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.