Liberty Hall Theatre

1 - 2pm

Festival Opening

Artistic Director Benjamin Dwyer will launch the festival and the key note speech will be given by Prof.Richard Steinitz OBE.

The highlight of the launch will be the Irish première of Ligeti’s avant-garde classic 'Poème Symphonique' for 100 Metronomes.

* Admission Free

Liberty Hall Theatre

2 - 4.20pm

Film Showing I

Stanley Kubrick's 1968 pioneering film 2001: A Space Odyssey also did much to introduce Ligeti to a wider audience using extracts from his Requiem, Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna and Aventures.

* Admission Free

Liberty Hall Conference Room:

4.45 - 6.45pm

Ligeti Symposium I

(academic papers on aspects of Ligeti’s works)

Ciarán Crilly: The ‘Perfect Collaborator’: 'Ligeti and the Films of Stanley Kubrick'
Benjamin Dwyer: 'Line and Lament'
Wolfgang Marx: 'A Dwarf Star through the Looking-glass –
Unity and Dialectics in György Ligeti’s Second String Quartet'
Ian Pace: 'The Piano Etudes'

* Admission Free

Liberty Hall Theatre

7.30 - 8.30pm

Recital I

Ian Pace (piano)

Programme

György Ligeti: 'Études for Piano' (complete)

Tickets: €10 - €8 concessions booking details

Liberty Hall Theatre

9pm

Film Showing II

'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) was Stanley Kubrick’s last film. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and features Ligeti’s 'Musica ricercata' for piano.

* Admission Free