We have two tickets to give away to three lucky winners (3 x 2) for Joanna MacGregor at the The Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin 1 on Friday 20 March. To be in with a chance of winning, just email us at nomoreworkhorse@gmail.com and tell us the name of the Irish composer who she will be performing a piece by on the night (answer below).

The competition ends on March 13th at 1pm. All entrants must be over 18 and the tickets are non transferable. Please mark your email Joanna MacGregor Competition, and include your name and day time telephone number.

Tickets for this concert start from just €13. For more see www.musicnetwork.ie. Full tour dates are included below.

Win tickets to see world-renowned pianist Joanna MacGregor with Music Network

Witness the musical phenomenon that is pianist Joanna MacGregor at The Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin 1 on Friday 20^th March 2015. Renowned for her dazzling technique, irrepressible energy and musical intellect, she is simply unmissable.

For this tour Joanna will perform a musical sketch of her life: an eclectic and engaging programme with spine-tingling renditions of Bach via Piazzolla and Thelonious Monk, as well as a brand new commission from Irish composer Conor Linehan.

Since coming to prominence in the 1980s, Joanna MacGregor has built a formidable reputation as one of the world’s most innovative – and tireless – musicians. A renowned concert pianist, she is also a highly-respected composer, curator, conductor and teacher.

Throughout her career, MacGregor has repeatedly broken the mould, thanks in part to a hugely diverse repertoire stretching from the Baroque canon to improvised jazz and North American avant-garde. A veteran of over thirty solo recordings, she has collaborated with an amazing array of artists, including Django Bates, Moses Molelekwa, Andy Sheppard, Brian Eno and Nitin Sawhney, as well as performing with such eminent conductors as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Tickets for this concert start from just €13. For more see www.musicnetwork.ie

Programme:

J.S. Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich (Five Preludes and Fugues); Frédéric Chopin (Six Mazurkas); Conor Linehan (Roadshow); Lost Highways and American Journeys (Charles Ives: The Alcotts – Thelonious Monk: Monk’s Point – Traditional: Deep River – Professor Longhair: Big Chief  – Traditional: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down); Astor Piazzolla (Four Tangos)

On Tour:

·         Thursday 19 March: Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music, Cork

·         Friday 20 March: The Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin 1

·         Sunday 22 March: The Model, Sligo

·         Monday 23 March: Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar

·         Wednesday 25 March: Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

·         Thursday 26 March: Georgian Large Room, City Hall, Waterford

·         Saturday 28 March: Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath