Philip Glass Ensemble

An evening of chamber music featuring songs & poems for cello

Tissues, from Naqoyqatsi - Cello & Percussion

Metamorphosis II, III, IV - Solo Piano

Etudes II & X - Solo Piano

Songs & Poems for Solo Cello - Solo Cello

The Orchard - Cello, Piano & Percussion

Closing, from Glassworks - Cello, Piano & Percussion

Through his operas, symphonies, film scores, compositions for his own ensemble and his wide ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Allen Ginsberg to Woody Allen and David Bowie to Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass has has an extraordinary and unprecendented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.

In a major coup for Galway Arts Festival, and for an event which promises to be one of the performances of the year, the Philip Glass Ensemble perform in the ambient surroundings of the intimates 13th century St.Nicholas' Collegiate