Taking the traditional Irish tune ‘My Lagan Love’ as a compositional starting point, ‘I thirst’ is a new choral work by Belfast based composer Anselm McDonnell, multi-tracked by the composer, his wife, and brother. The words are taken from Psalms 42 & 43.
You can read more about the process behind this piece here.
Bio:
Anselm McDonnell is an Irish/Welsh composer based in Belfast. He has written over sixty works for a variety of ensembles and regularly works with artists from other disciplines. His music has been performed in North America, Canada, Finland, Japan, Russia, and across Europe. He also performs on the classical and electric guitar.
Karen is finishing a PhD program in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts after careers in corporate management, consulting, and pastoral and theatre ministry. She explores theological and theatrical contexts of ’empty space’ and general human disposition toward it, with emphasis on improvisation (specifically Playback Theatre) and Holy Saturday. Since 2017, Karen has led or advised ITIA’s Transept group, a postgraduate-led group of multidisciplinary practicing artists. Karen was an editor for Transpositions from 2017 to 2022. As Editor-in-Chief, she fostered a closer partnership between Transpositions and Transept, hosted the In/break exhibition on the Transpositions site, and introduced regular series into the publishing schedule.
