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Lafcadio Hearn project – Creating a world of expression

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18 March 2026 - 18 March 2026

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Teikyo University Durham, Lafcadio Hearn Centre, Millhill Lane

  • £10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s

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This concert features four pieces of music for piano and recitation, composed by four composers based on the works of Lafcadio Hearn. The texts used range from ghost stories to dialogues with a Bodhisattva, offering both fascinating and profound content.

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Lafcadio Hearn portrait

While Lafcadio Hearn lived in Ireland, Britain, America, and Japan, the four composers selected for this project are: a Japanese composer; a composer born in Japan who has lived long in America; an Irish composer; and a composer born in Ireland who has lived long in Japan and now resides in Ireland and Britain.

Our aim is to forge a new expressive world based on the profoundly compelling literary universe of Lafcadio Hearn – a writer whose complex identity endowed him with a unique perspective on other cultures.

In association with The Oriental Museum, Durham University, and Teikyo University of Japan in Durham.

 

Satoko Inoue, piano

John McLachlan, reader

 

Yuji Itoh: The Reconciliation

Akemi Naito: Ubazakura

John McLachlan: Fragment

Paul Hayes: The Second Heaven of Desire in Old Tramore

 

Satoko Inoue is a renowned leading interpreter of contemporary solo piano music. Since 1991, after her career as the member of “Musica Practica Ensemble,” she has been engaged in solo activities. Her repertoires mainly include the works of Jo Kondo, Morton Feldman, John Cage and Luc Ferrari as well as those of other Japanese composers. 

Pricing

£10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s