Pipeworks International Organ & Choral Festival 2026: David Bremner

Organist and composer David Bremner presents an immersive programme, timed with sunset in the beautiful Adam and Eve's church. First is the world premiere of renowned UK composer Christopher Fox's The River. Christopher writes: "I am fascinated by streams and rivers – they seem to have such strong identities yet are always changing, always on the move". The three-movement work is inspired by three rivers, and the movements are inscribed with texts by Dorothy Wordsworth, Heinrich Heine, and Mark Twain. A further riverine aspect of this occasion is that it takes place on Bloomsday in the church by the Liffey to which James Joyce refers in the first words of Finnegans Wake: “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s”.
This will be followed by the Irish premiere of Morton Feldman's Principal Sound. Feldman's only work for solo organ, it was composed for the 1981 Contemporary Organ Music Festival in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and explores timbral sensitivity by exchanging same or similar musical material between a number of eight-foot stops, creating a spindly and elusive soundworld.

TICKETS: €15 / €10 concession

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