Carmel Bach Festival - Across the Sea: A Celtic Journey

Across the Sea - A Celtic Journey

Edwin Huizinga, violin
William Coulter, guitar
Maeve Gilchrist, harp
Brian Finnegan, irish whistles and flute
Andrew Megill, tenor
Festival Orchestra

Edwin Huizinga and William Coulter of Fire & Grace invite you to join them on another heartfelt journey of folk and Baroque music from Ireland and Scotland, and across the sea. The dynamic duo will be sharing a brand new and astonishing genre-defying mash-up of Bach and Irish music with a world premiere arrangement of Partita Celtica, a combination of the B minor solo violin partita with a Robert Schumann-inspired guitar part, mixed in with incredible original compositions from Celtic superstar musician Brian Finnegan.

They will also be sharing beautiful and iconic songs, including Danny Boy. Maeve Gilchrist, a creative composer and harpist, sings Bee’s Wing and will share one of her original compositions along with her favorite Scottish and Irish airs and dances. Edwin and William, also known as Fire & Grace, are two virtuoso performers who explore the musical landscape of classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from around the world. Join us on this voyage!

Program:

Suite O’Carolan (10 minutes) | Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738)

Concerto for Violin and Harp in G major (10 minutes) | Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Partita Celtica (30 minutes) | J.S. Bach/ Brian Finnegan

Intermission

Excerpts from The Harp Weaver (15 minutes) | Maeve Gilchrest

Airs and Dances (12 minutes) | Traditional Irish

Bee’s Wings (8 minutes) | Richard Thompson (1949-)

Danny Boy (5 minutes) | Traditional Irish

Across the Sea | Traditional

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