Christmas Concert 2024

Join us for Echoes of Snow – a snow-filled journey of winter classics, White Christmas, contemporary pieces, Blood Upon The Snow, the captivating Snowflakes by Gerry O’Halloran and a touch of Scandinavian charm with Ett Nyfött Barn.

We are delighted to be joined by Cormac Ó hAodáin, French horn, and Emmet O’Connor, piano, for a selection of instrumental and choral works.

Location: The Pepper Canister Church, D02 HC65

Date & Time: 8th December at 19:30

Slovenian Expedition, September 2022

A huge thank you to all those who voted for our Inception Horizon at the Earth Futures Festival 2022 competition, organised with UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences - we were delighted to be awarded third place out of 972 films from 89 countries worldwide!! Thank you so very much. We also achieved the position of Top Three Finalist in our category of Geoscience Professionals. Thanks to the TCD Provost's Visual and Performing Arts Fund, iCRAG and everyone involved in this project.

About Inception Horizon

Inspired by adventures at the Devil’s Punchbowl, Kinvara and deep inside Sliabh Elva, and guided by the insightful scientific explanations of Dr. Laurence Gill, “Inception Horizon” follows the path of atmospheric water above the lowlands of County Clare, through the soil and into the layers of rock that lie beneath. It seeps, drips and then gains traction, creating and passing through various pathways with its laminar and then increasingly turbulent flow. Over time it carves out a vast cave before finding its way back to the air via a spring.

The concept of an inception horizon features strongly in the music of the work - this is the crucial point that facilitates the initial passage of water and then stretches out like a constant ceiling above further descending erosion. Whispers of the corrosive forces at work echo in the space against an overall trajectory of descent, until the final upwards rush when you can breathe again.