Improvised Musical Adventures
Date: Thursday 26 January
Time: 9:30am / 11:30am / 2pm | Duration: 90 min
Audience: Primary school groups (8-12 years) & Secondary school groups (all ages)
Price: Free, booking essential. To book for your class group, please contact Deirdre with your preferred time: deirdre.rogers@solsticeartscentre.ie
Join award-winning composer Brian Irvine in the gallery for a workshop packed with musical experimentation, exploration and creation. Surrounded by the installation 'If We Could See Ourselves As Other See Us', and immersed in its musical themes, Brian will inspire you to create your own outrageous and imaginative improvised ideas through music. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to perform your brand new song!
No previous musical experience necessary. However, children who are learning to play instruments are welcome to bring them along to this workshop.
Born in Belfast, Brian’s unique musical world combines the known and the unknown, the free and the fixed, the schooled and the unschooled. He is driven by a single desire to connect, disrupt, reinvent, and reimagine all aspects of life, people, society, art and understanding in any and as many ways possible. His music is a highly personal concoction of punk, improvisation and contemporary classical.
Nominated for five British Composer Awards (BASCA’s) and winner of two, Brian’s huge output includes operas, large-scale oratorios, orchestral, ensemble, chamber, solo and dance works as well as film scores and installations.
His music has been commissioned, broadcast, and performed all over the world by a vast array of performers and organisations including the London Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Red Note Ensemble, Ulster Orchestra, Joanna MacGregor, Fidelio Trio, and Irish National Opera…to name but a few.
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This event is part of the learning & engagement programme which accompanies 'If We Could See Ourselves As Others See Us', a Community Arts project commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre in partnership with Meta
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