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