First performance by Rhodri Clark (piano), Port Fairy Spring Festival of Music, St Patrick's Hall, Port Fairy, Victoria, 12 October 2024
First performance of 'Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife' by Simon Docking (piano), The Music Room, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 12 April 2023
Program note
These three pieces take famous Irish tunes, pull them apart and then (almost) put them back together. The first is dedicated to the memory of my maternal grandmother, Esther Mary Evans (née Gamble), whose family came from Banbridge, Co. Down.