Previous Concerts

October 2022

Evlana Tour: Ondine: Ravel and Beyond

Cork /// Triskel Arts Centre

Dublin /// Sundays at Noon, Hugh Lane Gallery

Castlebar /// Linenhall Arts Centre

Carrick-on-Shannon /// The Dock

Taking its inspiration from Ondine by Maurice Ravel, a landmark work for solo piano, Ondine: Ravel and Beyond, offered Irish audiences an opportunity to hear a rich palette of chamber works written in the years following the first performance of the composer’s tour de force in 1908, in addition to more recent works similarly inspired by composers Kaija Saariaho, Toru Takemitsu and Irish composer Siobhán Cleary.

  • Maurice Ravel - Ondine 

  • Claude Debussy - Syrinx 

  • Rebecca Clarke - The Seal Man 

  • George Walker - Sonata for violin and piano

  • Nina Rota - Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano

  • Takemitsu - Towards the Sea

  • Keike Abe - Wind In the Bamboo Grove

  • Kaija Saariaho - Changing Light

  • Siobhán Cleary - Ondine

June 2022

Enchantment - Evlana & Michael Harding

An evening of music and readings with Evlana and Michael Harding in King House, Boyle. Featuring composers with a Roscommon connection, such as Turlough O’Carolan and Percy French as well as performances of works with an enchanted theme, such as Ravel's "Enchanted Flute", Richard Strauss's "At Sunset' and "Elfentanz" by Florence Price.

Funded by Roscommon County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Local Live Performance Programming Scheme

April 2021

Evlana performed three concerts at New Music Dublin 2021. “Constellations 1, 2 & 3” highlighted Irish chamber work over the last 40 years.

Constellations: Concert 1

  • Judith Ring (b. 1976 ): Swelt Belly at Dawn (9’) 2013

  • Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970): Paddy (8’) 2003

  • Amanda Feery (b. 1984): Kissing the Ground (5’) 2015

  • John McLachlan (b. 1964): Headland (12’) 2021 World Premiere/New Music Dublin 2021 Commission

Constellations: Concert 2

  • Gráinne Mulvey (b. 1966): Sun of Orient Crimson with Excess of Light (11’) 2020

  • Elaine Agnew  (b. 1967): hhmmm… (5’) 2012

  • Linda Buckley (b. 1979):  Revelavit (10’) 2011

  • Ian Wilson (b. 1964): Cetiri Kamena  (4’) 2012

Constellations: Concert 3

  • Deirdre McKay (b. 1972): a quarter million miles from the moon (6’) 2016

  • Jane Deasy (b. 1989): Supple Music (5’) 2021 World Premiere

  • John Buckley (b. 1951): Constellations (10’) 2009

  • Raymond Deane (b. 1953): Tristia (11’) 1980

November 2018

National Gallery of Ireland 

Featuring music by Tailleferre, Lili Boulanger, Messiaen, Saariaho and Takemitsu and the Irish premiere of Siobhán Cleary’s Ondine.

Parts of this concert were broadcast on Lyric Fm’s Sound Out in Dec 2018.

September 2015

University Church Dublin

The concert featured several pieces which were performed in Ireland for the first time including; Kaija Saariaho’s Changing Light, Vivier’s Zipangu for string orchestra, Karin Rehnqvist’s Taromirs Tid. The concert also featured Benjamin Britten’s monumental setting of poet Rimbaud’s Les Illuminations and a world premiere Her Kind by Siobhán Cleary, a setting of the Anne Sexton poem.

This concert was broadcast on Lyric FM over 4 weeks in November in 2015.