Join Munster Social Group at glór in Ennis for an evening of classical music with Solas Quartet.

The wonderful Solas Quartet presents another programme full of interest and variety, culminating in one of Schubert’s best-loved quartets.

Founded in 2020, the Solas Quartet is a Cork-based ensemble comprised of some of Ireland's finest orchestral and chamber musicians. Their engaging and entertaining programme includes chamber music favourite, Franz Schubert, and a striking quartet by 20th-century Polish composer Gratyzna Bacewicz. As a unique treat, the quartet will also present two new works by its own members (Hunka and Gaynor).

Solas Quartet comprises:

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

Polish violinist-composer Grażyna **Bacewicz** wrote her third string quartet while on a concert tour in Paris in 1947, and it has become one of her best known. Its hypnotically beautiful central section is framed by energetic, tightly argued, and entertaining outer movements.

Solas Quartet members **Katherine Hunka** and **Marja Gaynor** both present new works on this tour, Katherine a new quartet based on the tune *The Lark in the Clear Air,* and Marja new arrangements of Irish and English folk tunes.

**Schubert** wrote his A minor quartet in 1824 at the age of 27. It is quite different to the more dramatic quartet *Death and the Maiden* that he wrote at around the same time, instead offering memorable delicacy and subtlety, an atmosphere of bittersweet yearning and as so often in Schubert’s music, delicious lyricism.

**Programme:**

* **Grażyna Bacewicz** \- String Quartet No\.3 \[1947\]
* **Katherine Hunka** *\- Into the clear air \[2025\] †*
* **Marja Gaynor -** *Siúil a Rúin & Paul’s Steeple [2025] †*
* **Schubert** \- Quartet in A minor *Rosamunde* [1824]

*† First performances*

**Notes:**

* Tickets (€20; discounts [€18]) may be purchased at the venue on the night or online in advance from glór, [here](https://glor.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173666718).
* **Pre-Concert talk with Quartet members at 7.15 pm**
* The doors to the venue open approx. 30 minutes before the start of the movie, which begins at 19:15 (pre-show talk) and the performance begins at 19:30 h sharp. Tea, coffee, snacks, etc., will be available. I shall be there from approximately 18:45 h if any of you wish to come along and say hello (you are very welcome to).
* You are welcome to bring a guest(s).
* Please RSVP only when you have purchased your ticket(s) and are committed to attending. Thank you.

Barry McGrath

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