Ora Quartet in Clonmel

Ora Quartet in Clonmel

Friday, 7 March 2025, 7.30pm
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Ora Quartet

Siún Milne, violin
Molly O’Shea, violin
Ali Comerford, viola
Yseult Cooper-Stockdale, cello

Elizabeth Maconchy - Quartet No.3 [1938]
Caroline Shaw - Blueprint [2016]
Ailbhe McDonagh - Lore Quartet [2023]
Florence Price - Quartet in A minor [1935]

The Ora Quartet is one of a number of fine new Irish string quartets building a strong reputation. This tour, in conjunction with Finding a Voice festival, marks International Women’s Day on March 8th and presents four outstanding works by women composers.

Elizabeth Maconchy was born in England in 1907 to Irish parents and was a prolific and successful composer through much of the twentieth century. The third of her thirteen quartets is among the most popular and was written with Europe on the cusp of yet another war; it is dramatic, yearning and very much according to her feeling that ‘the best music is an impassioned argument’.

Grammy award-winning composer Caroline Shaw wrote ‘Blueprint’ in 2016. It is hypnotically beautiful, full of inventive conversation and bearing many traces - especially the comically brilliant ending - of the quartet which was its blueprint, Beethoven’s B flat major quartet Op.18/6 La Malinconia

Ailbhe McDonagh’s ‘Lore Quartet’ was commissioned by NSQF and first performed by the Ficino Quartet - with the composer as cellist - in December 2023. Its three short movements (Dolmen - Fairies - Púca) take us on a journey through some of Ireland’s most treasured myths and legends

Florence Price’s music has been re-discovered in the last ten years or so and it is a treasure trove of over 300 compositions. Her gorgeous A minor quartet will surely become a regular feature of string quartet programmes in the coming years.

Part of a tour supported by the Arts Council and RTE Lyric FM. In association wuth Finding a Voice Festival.

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