Mozart the focus of Emily Anderson Memorial Concert
Galway’s Emily Anderson Annual Memorial Concert will take place on Thursday, February 15 at 8pm, at NUI Galway, in the hall at the Aula Maxima that’s named after famous graduate of the university who went on to work as an academic, translator and in the British Foreign Office, where her work in intelligence earned her an OBE. Born in 1981 in Galway, Emily Anderson died in 1962 in London.
For the first time ever, the concert in her hour will also take place in Dublin, It’s on Wednesday, February 14, in the Kevin Barry Recital Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
The Emily Anderson Memorial Concert will feature the Irish debut of 18-year-old German-Irish pianist Clara Siegle and the chamber ensemble Musici Ireland in an all-Mozart programme. Clara, who has won prizes in competitions throughout Europe. Clara will perform Mozart’s sonata in D major, composed in 1777 when he was just 21 years old. The rest of the concert will focus on his String Quintet in C major, K. 515 and his String Quintet in G minor, K. 516, both of which were written in his later years. These will be performed by Musici Ireland, made up of Ioana Petcu Colan and Jane Hackett on violins, Beth McNinch and David Kenny on violas and William Butt on cello.
The performance at the Kevin Barry Recital Room in the National Concert Hall on February 14 will be recorded for future broadcast by RTE lyric fm.
Tickets for the Galway concert, which will start at 8pm, are €20/€18. Students (full-time): €6 MFG Friends, €16.
■ Booking at www.musicforgalway.ie phone: 091 705962 in person: O’Maille’s, Shop Street, Galway City.