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The Solas Quartet are: Katherine Hunka, violin; Marja Gaynor, violin; Cian Ó Dúill, viola; Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello.

The Solas Quartet first performed as the 2020 Quartet in online concerts during that autumn’s lockdown. Led by Irish Chamber Orchestra leader Katherine Hunka, they perform a varied programme reflecting the wide-ranging musical talents and specialities of the quartet’s members, featuring John Kinsella 's 'A Reeling Rhapsody’ for two violins.

For the second half of the concert they are joined by Cork violist Ed Creedon for Mendelssohn’s B flat string quintet.

The National String Quartet Foundation's autumn season is supported by the Arts Council and RTE Lyric FM. Concerts in County Cork are supported by Cork County Council.

Boccherini - Quartet in D major G.177 Op.15 No.1 [1772] John Kinsella - ‘A Reeling Rhapsody’ for two violins [1989] Amy Beach - Quartet Op.89 [1921] Dowland - ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’ and ‘Earl of Essex, his Galiard’ [1605] Mendelssohn - String Quintet in B flat Op.87 [1845]  

Tour Dates, Venues & Booking Links

MULLINGAR - Wednesday 9th November at 8pm - Mullingar Arts Centre CORK - Thursday 10th November at 7.30pm - MTU Cork School of Music - presented by Cork Orchestral Society MANORHAMILTON - Friday 11th November at 8pm - The Glens Centre CASTLEPOLLARD - Saturday 12th November at 7pm - Tullynally Castle - presented by Derravaragh Music Association DUBLIN - Sunday 13th November at 3pm - National Concert Hall

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Solas Quartet: Spring String Quartet Series 2024

Triskel arts centre, tobin st., sat 20 jan 2024 (note: this event has already taken place) 1pm €17/€14.

For their third NSQF tour, the Solas Quartet presents two Romantic masterpieces, Fanny Mendelssohn’s elegantly lyrical quartet from 1834, and Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its Nocturne featured in the 1953 musical Kismet. Their programme opens with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of The Tempest and features the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group. Solas Quartet Katherine Hunka, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Cian Ó Dúill, viola Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello Programme Matthew Locke – Curtain Tune from The Tempest [1674] Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E flat major [1834] Katherine Hunka – Pass the Hat [2023] arr. Marja Gaynor – Old Wedding March / Lord Mayo (trad) Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.2 in D major [1881]  About the Artists  Katherine Hunka, violin Born in London, Katherine has been the leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 2002 and regularly directs from the leader’s chair. She has toured extensively with the orchestra as soloist and director and in 2020 her solo album with the ICO of Piazzolla and Schubert received glowing

reviews. As a guest leader she has visited the Manchester Camerata, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia. Katherine plays a lot of chamber music and is Artistic Director of the Killaloe Music Festival which sees international artists gather in her home village each June. Katherine enjoys performing many styles of music. Her group “The Far Flung Trio” with accordionist Dermot Dunne and bassist Malachy Robinson play across Ireland and the UK, music from Bach to Klezmer. In 2024 they will tour Ireland and the UK to celebrate ten years together. She is a Lecturer at the MTU Cork School of Music and Artistic Director of ConCorda, a course for young chamber musicians.  Marja Gaynor, violin Originally from Finland, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She specialises in Baroque music and is a member of Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny, recording and touring with both groups regurarly. She has also performed with Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Marsyas, Dunedin Consort, London Handel Players, King's Consort and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, and plays contemporary music with Dublin Sound Lab. Marja is known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles, a fluent improviser, as well as arranger and curator. Her string arranging credits include Oscar-winning song "Falling Slowly" from the movie Once, and Marja is also a long time member of the cult band Interference. Upcoming projects include chamber music tours with the Vanbrugh and performing and arranging as a trio with uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music. Cian Ó Dúill, viola Cork born viola player Cian Ó Dúill has performed with the Vanbrugh, Carducci and Calino String Quartets, the Fidelio Trio, the Avalon Ensemble, Chroma and the Crash Ensemble. He has played in chamber music recitals with Anthony Marwood, Finghin Collins, Jorg Widmann, Hugh Tinney, Natalie Clein, Howard Shelley, Kirill Troussov, and Patricia Rozario as well as appearing at West Cork, Killaloe, Ortús, Sligo Spring, Kilkenny Arts, Cheltenham, Warwick Arts, Chichester, Aldeburgh, Wye Valley and Kings Lynn Chamber Music Festivals. Cian was a founder member of both the Regent String Quartet and the Rothko String Trio, played regularly with the Chamber Players and the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble and is currently a member of the period instrument Giordani String Quartet and Prism Ensemble. Concerto appearances include performances of works by Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Bruch and Hindemith in Ireland, the UK, Spain and Greece. Cian is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal viola of the London Mozart Players and works regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Britten Sinfonia. Cian teaches viola at both the CIT Cork School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Aoife Nic Athlaoich, celloDublin born Aoife Nic Athlaoich enjoys a verstaile career performing on both modern and baroque cello. As well as her position as principal cello with the ICO, Aoife is sub principal cellist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and a co-founder of tbe Solas String Quartet. Aoife has performed at Ireland's leading chamber music festivals and is the former artistic director of the East Cork Early Music Festival. Aoife studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin before continuing her 3rd level education at the Royal Academy of music and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London for her post graduate studies. Aoife lives in Cork city where she is a lecturer of cello at the MTU Cork school of Music. Aoife also teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and on the MA in Classical String Performance at the University of Limerick. Outside of performing and teaching, Aoife enjoys spending free time with her family and dog Marty, she is also an avid all weather sea swimmer. Supported by the Arts Council, RTÉ Lyric FM and Cork City Council

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18 Jan 2024

Thursday 18th January, 8pm

For their third NSQF tour the Solas Quartet presents two Romantic masterpieces, Fanny Mendelssohn’s elegantly lyrical quartet from 1834, and Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its  Nocturne  featured in the 1953 musical  Kismet. 

The concerts open with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of  The Tempest  and feature the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group.

Solas Quartet:

Katherine Hunka, violin; Marja Gaynor, violin; Cian Ó Dúill, viola; Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello

Matthew Locke –  Curtain Tune  from  The Tempest  [1674]

Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E flat major [1834]

Katherine Hunka – Pass the Hat [2023]

arr. Marja Gaynor – Old Wedding March / Lord Mayo (trad)

Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.2 in D major [1881]

Tickets: €18 / €16.

Supported by  the National String Quartet Foundation and its major funders, the Arts Council and RTÉ Lyric FM.

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March 8, 2023 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets: Full €18 – Concession €16

Second national tour

For their second national tour, the Solas Quartet has put together an exciting and eclectic programme.  Young Dublin-based Rohan Harron ’s Psychotia is followed by two Purcell fantasies then a third by 20 th century composer Frank Bridge .   Jessie Montgomery ’s Strum is an ecstatic celebration of American folk, and the night ends with Dvořák ’s magnificent Quartet in A flat.

Violinist Katherine Hunka is leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and artistic director of Killaloe Music Festival. Violinist Marja Gaynor also arranges music for strings, and her credits include Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly” from the movie Once. Cian Ó Dúill, viola player, is in the Irish Chamber Orchestra and works with the London Symphony Orchestra. Cellist Aoife Nic Athlaoich has recorded with the ICO and broadcast live from Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall.

The National String Quartet Foundation, the Arts Council and RTÉ Lyric FM are supporting this tour.

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Your city, your music, your provider, solas quartet, thursday 10th november 2022 | 7.30pm curtis auditorium, mtu cork school of music.

The Solas Quartet, led by Irish Chamber Orchestra leader  Katherine Hunka , presents a fascinatingly varied programme spanning four centuries and reflecting the wide-ranging musical talents and specialities of the quartet’s members. For the second half of the concert, they are joined by Cork violist  Ed Creedon  for Mendelssohn’s brilliant B flat string quintet.

Boccherini: Quartet in G minor, Op.33 No.5 John Kinsella: ‘A Reeling Rhapsody’ for two violins Amy Beach: String Quartet, Op.89 Dowland: ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’ and ‘Earl of Essex, his Galiard’ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B flat, Op.87*

Solas Quartet Marja Gaynor (violin) Katherine Hunka (violin) Cian Ó Dúill (viola) Aoife Nic Athlaoich (cello) with Ed Creedon (viola) * additional player for quintet

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Solas Quartet Touring Ireland This November

by IAYO · Published November 9, 2022 · Updated November 10, 2022

Join the Solas Quartet as they play across Ireland this November. The Solas Quartet first performed as the 2020 Quartet in online concerts during that autumn’s lockdown. Now we welcome them in real life splendour, led by Irish Chamber Orchestra leader Katherine Hunka, in a fascinatingly varied programme spanning five centuries and reflecting the wide-ranging musical talents and specialities of the quartet’s members. For the second half of the concert they are joined by Cork violist Ed Creedon for Mendelssohn’s brilliant B flat string quintet. Presented by the National String Quartet Foundation .

Tour programme is available for download here

More information and booking details here .

Mullingar – Wednesday, 9 November at 8pm – Mullingar Arts Centre Cork – Thursday, 10 November at 7.30pm – MTU Cork School of Music – presented by Cork Orchestral Society Manorhamiltion – Friday, 11 November at 8pm – The Glens Centre Castlepollard – Saturday, 12 November at 7pm – Tullynally Castle – presented by Derravaragh Music Association Dublin – Sunday, 13 November at 3pm – National Concert Hall Charleville- Saturday, November at 2pm – Musica Fusion. Mitchelstown – Saturday, 19 November at 8pm – Saint George’s Arts and Heritage Centre Youghal – Sunday 20, November at 3pm – The Mall Arts Centre – presented by Living Youghal.

Solas Quartet are Katherine Hunka (violin), Marja Gaynor (violin), Cian Ó Dúill (viola) and Aoife Nic Athlaoich (cello).

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Friday 11th November 8pm

The Solas Quartet first performed as the 2020 Quartet in online concerts during that autumn’s lockdown. Now we welcome them in real life splendor, led by Irish Chamber Orchestra leader Katherine Hunka, in a fascinatingly varied programme spanning six centuries and reflecting the wide-ranging musical talents and specialities of the quartet’s members. For the second half of the concert they are joined by Cork violist Ed Creedon for Mendelssohn’s brilliant B flat string quintet.

Solas Quartet: Katherine Hunka, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Cian O Duill, viola Aoife nic Athlaoich, cello

with Ed Creedon, viola

Boccherini – Quartet in G minor Op.33 No.5 John Kinsella – ‘A Reeling Rhapsody’ for two violins Amy Beach – Quartet Op.89 Dowland – ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’ and ‘Earl of Essex, his Galiard’ Mendelssohn – String Quintet in B flat Op.87

8pm. Tickets: €15/13

St. Barrahane's Church Festival of Music and Concerts

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(8km from Skibbereen)

Co. Cork, P81 AH51

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The Solas Quartet in Rosscarbery

January 19, 2024.

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Organised in collaboration with the National String Quartet Foundation The concert is supported by the Arts Council, Cork County Council and RTE Lyric FM

Venue: St. Fachtna's Cathedral, Rosscarbery, P85 C430, 8pm

Tickets €15 Online, at the door, at Thornhill Electrical Skibbereen or text/call 086 226 4797

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THE SOLAS QUARTET Katherine Hunka, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Cian Ó Dúill, viola Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello

Programme Matthew Locke – Curtain Tune from The Tempest [1674] Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E flat major [1834] Katherine Hunka – Pass the Hat [2023] arr. Marja Gaynor – Old Wedding March / Lord Mayo (trad) Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.2 in D major [1881]

For their third NSQF tour the Solas Quartet presents two Romantic masterpieces, Fanny Mendelssohn’s elegantly lyrical quartet from 1834, and Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its Nocturne featured in the 1953 musical Kismet. The concerts open with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of The Tempest and feature the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group.

Katherine Hunka, violin Born in London, Katherine has been the leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 2002 and regularly directs from the leader’s chair. She has toured extensively with the orchestra as soloist and director and in 2020 her solo album with the ICO of Piazzolla and Schubert received glowing reviews. As a guest leader she has visited the Manchester Camerata, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia. Katherine plays a lot of chamber music and is Artistic Director of the Killaloe Music Festival which sees international artists gather in her home village each June. Katherine enjoys performing many styles of music. Her group “The Far Flung Trio” with accordionist Dermot Dunne and bassist Malachy Robinson play across Ireland and the UK, music from Bach to Klezmer. In 2024 they will tour Ireland and the UK to celebrate ten years together. She is a Lecturer at the MTU Cork School of Music and Artistic Director of ConCorda, a course for young chamber musicians.

Marja Gaynor, violin Originally from Finland, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She specialises in Baroque music and is a member of Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny, recording and touring with both groups regularly. She has also performed with Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Marsyas, Dunedin Consort, London Handel Players, King's Consort and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, and plays contemporary music with Dublin Sound Lab. Marja is known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles, a fluent improviser, as well as arranger and curator. Her string arranging credits include Oscar-winning song "Falling Slowly" from the movie Once, and Marja is also a long time member of the cult band Interference. Upcoming projects include chamber music tours with the Vanbrugh and performing and arranging as a trio with uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music

Cian Ó Dúill, viola Cork born viola player Cian Ó Dúill has performed with the Vanbrugh, Carducci and Calino String Quartets, the Fidelio Trio, the Avalon Ensemble, Chroma and the Crash Ensemble. He has played in chamber music recitals with Anthony Marwood, Finghin Collins, Jorg Widmann, Hugh Tinney, Natalie Clein, Howard Shelley, Kirill Troussov, and Patricia Rozario as well as appearing at West Cork, Killaloe, Ortús, Sligo Spring, Kilkenny Arts, Cheltenham, Warwick Arts, Chichester, Aldeburgh, Wye Valley and Kings Lynn Chamber Music Festivals. Cian was a founder member of both the Regent String Quartet and the Rothko String Trio, played regularly with the Chamber Players and the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble and is currently a member of the period instrument Giordani String Quartet and Prism Ensemble. Concerto appearances include performances of works by Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Bruch and Hindemith in Ireland, the UK, Spain and Greece. Cian is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal viola of the London Mozart Players and works regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Britten Sinfonia. Cian teaches viola at both the CIT Cork School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello Dublin born Aoife Nic Athlaoich enjoys a versatile career performing on both modern and baroque cello. As well as her position as principal cello with the ICO, Aoife is sub principal cellist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and a co-founder of the Solas String Quartet.| Aoife has performed at Ireland's leading chamber music festivals and is the former artistic director of the East Cork Early Music Festival. Aoife studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin before continuing her 3rd level education at the Royal Academy of music and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London for her post graduate studies. Aoife lives in Cork city where she is a lecturer of cello at the MTU Cork school of Music. Aoife also teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and on the MA in Classical String Performance at the University of Limerick. Outside of performing and teaching, Aoife enjoys spending free time with her family and dog Marty, she is also an avid all weather sea swimmer.

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For their third NSQF tour the Solas Quartet presents two Romantic masterpieces, Fanny Mendelssohn’s elegantly lyrical quartet from 1834, and Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its  Nocturne  featured in the 1953 musical  Kismet. 

The concerts open with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of  The Tempest  and feature the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group.

Solas Quartet:

Katherine Hunka, violin; Marja Gaynor, violin; Cian Ó Dúill, viola; Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello

VENUE: Esker Arts Centre

LOCATION: Offaly

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SOLAS QUARTET Katherine Hunka, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Cian Ó Dúill, viola Aoife Nic Athlaoich, cello

Matthew Locke – Curtain Tune from The Tempest [1674] Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E flat major [1834] Katherine Hunka – Pass the Hat [2023] arr. Marja Gaynor – Old Wedding March / Lord Mayo (trad) Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.2 in D major [1881]

For their third National String Quartet Foundation tour the Solas Quartet presents two Romantic masterpieces, Fanny Mendelssohn’s elegantly lyrical quartet from 1834, and Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its Nocturne featured in the 1953 musical Kismet. The concerts open with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of The Tempest and feature the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group. Solas Quartet acknowledge the support of the National String Quartet Foundation and its major funders, the Arts Council and RTÉ Lyric FM.

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Marja gaynor, violin, cian o duill, viola , aoife nic athlaoich, cello.

Rohan Harron  – Psychotia [2020] 

Purcell  – Two Fantasias Z.737 and Z.738 [1680] 

Frank Bridge  – Phantasie Quartet in F minor [1905] 

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Dvořák  – Quartet in A flat Op.105 [1895]

The Solas Quartet joins us for their second live tour with another wide-ranging programme culminating in  Dvorak ’s magnificent A flat quartet. Young Dublin-based violinist and composer  Rohan Harron ’s Psychotia opens the programme with unpredictable energy and drive. Henry  Purcell  would have been of a similar age in London in 1680 when he wrote his fifteen remarkable Fantasias.  Frank Bridge ’s Phantasie Quartet is one of many early 20th century British works which bear the ‘Fantasy’ tag and look back to the form of Purcell’s Fantasias. American composer  Jessie Montgomery ’s Strum  ‘begins with fleeting nostalgia and transforms into ecstatic celebration,   drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement’.

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The Solas Quartet presents another wide-ranging programme culminating in  Dvorak ’s magnificent A flat quartet. Young Dublin-based violinist and composer  Rohan Harron ’s  Psychotia  opens the programme with unpredictable energy and drive. Henry  Purcell would have been of a similar age in London in 1680 when he wrote his fifteen remarkable Fantasias. American composer  Jessie Montgomery ’s Strum  ‘begins with fleeting nostalgia and transforms into ecstatic celebration,   drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement’.

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Katherine Hunka, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Cian O Duill, viola Aoife nic Athlaoich, cello

The Programme

Rohan Harron  – Psychotia [2020] Purcell  – Two Fantasias Z.737 and Z.738 [1680] Jessie Montgomery  – Strum [2012] Dvořák  – Quartet in A flat Op.105 [1895]

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Spring String Series 2023

Spring String Series 2023 at Triskel in association with the National String Quartet Foundation features the Banbha Quartet, Spero Quartet and Solas Quartet. The National String Quartet Foundation would like to acknowledge its major funders, the Arts Council and RTÉ Lyric FM.

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Didgeridoo virtuoso to tour NZ with Brodsky String Quartet

You can't separate William Barton from his country.

"It's embedded in your DNA, it is what makes you the person that you are."

The country of one of Australia's leading didgeridoo players is the savanna landscape of the Bidjara, Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga peoples of inland Queensland.

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Barton told RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump his peoples' relationship with that country goes back at least 60,000 years.

"To be able to tell some of that story through the art-form of music ... is a very special place to be."

Barton's name for the didgeridoo is the yidaki, and it was his Kalkadunga uncle, Arthur who taught him how to play it.

But Barton's story stretches not just back thousands of years, but also thousands of kilometres across the planet to the home of European classical music and the songs he picked up from his mother, Delmae, who had a love not just for the traditional music of her Bidjara ancestors but also for opera, and maybe even a bit of rock and roll.

Barton's latest tour of Aotearoa will see him performing his own work for voice, yidaki and strings, "Square Circles Beneath the Red Desert Sand", in a seven-venue tour with the Brodsky Quartet.

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"Square Circles" begins not with Barton's yidaki but his voice, an instrument he's turning to with growing confidence.

"In the opening of Square Circles, I want to take the audience back to that magic place which to me is the horizon ... I feel that every region, every clan's area, every tribal area throughout the world has a normal resonant frequency or a melody so that if you're in tune enough, you can either hear that melody or you can feel that melody, but that comes from that country."

"So that's why when you travel and you're a composer-in-residence, that's the whole point, to absorb that landscape - well for me anyway - to put a little bit of that landscape, allow that landscape to flow into the music as much as possible."

While it was his Uncle Arthur who taught Barton the art of the yidaki, the art of interpreting country, Barton's choice to perform with western classical musicians comes from his mother Delmae.

"My Mum, she used to play classical music to me when I was growing up, and before I was born into this world, and that was where the classical seed was planted."

Outback country near Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia

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Her love of classical music also came with an affinity for the natural world she'd learned from her Bidjari people, and which she passed on to her son.

The land around Mt Isa is rocky, isolated, tough country but, as Barton says, "it has a rugged beauty".

Long road trips through that country came with his mother's musical response to it.

"I remember as a young kid we would travel between Mt Isa and Normanton or Burketown, which were anything from 200 to 600 kilometres away ... and Mum would sing in the car between guideposts with her operatic-style voice."

If Barton's Uncle Arthur was alive now, what would he make of him playing the yidaki in the concert hall rather than at a corroboree?

"I think he would be proud, because the important thing for me is that cultural integrity ... with that honesty of intention ... playing one of the world's most ancient instruments, and ceremonial instruments as well, within the context of a symphony orchestra, I feel that I'm playing my part in humanity."

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All the Exciting Xbox News from Capcom Highlights

Broken into two eagerly anticipated events, Capcom Highlights showcased what the game publisher has been busy cooking up for Xbox fans. The results look compelling across the board — particularly for fans of action-adventure titles Capcom has become famous for — with new details for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess , Dragon’s Dogma 2 , Exoprimal , and Street Fighter 6 .

Capcom Highlights , for those who don’t know, is a worldwide online event that is different from Capcom Showcase, where they announce new details about their upcoming games, and deliver the latest news from Capcom to Xbox fans across the globe.

Catch up on all the news below:

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

This single-player, mystical action-strategy game is Capcom’s newest franchise. Its unique setting is surreal and at times psychedelic, full of wild enemy designs and kinetic, particle effect-filled actions. The game is set on a cursed mountain called Mt. Kafuku, where players will take the role of Soh with the goal of cleansing the mountain of corruption and restoring peace to the villages.

Rendered with beautifully modulated lighting effects, dynamic day and night cycles are essential to the experience. During the light of day, Soh joins forces with the rescued villagers to strategize and prepare for impending battles; come nightfall, Soh, along with the Maiden Yoshiro and the villagers, confront the embodiment of defilement on Mt. Kafuku, the Seethe. Soh wields a sword and fights the Seethe in a style reminiscent of a Shinto dance known as Kagura, as well as unleash the immense power within the sword’s Tsuba guards. The player must also constantly adapt to dynamic battle conditions, and take advantage of the different villager roles in order to protect the Maiden and cleanse the mountain of its curse: woodcutters, archers and ascetics are at the ready, altogether providing a nice combination of support abilities and raw strength and skill. You can learn even more about Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess here on Xbox Wire from our recent Xbox Partner Preview broadcast.

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is powered by Capcom’s acclaimed RE Engine and will be available day one with Xbox Game Pass for console, PC, and Cloud, as well as on Xbox Series X|S and Windows.

Dragon’s Dogma 2

Director Hideaki Itsuno and Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi were on hand to explain some exciting announcements surrounding the release of their upcoming title, Dragon’s Dogma 2 . Players will be able to party up with as many as three AI-driven “Pawn” characters; the decisions the player makes throughout the game will impact the relationships between their own Arisen and other characters, as well as the interactions and dynamics between those AI characters. How one tackles quest objectives and interactions with other characters is what drives these systems, and sometimes hinges on the player’s ability to employ creative solutions to avoid physical altercations (think: bribery, counterfeiting objects, etc). In a world comprised of over 1000 unique characters, the player’s choices will have a dramatic ripple effect on the interpersonal dynamics among them.

Additionally, Itsuno and Hirabayashi showed the Dragon’s Dogma 2 Character Creator and Storage tool. Available for free to download now on the Xbox Store , the tool provides players the option to create up to five unique designs for their Arisen and Main Pawn characters each, and will be instantly transferred to the full game when Dragon’s Dogma 2 drops on March 22 for Xbox Series X|S — the game is also currently available for pre-order here on the Xbox Store . The company plans to release official Capcom support Pawns created by renowned content creators in the near future as well.

Exoprimal is Capcom’s popular third-personal dinosaur shooter, and a new update — dubbed Title Update 4 — is coming next month. This newest free content drop is a big one, including two new game modes and six additional Exosuit Beta variants for players to equip. The coming season will also include an unexpected but welcome Mega Man crossover, complete with a new boss battle and a grip of Mega Man-themed cosmetics.

The new modes sound Intriguing for sure: “Time Loop Rebellion” is a co-op challenge, where ten players take on the game’s final boss, the Behemoth, in an expanded, even more fearsome form. Players can earn new rewards, including (but not limited to) golden “first class” Exosuit skins. The other new mode, dubbed simply “Custom Match,” lets players create their own lobbies and select their map and mission type(s), à la carte. These custom rooms can be shared cross-platform, thereby expanding the opportunities for cooperative hijinks. There’s even a new setting thrown in for good measure, called “Quick Brawl”; here, Exofighters can jump straight into their favorite final missions, including the more PvP-focused varieties.

As mentioned, six brand new Beta variant Exosuits will be available in the update as well, boosting the total to thirty. And you’ll be suiting up soon, as Exoprimal Title Update 4 is slated to drop on April 17th.

Street Fighter 6

Last but not least, Capcom unveiled a little something to excite the Street Fighter heads. Shown off in the form of a blistering teaser trailer, the publisher announced that fan-favorite demon Akuma will be coming to its top-tier fighting game, Street Fighter 6 . The legendary Akuma will be available in Battle Hub, Fighting Ground, as well as World Tour mode, with new missions and a unique area to boot. While no specific release date was given, Capcom says he’s on track to release sometime this Spring.

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