As part of this year’s Castletown Concerts Festival, which is held in honour of Krzysztof Penderecki’s first visit to Ireland, Peter Moran will be working with local primary school children from Scoil Bhride Naofa in Kildare Town as they devise their own compositions in response to Penderecki’s work.
In the week leading up to the concerts, the students will be introduced to contemporary music and to Penderecki’s work in particular. They will be guided to develop their own compositional ideas, working at first with their voices and everyday objects and percussion instruments. The students will also have the very special opportunity to work with members of Camerata Ireland. As they learn of the variety of sounds and textures that the instruments are capable of, the children will then develop their very own instrumental compositions.
Finally, the students will perform their compositions in public, alongside members of the ensemble, on the morning of Sunday, 12 September 2010 preceding that afternoon’s performance of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima conducted by Penderecki himself.
The Castletown Concerts will run from 10-12 September in Castletown House, Co. Kildare.
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