Belfast Sat 8pm £8 048-90975337 Erin Lesser (Flute), Carol McGonnell (Clarinet) NCH, Dublin Tues 8.30pm €10 01-4170000

Offaly-born composer Ann Cleare is not a well-known name on the new music scene in Ireland. She’s followed a well-worn pattern by making more impact abroad than at home. The big players in new music (RTÉ, the Crash Ensemble and Concorde) haven’t exactly been falling over themselves to present Cleare’s work, though she has featured in a young composer focus at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and has won the composition competition at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin. She’s already worked at IRCAM in Paris, and is currently studying for a PhD at Harvard under Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.

Cleare’s new Eyam for bass clarinet and electronics gets two performances this week, from Carol McGonnell of New York’s Argento Ensemble (above) at the mini-festival Sonorities in Belfast, and in the New Sound Worlds series at the National Concert Hall. Also on offer over the two concerts (featuring flute, clarinet and percussion in Belfast, flute and clarinet only in Dublin) are works by Allain Gaussin, Vinko Globokar, Beat Furrer, Luigi Nono, Alexandre Lunsqui, Giacinto Scelsi, and Harold Meltzer.