UTAH CHAMBER ARTISTS
& Artistic Director Barlow Bradford
present
Poetry & Music
World Premiere of Tarik O'Regan's After Rain
and American Premiere of Raï
Salt Lake City - Utah Chamber Artists and Barlow Bradford are
proud to polish off their 2012-2012 season on Monday April 30th with
a world premiere by British composer Tarik
O'Regan entitled"After Rain".
The concert, entitled "Poetry & Music", focuses on the music of O'Regan,
whose piece is set to the poetry of World War I poet Edward Thomas, and on three
selections called "Night Pieces" by J.A.C. Redford with text by William
Wordsworth. Both works are written for choir and orchestra. The concert begins
at 7:30 PM at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus.
Also on the program is the
American premiere of another O?Regan piece called "Raï" (rye). The work is for string quartet, flute, clarinet, harp
and percussion. As the composer explains, "[Raï] seeks to highlight the
symbiotic nature of Arab dance music today with its influence upon and
absorption of non-Arab culture."
Other program selections
include The West Wind with music by Robert Cundick and words by poet John
Masefield and When Daisies Pied by John Rutter set to the verse of
Shakespeare. The choir will conclude the evening with April in Paris, an
arrangement by local favorite Bernell Hales.
Tarik O'Regan's
composition's full title is After Rain (Petrichor) and was commissioned by
Utah Chamber Artists. The 34-year-old
composer is traveling to Salt Lake City for the premiere. The 12-minute work is
made possible by financial support from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (at Brigham Young University); the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award presented by Chorus
America and funded by the American Composers Forum. Mr. O'Regan's compositions number over 90. He is the recipient of various prestigious
awards. Some of his most recent compositions include "Latent Manifest"
premiered at the BBC Proms last year and the critically acclaimed opera "Heart
of Darkness." (bio below)
Mr. O'Regan
will also give a lecture at 6:00 PM before the concert sponsored by Utah
Chamber Artists and The Salty Cricket Composers Collective. The public is
invited.
Concert Tickets: Adults $15
Students $10 (the first 20 students with
ID to purchase tickets at the Kingtix box office will receive a $5.00 discount
Ticket prices go up on April
24th.
Pre-concert lecture is free
Tarik O'Regan
Born in London in 1978, Tarik O'Regan was educated at the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
His work has garnered two Grammy® nominations (including Best Classical Album)
and two British Composer Awards.
2012 sees the opening of a
new ballet, set to his orchestral music, by the Dutch National Ballet and a
commission from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which will be premiered and
toured late in the year.
2011 marked the premiere Heart
of Darkness, O'Regan's opera based on Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and
the release of Acallam Na Senórach¸ his third album on the Harmonia Mundi
label.
He has held the Fulbright
Chester Schirmer Fellowship at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard.
Other appointments in recent years include positions at Trinity and Corpus
Christi Colleges in Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
and Yale University.
www.tarikoregan.com/
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