Ireland and Beyond - An Ode to Nature by Emma Coulthard (flutes) and David Appleton (piano)

Flautist Emma and pianist David Appleton will be performing a wide range of music, showing the many colours and moods of both the many different sizes flutes and the piano to full effect.

The program includes: Fergus Johnston’s Butterflies, Rhona Clarke's The Kingfisher, Copland’s evocative Duo, Raymond Deane's darkly sensuous Microforms, John Buckley’s evocative Nocturnals and  the Piazzolla Tango to dance us in to the night.

Emma Coulthard (flutes)

Emma Coulthard studied Flute and Recorder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Doris Keogh, and Musicology at Trinity College Dublin.. Emma took a keen interest in contemporary music from early in her career, collaborating with Irish Composers including John Buckley, Martin O’Leary and Paul Hayes in the early 1990s. Emma was the soloist for Paul Hayes’s Prix Italia piece ‘Mass Production” and as a singer worked with Michael Holohan on settings of Seamus Heaney poems . In 2018, whilst living in Wales Emma returned…