Parish of St Bartholomew

On Saturday March 6th at 8pm David Bremner presents an evening of speculative music for pipe organ by 17th- and 21st-century composers at St Bartholomew's Church, Ballsbridge. All the works featured have the quality of immersing the listener in the music's contrapuntal machinery itself. The programme as a whole functions like a Baroque suite- all the pieces explore a single mood, but within the programme as a whole there are strong contrasts. Long periods of quiet, sustained and reflective music are interrupted by bursts of uncontrollable energy.

David Bremner is an organist, pianist, and composer based in Dublin. Originally from West Cumbria, UK, he moved to Ireland in 1999 following an Organ Scholarship at Keble College, Oxford. He has studied organ with David Sanger and Mark Duley, and piano with Mary Lennon, and has participated in masterclasses with Rolf Hind, Helen Yorke, and Ben van Oosten. He was Organ Scholar at both Christ Church Cathedral and St Patrick's Cathedral in 2002-2003. Since then he has been in demand as a recitalist and accompanist on organ and piano, and has performed with many of Dublin's leading ensembles, including the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTE Concert Orchestra, and Crash Ensemble. He also performs in an improvisation duo with Jonathan Nangle (live electronics) and a voice and piano duo with soprano Elizabeth Hilliard.

The programme features:

Sweelinck: Toccata (Aeolian)
Tom Johnson: selected Rational Melodies
Jean Titelouze: Veni Creator
Frescobaldi: Capriccio sopra La, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Ut
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly: Your Light Illuminates Everything (world premiere)
Donnacha Dennehy: Mad, Avid, Sad
Frescobaldi: Recercar ottavo, obligo di non uscir di grado
David Bremner: Gorse Hill (world premiere)
Jonathan Nangle: BACH est mort (world premiere)
Sweelinck: Toccata (Ionian)

David Bremner - organ
Saturday 6th March, 8 pm
St Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Ballsbridge
Tickets are 15 euro, 12 euro (conc.) and can be purchased at the door only.

For any further information: contact Elizabeth Hilliard at 086 069 1948