Abstract
BAILE/home
Where is home? For millions of displaced people, this question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. Home can be a place of nurture, safety, and ancestral roots, or a place of oppression, lack of opportunity, and loss. Homes can be lost but also found, regained, rediscovered, and made anew.
In this performance, renowned harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, contemporary violinist & improvisor Angharad Davies, and boundary-exploring pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett join forces to give a home to new music that combines contemporary and historical instruments. The set-up creates a striking visual arrangement and draws listeners into sounds both old and new, humorous and serious, reflective and progressive.
Xenia Pestova Bennett’s new piece BAILE/home (commissioned in 2024 by Yonit Kosovske with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland) brings together stories of migration, memory, and (be)longing with text, field recordings and early music instruments and will be placed in context with contemporary and historical repertoire.
Other repertoire on this concert programme include works by Anna-Kaisa Meklin, Janet Oates, Evangelia Rigaki, Ed Bennett, Michael Finnissy, and Karlheinz Essl.
The performers gratefully acknowledge support from the PRS Foundation Beyond Borders scheme on this tour in collaboration with H.I.P.S.T.E.R., Historically Informed Performance Series, Teaching, Education and Research.
Where is home? For millions of displaced people, this question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. Home can be a place of nurture, safety, and ancestral roots, or a place of oppression, lack of opportunity, and loss. Homes can be lost but also found, regained, rediscovered, and made anew.
In this performance, renowned harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, contemporary violinist & improvisor Angharad Davies, and boundary-exploring pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett join forces to give a home to new music that combines contemporary and historical instruments. The set-up creates a striking visual arrangement and draws listeners into sounds both old and new, humorous and serious, reflective and progressive.
Xenia Pestova Bennett’s new piece BAILE/home (commissioned in 2024 by Yonit Kosovske with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland) brings together stories of migration, memory, and (be)longing with text, field recordings and early music instruments and will be placed in context with contemporary and historical repertoire.
Other repertoire on this concert programme include works by Anna-Kaisa Meklin, Janet Oates, Evangelia Rigaki, Ed Bennett, Michael Finnissy, and Karlheinz Essl.
The performers gratefully acknowledge support from the PRS Foundation Beyond Borders scheme on this tour in collaboration with H.I.P.S.T.E.R., Historically Informed Performance Series, Teaching, Education and Research.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Place of Publication | Rathmullan, Donegal |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Jul 2026 |
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SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
Keywords
- New Music
- Contemporary Music
- Music Commission
- Contemporary Harpsichord
- Collaboration
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