Events

Dystopia for solo flute will have another outing on Sunday 22nd February at the Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, as part of ‘The Four Seasons Chamber Music Series: Uisce agus Oighear’, curated by Cellist Aoife Burke. Flautist Fiona Kelly will perform the piece alongside works by Debussy, Dowland and others. Also performing are Cian Ó Dúill, viola and Jean Kelly, harp. More information about the concert is available here.

Solfa’s new piece, Lasair na Saoirse (The Flame of Freedom) was premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on the 20th of January in the National Concert Hall Ireland, as part of ‘Composer Lab’, a development initiative by Contemporary Music Centre, NSOI and RTE Lyric FM. The concert was broadcast live and can be heard here.

“Diatribe” for solo piano, composed in 2010, will be performed in Berlin on 17th May as part of ’24 Stunden Komponistinnen Piano Marathon Vol. 2 A Room Full of Voices’, presented by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler, Nina Guo and Mareike Hein. More information is available here.

Selected pieces from the Orgelbuchlein Project received another performance last Monday, 14th October, in Christ Church Spitalfields. These included ‘Gott hat das Evangelium’, along with pieces by Jacques Pichard, Joris Verdin, Benoît Mernier and baritone Roderick Williams, whom Solfa previously interviewed for The Oxford Musician in 2015. Organist Tom Bell continues to perform works from the project in various concerts, championing new work and furthering the contemporary organ repertoire.

On Monday 19th August, ‘Gott hat das Evangelium’ received another performance by organist Tom Bell, at St Mary’s Church, Titchmarsh, London. The organ recital included 3 pieces from the Bach Orgelbuchlein Project, alongside works by Bridge, Vaughan Williams and others.

Dystopia for solo flute will receive another performance at the Kleiner Ehrbarsaal in Vienna, Austria, on the 22nd of April in a concert entitled ‘SETTING THE TONE: MNÁ NA HÉÍREANN‘ featuring flautist Miriam Kaczor and pianist Elaine Loebenstein. Kaczor previously performed Dystopia during lockdown in 2020, as part of a series for the Contemporary Music Centre, and continues to include it in her performance repertoire.

Solfa’s solo organ piece, ‘Gott hat das Evangelium‘, commissioned in 2018 as part of the International Orgelbüchlein composition project, will have another performance at the Main Church of St. Catherine in Hamburg on 18th June. It will be performed by organist Rainer Thomsen as part of the JS Bach marathon, along with other new pieces previously commissioned over the course of the project. More information is available here.

Solfa’s new work Storybook Land, commissioned by Music Network in 2022, will receive its premiere performance on Thursday 13th April at St Barrahane’s Church, Castletownshend, Cork. The piece will receive subsequent performances as part of an April tour by musicians Conor Linehan, Niall O’Sullivan and Claudia Boyle. As part of the concert on 13th April, Solfa will present a brief ‘composer insight’ session explaining a little about the compositional process and the inspiration behind the work. Details regarding the concert are available here.

Solfa’s piece ‘Dystopia’ will feature at the New Music Festival in Dublin, as part of a programme by contemporary music group Evlana. Also featured in the concert are new works by contemporary Irish composers, including the premiere of Jenn Kirby’s ‘Surrounding’ for flutes and electronics.

A new piece by Solfa Carlile is to be commissioned for an April 2023 concert series by Music Network with funds provided by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Music Network is Ireland’s national music touring and development organisation. It was founded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon in 1986, and has as its patron President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.

The piece will receive its premiere in April 2023 by soprano Claudia Boyle, Niall O’Sullivan on trumpet and pianist Brian Connor.