Programme Overview

Featuring Works Inspired by the Links Between Ireland & Wales

Simffoni Mara Trio

David Pepper - Piano

Daniel Davies - Cello

Georgina Stalbow – Soprano

David Pepper, Composer : Words, Jon Gower

The Curlew Cry Song Cycle - David Pepper, Piano – Georgina Stalbow, Soprano

Commissioned in 2024 by Cwmni Mara CIC for the Simffoni Mara Project

Jobina Tinnemans

Songs That Never Come Ashore

Commissioned in 2024 by Cwmni Mara CIC for the Simffoni Mara Project.

Georgina Stalbow, Soprano; Daniel Davies, Cello; David Pepper, Piano

John Metcalf

Ynys Las (2004) – Commissioned by Myles Pepper

Daniel Davies, Cello; David Pepper, Piano

Dan Jones

Between the Sea and the Stars - Movement 2 Air - commissioned for the Simffoni Mara Project, by

Cwmni Mara CIC and premiered in St David’s Cathedral 2024

David Pepper, Piano; Daniel Davies, Cello; Simon Harden, Organ

Eric Sweeney (1948 – 2020)

Scene from Ulysses Opera - (2014)

Scene 12. Nausikaa   

Georgina Stalbow, Soprano; David Pepper, Piano.

Paul Mealor, Composer - A Welsh Prayer

Daniel Davies, Cello; David Pepper, Piano

Ailbhe McDonagh

Skellig : Daniel Davies, Cello; David Pepper, Piano

Paul Mealor, Composer - Words by Grahame Davies

Y Ddwy Chwaer (The Two Sisters) Pilgrim Songs inspired by the Wexford-Pembrokeshire Pilgrim Way

Georgina Stalbow, Soprano; Daniel Davies, Cello; David Pepper, Piano