Refracting Light | Chamber Choir Ireland & Benjamin Goodson at New Music Dublin

Benjamin Goodson (Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir) joins Chamber Choir Ireland for a feast of contemporary choral music at New Music Dublin 2025.

Featuring Xenakis' 'Nuits', composed as a protest against the cruel incarceration of untried political prisoners; Georgi Sztojanov's 'Refracting Light', based on the visual metaphor of pure truth breaking apart through a prism of words; Arvo Pärt's 'The Woman with the Alabaster Box', telling a story from the Gospel of Matthew; Kaija Saariaho's 'Nuits, adieux', about singing, breathing, whispering, night time, farewells; and Anna-Karin Klockar's 'Speeches', an avant-garde choral cycle consisting of three different historical speeches.