Major premiere for Trinity Laban composer
Fri 23 February 2018The Binding of the Years, composed by Deirdre Gribbin, was programmed as part of RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s 70th Anniversary celebrations.
The Irish composer and Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban has been described by The Times as ‘one of the most original thinkers to emerge in recent years’. For the orchestra’s celebratory concert Gribbin’s was commissioned to write a new middle movement for her concerto The Binding of the Years, a work originally premiered in 2013 by renowned Irish pianist Finghin Collins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Collins joined the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Gerhard Markson, to perform the revised work at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on 16 February. The concerto was programmed alongside selections from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet.
You can watch the full concert on the RTÉ website. The Binding of the Years features in the programme from 41’30”.
To find out more about the composer, visit Deirdre Gribbin’s visit page.
For more information about studying at Trinity Laban, visit our music pages.
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