Looking forward to the concert, the UO\u2019s Head of Marketing and Development, Lydia Gamble said, \u201cOur first Lunchtime concert of the new Season last month was one of the best attended. The Series itself, which began in 2009, has proved popular with regular concertgoers, shoppers, city centre workers and visitors from outside the city, especially since the cost is about the same as a cinemar ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apr\u00e8s-Midi<\/em> is the first lunchtime concert not to take place in the Ulster Hall and Lydia Gamble hoped that concertgoers would remember that the concert is in the Assembly Buildings which was formerly known as the Spires Centre. \u201cWe had to make the Ulster Hall available to the organisers of the MTV European Music Awards, so the concert is now taking place at the Assembly Buildings, but will still start at 1.05pm and teh concert will last 50 minutes like always.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen the second movement is so beautiful and also quite sad in contrast to the first movement. Apparently it was written on the death of his father. Then the last movement is a great big ball of excitement with an explosive end!\u201d Eimear explained.<\/p>\n The conductor for the Lunchtime concert is Christopher Wilkins from Boston, who makes his UK, Irish and Ulster Orchestra d\u00e9but\u2019s all in the one day. \u201cThe Concert features wonderfully vibrant French music that lies just outside of the standard repertoire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe challenge for me will be to find what is unique about each piece, how it sets an individual mood or is suggestive of the place it describes. But I have always felt, the Ibert Flute Concerto to be one of the most entertaining of all 20th Century wind concertos.\u201d<\/p>\n This year two Ulster Orchestra concerts are part of the 170 gigs and performances that make up Belfast Music Week. The second, with Nikolai Demidenko, takes place on Saturday 5 November at the Whitlay Hall when he plays Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No.1 in an all Russian concert \u2013 Russian Colours<\/em>. Tickets are still available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the MTV European Music Awards this weekend, hundreds of concertgoers will enjoy music of a different kind today (2 November) as part of Belfast Music Week, when Craigavon flautist Eimear McGeown makes her Ulster Orchestra d\u00e9but at the Orchestra\u2019s popular JTI Lunchtime Concert in city centre\u2019s Assembly Buildings. This Season, the Lunchtime Concerts have … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Eimear-3-2.jpg\" "\\"Eimear")
<\/a>Eimear McGeown was \u2018Best Performer\u2019 by unanimous vote at the Sir James Galway International Masterclasses in Switzerland in 2009 and has won many awards. \u201cI love the energy that the piece has,\u201d she said. \u201cThe first movement has such a great start; it captures everyone\u2019s attention straight away and is so rhythmically exciting.<\/p>\n