Cellist Mary Barnecutt has created a concert of ‘chamber folk’ featuring strings, Irish harp, percussion and piano. Drawing from her experience as a musician and creative writer, Mary has imagined vast and varied soundscapes from piano and orchestral strings to adaptations of folk melodies. For this concert with her ensemble, they will perform chamber music arrangements of works from her two albums, interspersed with traditional English and Irish folk tunes.

Mary Barnecutt is Dublin-based composer and musician who works with a wide variety of artistic and educational projects. She writes and arranges music for film, theatre and dance productions, and has collaborated with artists such as Liz Roche, Justine Doswell, Amanda Coogan, Adrian Crowley, Ruth O’Mahony Brady and Ray Harman. She frequently works as a string arranger and soundtrack collaborator, most recently with Stephen Shannon for his highly acclaimed 'Fathoms’ LP. She is music programmer of the Sundays at Noon concert series in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery, and is co-director of ‘Spike’, Dublin’s annual alternative cello festival (www.spikecellofest.com). She produces, records and releases music on her label, Sharkwoman Records, including the albums 'Into Air' (2016) and 'Like Water' (2024)