Lord Mayo (trad)
arr. Marja Gaynor [2024]

Performed by the Solas Quartet
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 21st January 2024

The tune of Lord Mayo is very old, and sometimes credited to harper Daithi O Murchaid, who enjoyed Lord Mayo's patronage. There are associated lyrics, also attributed to O Murchaid, but the tune is mostly known in its intrumental form. The earliest written version comes from 1724, in John and William Neal's "A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes". I have based this arrangement on the melody played by uillean piper David Power. Marja Gaynor

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Originally from Finland, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She specialises in Baroque music and is a member of Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny, recording and touring with both groups regularly. She has also performed with Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Marsyas, Dunedin Consort, London Handel Players and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Marja is known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles, a fluent improviser, as well as arranger and curator. Upcoming projects include chamber music tours with Solas Quartet and The Vanbrugh and performing and arranging as a trio with uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music.