Christine composes new music for settings of poems by W.B. Yeats

Christine has been invited to perform at this year’s ‘Summer’s Wreath’, a month long celebration of the works of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. On the 28th of June Christine will present a selection of Yeats’s poems that she has set to music especially for this event, alongside some of her own work influenced by the great poet. This is her latest composing project and she has just completed new music for “The Song Of Wandering Aengus” and “When You Are Old” with others still in progress. Playing with Christine are two outstanding UK musicians who are major figures on the international contemporary music scene, guitarist Phil Robson and pianist Liam Noble.

Leading names from the world of music, stage, screen, visual arts, politics, literature and academia are coming together at the National Library of Ireland this June for its annual month-long celebration of the life and works of William Butler Yeats. With the programme now in it’s 4th year, ‘Summer’s Wreath 2010′ offers free public readings, reflections, lectures and performances and will feature many prominent female contributors this year echoing the passionate and complex relationship which Yeats had with women throughout his life