Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

[MUSIC]
Thursday 29th March
8.00pm, the Great Hall, Magee campus
Joanna MacGregor (piano) and
Andy Sheppard (saxophones)
This not to be missed concert will feature music from Deep River, MacGregor’s first new recording in
four years and her first duo recording with her long-time collaborator Andy Sheppard. The concert
will highlight the exhilarating talent of both performers and the innate sense of partnership that has
developed from years of working together.
Inspired by her many trips to the American Deep South, the music of Deep River has deeply personal
connotations, going right back to Joanna’s childhood and a father who was a lay preacher in an
Evangelical church. The audience will be taken on a journey through a wealth of repertoire; from the
much covered traditional ‘Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child’, through early twentieth century
songs by husband and wife duo William and Versey Smith, to original interpretations of contemporary
songs by Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
Deep River offers further proof of MacGregor’s
effortless ability to move freely between music
of different traditions and positions her as an artist
truly at the forefront of contemporary music.
Admission: £10/conc. £7/students £5
Information/Bookings: Cultural Development
Office at the Magee campus on
(028) 7137 5456
[MUSIC]
Tuesday 17th April
8.00pm, the Octagon, Coleraine campus
The Fidelio Trio
The Fidelio Trio - Darragh
Morgan (violin), Robin
Michael (cello) and Mary
Dullea (piano) - has
appeared throughout
Europe, South Africa
and Asia and frequently
broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. Equally at home
playing the standard piano repertoire as well
as new music, they frequently commission
works from the most exciting composers of
our time and will be recording a CD this year
of trios by Kevin Volans, Deirdre Gribbin,
Ed Bennett and Donnacha Dennehy. The
programme opens with Mozart’s wonderfully
mature Trio in B flat major, followed by bulb, a
a Fidelio Trio commission by Dublin composer,
Donnacha Dennehy. The centrepiece of the
programme is Ravel's towering Piano Trio in
A Minor. The concert concludes with a work
from the trio’s ‘pop archive’ initiative – works
by contemporary composers based on the
most inspiring pop classics of our time. In this
case it is Led Zeppelin’s thrashing ’Kashmir,’
as interpreted by Northern Irish composer/
guitarist, Bill Campbell.
Admission: £6/conc. £4/students £3
Information/Bookings: Cultural Development
Office at the Coleraine campus on
(028) 7032 4449 or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
Cutural Events SPRING 2007