Cork’s Sam Perkin premieres ‘Beginnings’, his third commission for the Irish Chamber Orchestra
The Irish Chamber Orchestra has commissioned the talented Cork-born composer, Sam Perkin, to write a new encore for the ensemble. His much-anticipated Beginnings is an intimate work that contains fragments from the first piece or musical memory of each player in the orchestra. Perkin received his first commission in 2015 from the ICO, which resulted in his shimmering Nimbus for String Orchestra. The orchestra recently…