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"Nesting Doll" (2015) by Sam Perkin

Performed by Finghin Collins
The New Ross Piano Festival
Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland

The Ros Tapestry Suite is a remarkable collection of 15 compositions for solo piano by 15 Irish composers. Each tapestry in the collection will have a sonic counterpart, displaying an extraordinary collaboration between the arts.

Nesting Doll is inspired by Tapestry No. 8 - The Marriage of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare. After a long time with this particular tapestry, one starts to notice the deeper themes hidden within. These themes go far past what is first noticed to a crystal clear area of realization. A puzzle unlocked. For me, the most striking aspect of the tapestry is the manner in which it perfectly conveys the themes of lineage, ancestry, expectation, time and change. The Russian Matryoshka Doll, descendant of the Japanese Fukurama Doll, kept appearing in my mind whenever I looked at the tapestry. Nesting Doll is the modern English term currently in use. This seemingly simple toy contains a secret that is present in the tapestry and the piece both structurally and thematically, and indeed philosophically. Upon opening a Nesting Doll, one unearths the deep truth hidden within.

The Ros Tapestry Suite is the most ambitious project undertaken by the New Ross Piano Festival since its inception in 2006. It represents a variegated musical response to the Ros Tapestry, an impressive fifteen-panel work of embroidery tracing the history of the Norman invasion of Ireland. The double-album edition documents fifteen works for solo piano, each commissioned from a different Irish composer by the New Ross Piano Festival, and each involved with a distinct and personal engagement with one of the tapestry panels. The fifteen pieces were premiered by an array of Irish and international pianists, five at a time, at the three piano festivals in September 2014, 2015 and 2016. For each performance, the tapestry in question was carried up to the church from the exhibition space and displayed beside the piano. The compositions are as rich and varied as the tapestry is colourful and engrossing.

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