Chamber Music at Grangegorman | A Celebration of Joan Trimble 25/03/25
Date of Event: Tuesday, 25th March 2025
For our next Chamber Music at Grangegorman concert, we celebrate the works of Joan Trimble! Danusia Oslizlok and Una Hunt will perform together on two pianos and are joined by soprano, Sorcha O’Regan.
🗓️ Tuesday, 25th March
🕠 13:00 – 14:00
📍 Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🎫 €10 / €5 Concession (Free for all Conservatoire Staff and Student with TU Dublin ID)
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Programme
Two piano works, Joan Trimble
The Cows are a-milking
Gartan Mother’s Lullaby
The Heather Glen
Sonatina, Joan Trimble
Moderato
Minuet
Rondo
Jamaican Rumba, Arthur Benjamin
Songs, Joan Trimble
My Grief on the Sea
Green Rain
Girl’s Song
Two pianos
Moy Mell, Arnold Bax
Two piano works, Joan Trimble
Buttermilk Point (reel)
The Bard of Lisgoole
The Humours of Carrick (Hop-jig)
Joan Trimble
Joan Trimble was one of the most distinguished musicians to emerge from Ireland in the twentieth century. Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in 1915, she initially studied in Dublin and then in London, joining her sister Valerie at the Royal College of Music where she studied piano with the Australian pianist, Arthur Benjamin, and composition with two of England's leading composers, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
During the years of WW2, Joan and Valerie made a name for themselves as a two-piano duo with regular broadcasts on the BBC. Many of Joan’s attractive two-piano works were composed for the sisters’ broadcasts, incorporating a distinct and unique Irish idiom. The first group of three pieces on the programme are folksong arrangements while the last group: ‘Buttermilk Point’, ‘The Bard of Lisgoole’ and ‘The Humours of Carrick’ are deftly constructed to resemble Irish airs. Joan’s ‘Sonatina’ is composed in a more universal and contemporary vein. Also included is ‘Moy Mell’ by Arnold Bax – frequently performed by the Trimbles in concert and broadcasts, while Arthur Benjamin’s ‘Jamaican Rumba’ was dedicated to the sisters after a trip to the Caribbean.
Joan gravitated naturally towards song-writing and three of her songs are included in the programme, ‘My Grief on the Sea’, a setting of one of the Love songs of Connaught translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde; also, ‘Green Rain’ a setting of poetry by Mary Webb and the character song, ‘Girl’s Song’ with words by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson about a visit to the local fair.
Trimble, Joan | Dictionary of Irish Biography
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