Patrick Brennan: The Open Fund for Music Creators
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New Work for Piano and Percussion by Patrick Brennan
Irish composer Patrick Brennan’s music has been performed across the UK and Europe by the LSO, BCMG, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Zurich Chamber Singers, and Slovenian Philharmonic amongst others. He has been a featured composer at Lucerne Festival, IRCAM ManiFeste (Paris), and represented Ireland at ISCM ‘World Music Days’. He has received several awards, including the RPS Composition Prize, King’s College/CBSO Scholarship in Orchestral Composition, and an LSO/Panufnik commission. He studied with Julian Anderson, Hans Abrahamsen and Richard Causton, following undergraduate piano studies at the Royal College of Music.
Brennan’s new work is written for piano & percussion duo Siwan Rhys and George Barton and will be premiered at St John’s Smith Square in April 2018. The work will have a strong basis in Celtic design, deriving much of its material from a step pattern used as a device in the Book of Lindisfarne. It will be the first in a set of three pieces based on patterns taken from the books of Lindisfarne, Kells, and Durrow.
The reconciliation of Brennan’s dual identity as musical modernist and Irish artist is central to this project, which reflects extensive research into spectral music and Celtic art. Brennan and the duo hope to contribute to the repertory a new work which reconciles musical modernism (particularly the innovations of “Spectral” composers) with the ancient artistic folk traditions of Ireland and Britain.
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