Catríona Ryan (flute), Andreja Malir (harp), Finghin Collins (piano), NCH, Dublin Tonight 7.30pm 10-30 01-4170000. Also Rynhart Speakers NCH Kevin Barry Room, Dublin Tues 8.30pm 12 01-4170000
You can expect to hear a lot of pianist Finghin Collins in the coming months. He will be at Kilkenny Arts Festival (with baritone Maarten Koningsberger and in a performance of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy), and, of course, he’ll preside at the New Ross Piano Festival, where he is artistic director, in September.
Collins will also become more active with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in September, when he becomes the NSO’s first associate artist. Among the activities are chamber music programmes with NSO members, and concerts in which he directs Mozart concertos from the keyboard.
The pianist appears with the orchestra this week, in the German/Austrian segment of this summer's Musical Postcards series. He's playing the composer's rarely heard Introduction and Allegro Appassionatounder Anthony Hermus, in an evening that also includes Beethoven's First Symphony and Mozart's Concerto for flute and harp.
Sounds of an entirely different kind will be heard at the NCH on Tuesday, when the Irish Composers’ Collective presents a programme of new works on Rynhart Speakers. Composer Dylan Rynhart has developed a sound system that builds on the ideas behind the spinning effects of the Leslie speakers, which give the Hammond such a special sound.
The composers represented are Matthew Whiteside, Ian McDonnell, Francis Heery, Piaras Hoban, Adam McCartney, DE McCarthy, and, of course, Rynhart himself.
