FUAIM Concert: Antoni O'Breskey & Ultan O'Brien, 2nd December, 1.10pm, Aula Maxima

9 Dec 2022

We have another wonderful concert lined up for you this Friday in the Glucksman Gallery where we welcome back the extraordinary pianist, composer, singer and musical explorer, Antoni O'Breskey, in duet with Ultan O'Brien, fiddle player, violist and composer.

Presenting a programme of traditional, world and contemporary music, they will be joined by special guest Consuelo Nerea.

Please join us in the Glucksman or on the livestream at 1:10pm - fáilte roimh chách! All welcome!

Antoni O'Breskey is a composer, pianist, singer, trumpet player, writer and music educator. Born in Italy with Argentine roots, he graduated in piano at Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini of Florence and introduced improvised-style piano into Irish and Flamenco music, blending it with blues and creating a positively new and original jazz piano style described by Harry Long in the The Waltons Guide to Irish Music as “unique and superb.” During the 80s the Spanish broadcasting ‘Fin de Siglos' also described him as “The new Keith Jarrett from the Mediterranean.”

“He is a man for whom the notion of borders means very little, a genius whose music is without frontiers, and whose originality makes him one of the most innovative composers in any contemporary medium. He gives us a strong idea of our roots and besides points out a few possible roads we might take in the future.” OLIVER SWEENEY, HOTPRESS

“O’Breskey’s musical crossovers have an ethical imperative as well. He seeks to mesh the majority with the minority, the present with the past, and the vocal with the silenced, so as to “deflate the ethnocentrism of classical Western music.” For this musician, musical cultures are not defined by borders, but by historical roots that reach deeply across all areas of the globe.” COLLEEN TAYLOR, IRISH ECHO, NEW YORK

Ultan O'Brien is a fiddle player, violist and composer hailing from County Clare drawing from a rich background in traditional Irish music and improvised music. In 2020 Ultan was named one of the Contemporary Music Centre’s Emerging Composers. Ultan records, performs and tours traditional and contemporary Irish music as a soloist & with a number of groups/ bands including Irish/Finnish folk group, Slow Moving Clouds, Irish folk band Skipper’s Alley, Scottish/Irish/Manx collaboration Aon Teanga: Un Çhengey, and duos with Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Nic Gareiss.