New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

Solo recital featuring a mix of early and modern flute repertoire. Programme TBC.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

Experience the world premiere of Performance Fingerprints, an immersive live event where music and visual art meet in spontaneous conversation.

Drop by The Crush at 3.15pm or 6.15pm for a free pop-up performance where visual artist Heidi Nguyen free-paints and draws in real time as musicians perform entirely from their imaginations. Each performance runs for approximately 30 minutes.

Then join us in our Upstairs Theatre for a ticketed, immersive experience. Musicians move among the seated audience, weaving the tones and textures of flutes, violin, viola, trombone, and percussion into a fully improvised soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen, visual artist Steve Meyfroidt shapes fluid, bio-digital worlds using custom-built software, responding symbiotically to the evolving music.

Nothing is pre-determined. Every performance is unique, and you, the audience, are an integral part of a shared creative process where multi-sensory art is shaped and experienced in the moment.

Experience the world premiere of Performance Fingerprints, an immersive live event where music and visual art meet in spontaneous conversation.

Drop by The Crush at 3.15pm or 6.15pm for a free pop-up performance where visual artist Heidi Nguyen free-paints and draws in real time as musicians perform entirely from their imaginations. Each performance runs for approximately 30 minutes.

Then join us in our Upstairs Theatre for a ticketed, immersive experience. Musicians move among the seated audience, weaving the tones and textures of flutes, violin, viola, trombone, and percussion into a fully improvised soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen, visual artist Steve Meyfroidt shapes fluid, bio-digital worlds using custom-built software, responding symbiotically to the evolving music.

Nothing is pre-determined. Every performance is unique, and you, the audience, are an integral part of a shared creative process where multi-sensory art is shaped and experienced in the moment.

"Lucid Dream" - for fixed media video (video by current.cam)
"We're in this together" tape and live audience smartphone interaction.
"Take your time… hurry-up!" for bass flute and electronics (performance by Emory faculty Lina Andonovska)

About the concert
Composer and sound artist Davor Vincze presents an evening of immersive electronic and audiovisual works that blur the boundaries between concert music, video art, and interactive technology. The program features Lucid Dream, an AI-generated visual and musical collaboration with the artist collective current.cam, originally created for the transdisciplinary work manteia (2024). This is followed by We’re in this together, a 4-channel electronic piece developed for NIME 2025, inviting the audience to participate via smartphones in shaping the sonic outcome. The concert concludes with Take Your Time… Hurry Up!, a bass flute and electronics work inspired by Vincze’s teenage obsession with Nirvana, performed by the acclaimed flutist Lina Andonovska. The piece offers a playful yet intricate exploration of extended techniques and hidden pop-cultural references.

Emily Threinen, conductor
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Yusri Muhamad, conductor
Eighth Blackbird, guest artists

Join us at our “Vitality” concert where the University Wind Ensemble presents a variety of repertoire in collaboration with guest artists Eighth Blackbird, faculty conductor Jerry Luckhardt, and doctoral candidate conductor Yusri Muhamad. Repertoire includes Bjork Guðmundsdóttir’s Overture from Dancer in the Dark, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Scherzo alla Marcia, Carlos Simon’s Sweet Chariot, Ida Gotkovsky’s Poeme Du Feu, and Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines.

This School of Music event is free & open to the public. A livestream will be available (click on the Ted Mann Concert Hall link in the right callout box). 

Lina Andonovska - flutes

Dario Calderone- double bass

Cathal Roche -saxophones

Alex Petcu- percussion

Justine Cooper -choreography/dancer

Necromancer is a bold new interdisciplinary performance work, created by six leading artists in music and movement. Conceived as a musical ‘exorcism’, the piece responds to a series of haunting photographs taken during the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura, who settled south of Dublin in the late 1960s. Blending composed and improvised music with physical performance, Necromancer channels a collective ritual of memory, witness and transformation.

Ian Wilson is one of Ireland’s most distinctive contemporary composers, whose emotionally resonant and structurally daring works explore life, loss, the limits of listening, and a borderless approach to musical language.

Dario Calderone is an acclaimed Italian double bassist known for his compelling solo performances, technical command, and visionary interpretations of the most demanding contemporary repertoire.

Lina Andonovska is a fearless Australian flautist whose genre-crossing virtuosity and deep commitment to new music have made her a leading voice on stages from the Sydney Opera House to experimental spaces across Europe and the USA.

Cathal Roche is a boundary-pushing Irish saxophonist and composer whose work fuses improvisation, electronics and text with an instinctive sensitivity to space and narrative.

Alex Petcu is a dynamic Irish percussionist whose expressive precision and adventurous programming have made him a key figure in Ireland’s contemporary music scene and a sought-after collaborator for new and experimental work.

Justine Cooper is a Dublin-based choreographer whose multidisciplinary practice draws on movement, sound and visual art to create atmospherically charged performance works with powerful emotional and political resonance.

Necromancer is a powerful new performance work exploring trauma, memory and transformation through music and movement — inspired by photographs from the Troubles by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura.

Six extraordinary artists. One collective exorcism.
#NecromancerProject #ContemporaryMusic #PerformanceArt #NewMusic #AkihikoOkamura

Heralded as a ‘supergroup within new music circles in Ireland’ by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Stone Drawn Circles inhabits a new space in Irish contemporary music. This performance offers a trip through various genres and forms of contemporary sound art, featuring works by Irish composers Úna Monaghan, Karen Power and Brian Irvine, as well as Australian and Canadian composers Cat Hope and Nicole Lizée.

'In Formation' and 'Landay Sequenza' were created with the financial assistance of a Commission Award, funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhaírle Ealaíon. Brian Irvine's 'A Call to Arms' was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre for Stone Drawn Circles with funds from PRS Foundation Beyond Borders. Stone Drawn Circles are supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. The Stone Drawn Circles: In Formation tour is project-managed by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, supported by PRS Foundation Beyond Borders funding.

Stone Drawn Circles take their programme ‘In Formation’ to Scotland’s Sound Festival.

Heralded as a “supergroup within new music circles in Ireland” by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Stone Drawn Circles inhabits a new space in Irish contemporary music. In their relatively short existence as a group, the ensemble’s debut performance season includes performances at prestigious festivals including HCMF, New Music Dublin and a PRS Beyond Borders tour of the UK.

Fearless interpreters of new music, ‘Stone Drawn Circles’ are newcomers to the burgeoning Irish contemporary music scene. The group brings together 6 trailblazing artists who hold exploratory music at the heart of their practice. Each member is fervently active in the performance and dissemination of new music. Artist-led, the ensemble features players from groups including Eighth Blackbird, stargaze, Crash Ensemble and Ergodos Musicians. Equally at ease with complexity as they are in graphic scoring and improvisation, Stone Drawn Circles are a collective of risk-takers and sonic explorers.

Programme

Úna Monaghan In Formation

Karen Power Can you hear me now???

Brian Irvine A Call to Arms

Cat Hope Landay Sequenza

Nicole Lizée Peril Earrings

All works are Scottish premieres

'In Formation' and 'Landay Sequenza' were created with the financial assistance of a Commission Award, funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Brian Irvine's 'A Call to Arms' was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre for Stone Drawn Circles with funds from PRS Foundation Beyond Borders.

Stone Drawn Circles are supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. The Stone Drawn Circles: In Formation tour is project-managed by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, supported by PRS Foundation Beyond Borders funding.

Necromancer by Ian Wilson

Lina Andonovska - flutes

Dario Calderone- double bass

Cathal Roche -saxophones

Alex Petcu- percussion

Justine Cooper -choreography/dancer

Necromancer is a bold new interdisciplinary performance work, created by six leading artists in music and movement. Conceived as a musical ‘exorcism’, the piece responds to a series of haunting photographs taken during the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura, who settled south of Dublin in the late 1960s. Blending composed and improvised music with physical performance, Necromancer channels a collective ritual of memory, witness and transformation.

Ian Wilson is one of Ireland’s most distinctive contemporary composers, whose emotionally resonant and structurally daring works explore life, loss, the limits of listening, and a borderless approach to musical language.

Dario Calderone is an acclaimed Italian double bassist known for his compelling solo performances, technical command, and visionary interpretations of the most demanding contemporary repertoire.

Lina Andonovska is a fearless Australian flautist whose genre-crossing virtuosity and deep commitment to new music have made her a leading voice on stages from the Sydney Opera House to experimental spaces across Europe and the USA.

Cathal Roche is a boundary-pushing Irish saxophonist and composer whose work fuses improvisation, electronics and text with an instinctive sensitivity to space and narrative.

Alex Petcu is a dynamic Irish percussionist whose expressive precision and adventurous programming have made him a key figure in Ireland’s contemporary music scene and a sought-after collaborator for new and experimental work.

Justine Cooper is a Dublin-based choreographer whose multidisciplinary practice draws on movement, sound and visual art to create atmospherically charged performance works with powerful emotional and political resonance.

Necromancer is a powerful new performance work exploring trauma, memory and transformation through music and movement — inspired by photographs from the Troubles by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura.

Six extraordinary artists. One collective exorcism.
#NecromancerProject #ContemporaryMusic #PerformanceArt #NewMusic #AkihikoOkamura

*please be advised that there are stairs up to this venue and limited disabled access please contact the organiser if you require wheelchair access.

Eighth Blackbird perform Viet Cuong’s ‘Vital Sines’ Concerto with Des Moines Symphony Orchestra for their Season Debut Concert.

Shostakovich’s shining Festive Overture, filled with triumphant brass fanfares and woodwind virtuosity, opens the season. Eighth Blackbird, America’s groundbreaking sextet, explores the rhythmic vitality and color of Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines. Tchaikovsky’s lush and expressive Symphony No. 5, with its unforgettable “fate” motif, brings the Season Debut to a triumphant close.

Eighth Blackbird perform Viet Cuong’s ‘Vital Sines’ Concerto with Des Moines Symphony Orchestra for their Season Debut Concert.

Shostakovich’s shining Festive Overture, filled with triumphant brass fanfares and woodwind virtuosity, opens the season. Eighth Blackbird, America’s groundbreaking sextet, explores the rhythmic vitality and color of Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines. Tchaikovsky’s lush and expressive Symphony No. 5, with its unforgettable “fate” motif, brings the Season Debut to a triumphant close.

Experience the four-time GRAMMY Award®-winning sextet that redefines chamber music through bold innovation and theatrical flair. With a legacy of groundbreaking premieres and a passion for living composers, Eighth Blackbird brings a dynamic performance to the Artist Series you won’t want to miss.

Dana Sipos coaxes silkworms out of their cocoons and spins them into song. She inhabited the far north before going nomad and her captivatingly nuanced songs are filled with a wild wind and a haunting surrealism. She now resides among the old growth of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

A consummate performer, Sipos has brought her unique brand of cosmic “moon-folk to living rooms, concert halls and festivals stages across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She has received acclaim from CBC, The Bluegrass Situation, Penguin Eggs, Folk Roots Radio (UK) and No Depression.

She is joined by cellist Justin Wright and flautist Lina Andonovska for shows on her UK tour.