Wednesday 11th October 2023
19:30 - 21:30
St Marylebone Church, NW1 5LT
Laura Aherne Soprano
Conor Campbell Baritone
Georgina Cassidy Piano
Frasier Hickland Piano
Selected Songs by Ina Boyle will be performed by Emerging Irish Artists, alongside songs by Rhoda Coghill and Elizabeth Maconchy, contemporaries of Ina who have been programmed as part of our mission to not only promote the music of Ina Boyle, but also women composers of her generation.
Irish Broadcaster and Community Music advocate, Evelyn Grant, shares a wonderful insight from Singer and Song Writer, Chris de Burgh about living in Bushy Park, once home to Ina Boyle, her life and music as well as featuring A Soft Day [00:14:25], Psalm for Cello and Orchestra [00:59:15] and Wild Geese [01:12:55].
Irish Heritage will be hosting their annual summer concert on July 6th at 19.30 in Leighton House in the Kensington area of London, and one of their bursary winners (Laura Aherne, winner of the Irish Heritage Brackaville Bursary for Vocal Studies, current Masters student at the Royal College of Music) will be performing Ina Boyle’s song The Stolen Child, which will feature in her songbook to be released in October this year in an event in collaboration with Irish Heritage. This will be the first live performance of this particular song.
Event details can be found here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/irishheritage/892744?
On April 26th, Irish Heritage held their annual spring concert at the Royal Overseas League in London. In the concert was programmed Ina Boyle’s Elegy, especially arranged for viola and piano. Jamie Howe who studies at the Royal Academy of Music was the violist, and he was accompanied by Luke Lally Maguire on piano, who is currently studying at Guildhall. Jamie was this year’s joint winner of the Irish Heritage Homan Potterton Bursary for Strings, and Luke was the overall winner of the main music bursary.
On Sunday 28th of May at 5pm in the Church of the Good Shepherd in Churchtown, the Dublin Orchestral Players will be performing their summer concert, and we are thrilled that in the programme will be Ina Boyle’s Overture.
We are delighted that Irish Heritage will host the London launch of the first Ina Boyle songbook, with a selection of songs to be performed by young Irish artists studying in the UK. Date, venue and performance details to be announced over the coming weeks.
The recent release of the Piatti Quartet’s CD was reviewed by Geoff Brown in the Chamber Reviews section of the BBC Music magazine, May 2023.
‘From Ireland itself comes the slightly reticent but gripping String Quartet of 1934 by the gifted and newly discovered Ina Boyle’.
‘The Piatti Quartet bring to this repertoire a passion, symphathy and a carefully balanced ensemble sense guaranteed to make each of the composers shine.’
‘Boyle’s String Quartet in its premiere recording fascinates the most, with its mix of lean textures, carefully wrought argument and moments of lyrical magic from a soaring violin flying high over fluttering notes below’.
“The Joy of Earth” has been released by the Halle Orchestra on the album “Shropshire Lad - English songs orchestrated and performed by Roderick Williams,” conducted by Sir Mark Elder. It is now available at Amazon.
The Piatti Quartet have released a new recording of Ina Boyle’s String Quartet on the Rubicon label, along with other works by Vaughan Williams, Moeran, and Ireland.
Available at:
Presto Music
Apple Music
Amazon
The Carice Singers gave a performance as part of the Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Celebrations at the Wigmore Hall on 12 October, 2022.
The IBSL is delighted to announce that the Society for Music in Ireland Council has awarded the Irish Research Council Harrison Medal 2022 to Dr Ita Beausang, a patron of the IBSL, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to contextual studies of music in Ireland, from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
London chamber choir Londinium, which under its Musical Director Andrew Griffiths has established a particular reputation for adventurous programming of 20th- and 21st-century British a cappella repertoire, toured to The Netherlands for the first time in August 2022 with concerts in Amsterdam and Leiden of British choral music celebrating the uplifting power of song.
Simon Heffer has written an important article on the history and visibility of female composers, with a particular focus on Ina Boyle. Simon Heffer also gives his own extremely complimentary insights into Ina’s music, complimenting her orchestral writing on The Magic Harp (1919) and Colin Clout (1921). He notes the influence of her teacher, Ralph Vaughn Williams, but also highlights how her ‘idiom goes far beyond that of her teacher.’
The Piatti Quartet are working to record a new CD with the label Rubicon Classics, featuring the premiere recording of Ina Boyle’s entire String Quartet in E minor, with a projected release in Autumn 2022. Ina’s music will feature alongside her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams and fellow students John Ireland and Ernest Moeran, in a programme that links composers with their teachers and pupils and also highlighting the close bonds between UK and Ireland.
