Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring co-directors flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne. The duo explores a diverse program of music spanning from the hills of Ireland to tall ships on the Atlantic, traveling around the world and through time, exploring the flute as an instrument with the ability to dance, sing, yearn and tell stories. The program begins with a new composition by New Zealand born composer Salina Fisher, then moves to a fresh imagining of the iconic J.S Bach Flute Partita, arranged by Rosie for flute and electronics. The listener is then taken to the picturesque world of traditional Irish wanderings before a dramatic shift to the Australian premiere of Belinda Reynolds’ emotionally stirring work Share. This provides the perfect set up to the final work on the program: Valerie Coleman’s deep and dramatic tone poem for flute and piano depicting the Middle Passage in which Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic by tall ships to be sold into slavery.

Yozora (2024) for solo flute by Salina Fisher
J.S Bach Partita (1726) arranged by R.Gallagher for flute and electronics
(Australian Premiere)
Traditional: Irish Tunes
Belinda Reynolds: (2003) Share for alto flute and piano
Valerie Coleman: (2018) Wish Sonatine for flute and piano