Trio Festivale (Sabrina Hu - flute, Gerald Peregrine - cello, and Cathal Breslin - piano) will be 
performing the program "The Great Hunger" in their U.S. tour in September, which is sponsored and 
promoted by Culture Ireland, the government arts agency of Ireland.  The program "The Great 
Hunger" is an all-Irish related program, including Frank Martin's Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, new 
arrangements of Irish traditional music for the ensemble, and at the center of the program, a newly 
commissioned poetry and music work, "The Great Hunger" by composer Ian Wilson. The new work 
celebrates one of the most influential works of poetry by the great Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67), 
combining poetry and music in the performance.