe Jaroussky, Pepe el Habichuela, Lucilla Galeazzi, Bijan Chemirani.
Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer, producer and educator. His work explores the liberation of improvisation from composition, the poetic syntax of philosophical enquiry and the function of music as translative epistemology. Engaging in conversation with mathematical biologists, astrophysicists, ecologists and hydrologists, whilst simultaneously subsumed by an insatiable appetite for literature, his compositions interrogate the inherence of meaning in formal structure and the symbiotic resonance of words as sound and text. A curious predisposition and a steadfast refusal to accept the existence of boundaries between the real and the imaginary has led to collaborations with an array of international performers, composers, choreographers, directors, visual artists, festivals, poets and ensembles. In 2015 he was composer-in-residence at the California Academy of Sciences and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), and in 2017 at the European Space Agency (ESTEC) and the DLR LexIcon.
Kate Ellis is a versatile musician dedicated to the performance and exploration of all new music. She is cellist and Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s leading new music group, and a member of Francesco Turrissi’s Taquin experiments, Yurodny, Ergodos Musicians and the electro-folk group Fovea Hex. Kate has toured and broadcast in Australia, the USA, Europe and China, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Centre, the Canberra International Music Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon (NYC), Town Hall NYC, Shanghai EXPO, Istanbul Akbank Jazz Festival, soundSCAPE festival (Italy), Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Opera House, Barbican Centre, Kings Place (UK) and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Kate has collaborated with, commissioned, premiered and recorded works by numerous Irish and International composers including Steve Reich, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Nico Muhly and Donnacha Dennehy and continues to push musical boundaries performing with a diverse range of musicians including Martin Hayes, Bobby McFerrin, Iarla O Lionaird, Gavin Friday and Karan Casey to name but a few. From 2011-2014 Kate was musician in residence at the Cork Opera House and co-curated a festival marking the 75th birthday year of Steve Reich, who said of Kate’s playing ‘she has my unbounded admiration’. In August 2014 Kate released Jump – an album of specially commissioned works by Irish composers for solo cello and electronics. The album formed part of Diatribe Records’ Solo Series Phase II – a wide-lens portrait of Ireland’s new musical terrain.
22:00 Shane Latimer
Shane Latimer is a musician based in Dublin. He plays 6, seven and 8 string guitars, synthesizers and improvises with various preparations and electronic processing. Shane is an active musician in Dublin’s music scene writing for and performing with a variety of Irish and international groups most recently tech-improv scientists OKO, comedy-artband Bebop & Rocksteady, intergalctic free-jazz cult Outerspaceways Inc. and arch-minimalists 無我. Shane is also co-director of Bottlenote and STRING THEORY festival of avantgarde guitar.
