Piece By Piece #4: Cormac Mccarthy

IMC and Triskel are coming together to host a weekly sequence of online solo performances featuring leading Irish improvisers, streaming each Friday at 8pm.

Moving into May with the 4th concert in the series, composer, pianist and arranger Cormac McCarthy brings to bear a background across traditional, jazz, and classical music in his music. An individualistic use of Irish traditional tunes in a jazz idiom along with sweepingly cinematic textures marries genres which are seldom brought together successfully.

In the Piece by Piece series, each artist’s input performance will influence or inspire the next performance in this musical chain. Piece by piece, artists will create new improvised work, based on the preceding work. Improvising musicians are uniquely skilled at interpretation and spontaneous creation allowing for fresh creation of the highest calibre....

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IMC and Triskel are coming together to host a weekly sequence of online solo performances featuring leading Irish improvisers, streaming each Friday at 8pm.

Moving into May with the 4th concert in the series, composer, pianist and arranger Cormac McCarthy brings to bear a background across traditional, jazz, and classical music in his music. An individualistic use of Irish traditional tunes in a jazz idiom along with sweepingly cinematic textures marries genres which are seldom brought together successfully.

In the Piece by Piece series, each artist’s input performance will influence or inspire the next performance in this musical chain. Piece by piece, artists will create new improvised work, based on the preceding work. Improvising musicians are uniquely skilled at interpretation and spontaneous creation allowing for fresh creation of the highest calibre.

Piece by Piece: Cormac McCarthy
Friday 1st May, 8pm

Streaming on IMC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovisedMusicCo

And Triskel Arts Centre Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/triskelartscentre/

READ MORE about the full programme here: https://www.improvisedmusic.ie/news/artists-announced-for-piece-by-piece

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