SEASON 26/27

Hard Rain cellist David McCann crosses centuries, featuring Bach’s Suite No.1 for solo cello in G major alongside a selection of his original compositions, composed over the last decade.

Aisling Agnew (flute) and Alex Petcu (percussion) present a free concert of contemporary music featuring music by Frederic Devreese, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Alice Gomez, Jane O'Leary and Gareth Farr.

Silence and Sound Waves marks the 80th Birthday of one of the most significant composers on this island, Jane O’Leary. Going beyond borders to explore heritage and language, this concert reflects on multi-culturalism and cross-artform connections. Featuring some of Jane’s most atmospheric compositions for Hard Rain, this includes her most recent commission by Access Contemporary Music for their PBS programme Songs about Buildings and Moods. Joining us from ACM in Chicago is Seth Boustead, presented alongside highly talented local composers Elaine Agnew, Anselm McDonnell, Anderinna Gooch and Omar Zatriqi.

With special guests Malachy Frame and Sarah Richmond. This programme is a reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature, drawing on poetry and text. It challenges the idea that humanity has constructed itself as separate from, and superior to, nature. This also considers parallels within our society in how throughout history, patriarchal culture has similarly constructed women as subordinate and acquiescent. PROGRAMME Birding by Ear (2019) - Perry Goldstein / Poetry by Richard Powers *Irish premiere Song of the Birds (1998) - Sally Beamish / From Catalan Folksong Songs from Revered Scorned Women (2025) - Áine Mallon / Text by Emily DeDakis *World premiere Relativity and Revelation (2015) - Sarah Lianne Lewis / Poetry by J.L.Williams Buaneitilt (2022) - Jane O’Leary / Poetry by Emily Dickinson Death of a Naturalist (2020/22) - Greg Caffrey / Poetry by Seamus Heaney