New Horizons Music
New Horizons Music (est. 2017) is a company which exists to commission new works, and to promote existing works by Northern Irish composers, for performance within Northern Ireland.
The company’s directors are Diego Fasciati and Ian Wilson, both of whom have extensive experience of working within the classical and contemporary music fields in Ireland (North and South) and abroad.
Saturday 18th May 2024
Further information and tickets available from Accidental Theatre
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"Towards a New Symphonic Tradition" project part II
NHM, with funds from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in 2021 commissioned two new works from young Northern Irish composers Amy Rooney ("Flow State") and Eduard Zatriqi ("Pierrot's Splendiferous Symphonic Dances"). These were performed by the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble in the Harty Room of Queens University, Belfast on Friday 20th May 2022. The composers' brief was to create a "symphonic" chamber work, interpreting that directive how they wish but keeping in mind NHM's commitment to exploring the notion of what can be "symphonic" in our time.
See: Eduard Zatriqi Pierrots Splendiferous Symphonic Dances and Amy Rooney Flow State
"Escape" project
NHM, with funds from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in 2021 commissioned a new collaboration between composers Stephen Gardner and Bill Campbell and video artist Eleni Kolliopoulou. The resulting audio-visual work is a wide-ranging and ultimately uplifting artistic response to the emotional turmoil engendered by the Covid pandemic.
Lasting a total of 21 minutes, the work can be viewed YouTube:
"Towards a New Symphonic Tradition" project
In 2019 NHM, with funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, commissioned a new symphonic work from acclaimed Northern Ireland-based composer Piers Hellawell. "Symphony in Chains" was premiered at a BBC Invitation Concert in the Ulster Hall, Belfast on January 8th 2020 by the Ulster Orchestra under David Brophy and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 2020.
"Symphony in Chains" is the first in a planned series of commissions seeking to encourage composers to look afresh at the idea of what makes a symphony and to respond in a 21st-century manner, whatever that means.
Piers Hellawell Symphonies in Chains
"Belfast Confetti" project
In 2018 NHM, with funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland,
commissioned song cycles from Elaine Agnew and Greg Caffrey,
consisting of settings of poems by Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson,
who celebrated his 70th birthday that year. Elaine's and Greg's song
cycles were premiered by mezzo-soprano Dawn Burns and baritone Cormac
Lawlor respectively during the 2018 First Presbyterian Church Rosemary
Street Summer Recital Series, with the poet present.
Belfast Confetti Greg Caffreys Song Cycle on Poems by the Belfast Poet Ciaran Carson
Email: info@newhorizonsmusic.net