Linda Buckley: Thar Farraige (Over Sea)
Linda Buckley connects threads of Irish and Scottish traditions and language, migration and the idea of home in her piece for pipes, strings and electronics.
Award-winning composer Linda Buckley’s Thar Farraige (Over Sea) combines contemporary chamber music with Irish and Scottish folk traditions.
Composed for small pipes, string quartet and electronics, this captivating piece is performed with Maxwell Quartet and Ailis Sutherland. It explores contemporary chamber music, embracing both Irish and Scottish traditional music and language, songs of love and loss, connections to place, migration and our idea of what ‘home’ means.
Thar Farraige (Over Sea) explores the potential meeting points and new pathways of contemporary classical and folk music. Says the composer of her work: ‘This project will weave together many strands of my musical self to create a cohesive whole, an immersive experience for the listener drawing upon themes of emigration/migration, and our sense of home and how that can be carried with us.’
Since its debut, Thar Farraige (Over Sea) has resonated with audiences around the world, including Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Northern Ireland’s Moving On Music, Norway’s Hemsing Festival, London’s Kings Place and September Me in the Netherlands.
This project was commissioned by Chamber Music Scotland and supported by PRS Foundation.
Part of New Music Biennial, this event includes two performances of the same work and a short interview with the creative team in between the two, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.
Performers
Ailis Sutherland Scottish smallpipes
Maxwell Quartet
Colin Scobie violin
George Smith violin
Elliott Perk viola
Duncan Strachan cello
Linda Buckley live electronics
Repertoire
Linda Buckley: Thar Farraige (Over sea)
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