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Ink Still Wet commission scheme

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We are delighted to announce the recipients of our ‘Ink Still Wet’ commissioning scheme for our 2024/25 season. This scheme is supported by PRS Foundation as part of our Talent development network programme and offers paid commissions to early-career composers which will be performed by Hard Rain in our Ink Still Wet concert this season.

Congratulations to this season’s commissioned composers Anselm McDonnell, Omar Zatriqi, Bianca Gannon, Fionnuala Fagan-Thiébot and Sam Chambers.

A Legal Disclaimer

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Terms & Conditions - The Basics

Having said that, Terms and Conditions (“T&C”) are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. The T&C set forth the legal boundaries governing the activities of the website visitors, or your customers, while they visit or engage with this website. The T&C are meant to establish the legal relationship between the site visitors and you as the website owner. 
 
T&C should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website offering products to customers in e-commerce transactions requires T&C that are different from the T&C of a website only providing information (like a blog, a landing page, and so on).     
 
T&C provide you as the website owner the ability to protect yourself from potential legal exposure, but this may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so make sure to receive local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal exposure.

What to Include in the T&C Document

Generally speaking, T&C often address these types of issues: Who is allowed to use the website; the possible payment methods; a declaration that the website owner may change his or her offering in the future; the types of warranties the website owner gives his or her customers; a reference to issues of intellectual property or copyrights, where relevant; the website owner’s right to suspend or cancel a member’s account; and much, much more. 
 
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Anselm McDonnell

Anselm will write a piece for the full ensemble. Anselm McDonnell (b. 1994) is an Irish/Welsh composer who has composed over ninety pieces for orchestra, chamber groups, choirs, soloists, and electronics. His music has been performed in fourteen countries and includes commissions by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, Hard Rain SolositEnsemble, the BBC Singers, BBC Radio 3, British Council, and NCH Dublin. His music features on fifteen CDs, including three self-released albums, the third, Politics of the Imagination, an upcoming CD with the LSO, Crash Ensemble, and a trio of rap artists from Birmingham. He is one of 25 composers commissioned for BBC Radio 3’s quarter-century celebration in 2025, a broadcast series leading up to BBC Proms 2025. In 2023 he had portrait concerts dedicated to his music in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand, by the TACETi Ensemble. His music has been played at NCH Dublin, LSO St. Luke’s (6 performances), Wigmore Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Hugh Lane Gallery (4 performances), and New Music Dublin Festival (10 performances). He is a Jerwood+ resident composer with the LSO for 23/24 and has held residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (Oct/Nov 23) and Belfast City Council (2021-2022). His recent interview with the BBC Music Magazine features in their March 2024 issue. His compositions have been described as 'abrasive and compelling' (Irish Times), 'bright as fluorescent light’ (Journal of Music), ‘a wide musical imagination with a vision to match’ (Morning Star), and 'perhaps the contrasts and complexities that it contains are a musical reflection of the multi-layered nature of what it means to be a composer in a community as complex as Northern Ireland.' (Robert Hugill) www.anselmguitar.co.uk

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Omar Zatriqi

Omar will write a piece for the full ensemble. Omar Zatriqi (b. 1987) is a composer from Bangor, County Down. He studied composition under Prof. Piers Hellawell and Dr. Simon Mawhinney at Queen's University Belfast, achieving a BMus (with First Class Honours), MA, and PhD. In January 2012, Omar received invaluable guidance from the former Master of the King's Music Judith Weir when composing Science, a chamber opera written for a predominantly juvenile audience. The work premiered at the Belfast Children's Festival in March 2012 and subsequently won a Director's Choice Award as part of Boston Metro Opera's 2013 International Composers' Competition. In March 2018, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble awarded Omar's instrumental quintet Fata Morgana first prize at the third annual Peter Rosser Composition Competition. The following month, Key Chain was one of four winning string quartets selected by composer Deirdre Gribbin for West Cork Music's 2018 Composition Competition; its premiere was given by the Halcyon Quartet in Bantry later that summer. In response to their 2020 international call for scores, HRSE chose his instrumental sextet The Scrying to feature at the Sonorities Music Festival in QUB. During the summer of 2021, Omar proposed the creation of a piece in which the similarities and differences between two vastly distant folk idioms could be explored; HRSE facilitated the realisation of this ambition by awarding him a commission with funds from the PRS Foundation. In addition to reflecting Omar's own Albanian/Scottish heritage, the resultant string duo Blood Dances functions as a broader commentary on the fundamental benefits of societal integration and multiculturalism.

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Bianca Gannon

Bianca will write a piece for solo piano and electronics. Contemporary Music Centre Associate Composer Bianca Gannon performs piano and percussion at the same time, inspired by her decade-long exchange with Indonesia. Her compositions are often interdisciplinary, immersive and full of symbolism and social commentary. As an antidote, her improvisations are an unfiltered and spontaneous expression in real time. In revealing parallels between seemingly disparate elements, Bianca is inspired by that which connects us. Bandleader and solo performances include with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Myer Music Bowl, with International Contemporary Ensemble at the Banff Centre, and at PLG Arts Festival New York, Birmingham's Eastside Jazz Club, Sydney's Brett Whiteley Gallery, at the Melbourne Recital Centre and at Manchester Jazz Festival and EFG London Jazz Festival. 2020 Artist in Residence with the City of Greater Dandenong, Bianca's composition awards include the BAN BAM Award, Pythia Prize, Percy Grainger Award, King House Piano Commission Award and the Arts Council Music Bursary Award. Garnering a 4 star review in the Sydney Morning Herald, her debut album was also selected by Rhythms Magazine as 'Best Instrumental Album 2020'. * * * * - The Age, on MSO-commission Utter Stutter Flutter * * * * - Sydney Morning Herald, on with // without “Mind-blowing” - ABC Classic FM “lived up to the evening’s luminary thread... A beautifully crafted and relevant work... its relevance possesses a need for dissemination into the canon."  - ClassikOn www.biancagannon.com

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Fionnuala Fagan-Thiébot

Fionnuala will write a piece for solo flute and electronics. Fionnuala Fagan-Thiébot is a Belfast-based songwriter, sound designer and early career composer, with extensive experience in education, community music and reminiscence facilitation. She has produced and created a variety of critically-acclaimed interdisciplinary song-writing projects - Homebird, Stories of the City: Sailortown, Dreaming Protected Me, LoveNotes, and Station Flight - that document local oral histories through her artistic methodology, which draws on the field of verbatim theatre, and intertwines verbatim song-writing, sound-design, installation and live performance. She was Artist-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, in 2014, and was awarded a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, in 2015. Fionnuala’s academic research has been published in the Oral History Journal and four of her studio-recorded verbatim song albums are archived in The British Library, London. Fionnuala was sound designer on c21’s Deaf inclusive theatre project, Expecting, which toured Northern Ireland and Edinburgh Festival in 2023 and Washington DC in 2024. In April 2024, Fionnuala was a recipient of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Music Bursary, and in July 2024, she achieved a place on the highly competitive NI Film Scoring School, a partnership between Dumbworld, Ulster University and Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble (HRSE). During this training, Fionnuala composed her first scored work for live ensemble, which was performed and recorded by HRSE. This experience has compelled her to pursue further opportunities that explore the creation of scored works for live musicians.

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Sam Chambers

Sam will write a piece for solo violin. Sam began studying piano with Francis King at age thirteen and later studied organ with Philip Stopford at Belfast Cathedral. Most of his early musical training was based around the German classical traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was not until he started undergraduate music study at Queen’s University Belfast that he became acquainted with more modern and contemporary music. This is also when he began composing music seriously, but at the time his main concern was with musicology, and so went on to complete a master’s in musicology at the University of Oxford. It was during that time, however, that composing emerged as his dominant area of interest. Sam is currently working on a PhD in composition at Queen’s University Belfast.

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