amplify: Recent Episodes
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CMC’s podcast on artists active in New Music in Ireland returns with interviews recorded with two of the featured Irish composers at this year’s ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. Recorded in June, the episode features conversations with composers Eric Skytterholm Egan and Rhona Clarke. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes* ISCM World New Music Days 2024 + ISCM * Eric Skytterholm Egan + CMC Composer Page * Rhona Clarke + CMC Composer Page
Music Eric Skytterholm Egan - in some or other Oasis (2014 rev. 2023) (Lapland Chamber Orchestra), live performance at Tórshavn Music School, Tórshavn, Faroe Island, 24 June 2024. Video of concert available here. * Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (2020) (ARS NOVA Copenhagen, conductor Graham Ross), live performance at The Nordic House in Tórshavn, 29 June 2024. Video of concert available here.*
An episode featuring a live panel discussion from Northern Ireland's newest contemporary music festival, TERRAIN in the Accidental Theatre, Belfast featuring Aisling Agnew, Lina Andanovska and Ian Wilson. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
- Aisling Agnew
- Lina Andanovska
- Ian Wilson
- CMC Composer page
Music
All music featured in this episode was performed live at TERRAIN Music Festival on 18 May 2024
- Improvisation 1 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (Drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)
- A Winter Sketchbook - Jane O'Leary - Aisling Agnew (flute) & Petcu-Colan (violin)
- Improvisation 2 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)
- 'Vigour, Rigour, Jigger' - Greg Caffrey - David McCann (cello) Episode Credits
Chief Sound Engineer: Martin Price
Sound Technician: Peter CunninghamPodcast Recording: Emma BainbridgeEditing: Keith Fennell
An episode featuring a panel discussion from the Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin along with contributions from Shane Latimer and Izumi Kimura. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
- Topographies
- Shane Latimer
- Residuum
- Izumi Kimura
- Francis Heery
- Elliot Murphy
- Ellen King
Music
- Shane Latimer - Ten Minutes in the Tumble Dryer
- Shane Latimer, Izumi Kimura, Francis Heery, Ute Wasserman - live performance at Soweiso, Berlin, 23 May 2024
- Ellen King - in situ, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024
- Francis Heery - not knowing what brambles are, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024
Jonathan Grimes talks to violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea about recording and performing Gerald Barry’s music. The conversation was recorded at the 2024 New Music Dublin Festival, and also features extracts from their 2022 album of the composer’s works ‘In the Asylum’.Show Notes* Darragh Morgan * Mary Dullea * Gerald Barry + CMC Composer Page * Gerald Barry in Focus at New Music Dublin 2024
MusicAll music taken from the album In the Asylum, Mode Records
- Baroness von Ritkart: 1 - Clever, noble, but not talented, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
- Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio
- Midday, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
- 1998, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
- Le Vieux Sourd, (Mary Dullea, piano)
Recorded, presented and produced by Jonathan Grimes.
Back in April, as New Music Dublin 2024 was approaching, Evonne Ferguson sat down for a chat with Linda Buckley and Iarla Ó Lionáird to discuss Tuile agus Trá, a new work for the National Symphony Orchestra composed by Linda and dedicated to the memory of her mother, Mary Buckley.
Show Notes
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Linda Buckley
- CMC Composer page
- Iarla Ó Lionáird
- Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- National Symphony Orchestra
- New Music Dublin
- National Concert Hall
- The Creative Space @ CMC
Tuile agus Trá premiered on the 26 April in the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2024. It was broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm for a special episode of RTÉ lyric Live co-presented by Paul Herriott and John Harris. You can listen to the full broadcast here.
Tuile agus Trá was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and New Music Dublin.
Episode Credits
Presented by Evonne Ferguson
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell
Show NotesEpisode Credits
A conversation with composer Brian Irvine, recorded during last month’s New Music Dublin festival. Brian’s work ‘A Call to Arms’ was premiered by Stone Drawn Circles and he speaks to Jonathan Grimes about the background to the work and composing for the group. Show Notes* Brian Irivine + CMC Composer Page * Stone Drawn Cirles
Recorded and presented by Jonathan Grimes.
A performance from composer electronic musician Brian Bridges, recorded at IMRO on 26 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.Show Notes* Brian Bridges * New Music Dublin Exchange
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell.
CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for their funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
A performance from composer and improviser Bianca Gannon, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.
Show Notes
- Bianca Gannon
- New Music Dublin Exchange
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell
CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for their funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
A performance from composer, fiddle and viola player Ultan O’Brien, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.
Show Notes
- Ultan O’Brien
- New Music Dublin Exchange
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell.
CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for its funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
A special live episode of amplify which was recorded at this year's Music Current Festival panel discussion presented in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre. The panel was chaired by CMC's Director, Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
"Here, four composers, academics, researchers and media artists share insights into their personal practices, working methods, compositional techniques, rationale, and the strategies they use to approach compositional problems, and how technology might inform future music developments."
Source: Music Current Festival - Future Music
Panelists:
João Pedro Oliveira (PRT), composer
Amanda Feery (IRL), composer
Lara Gallagher (IRL), composer
Eryk Salvaggio (USA), researcher, new media artist
Music
In order of appearance in the episode:
Daniel McDermott Bezier Lines (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab
Amanda Feery Hireth (2024) - performed by The Black Page Orchestra
Lara Gallagher Leap of Foals (2024) - performed by lovemusic collective
John McLachlan Qualia I (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab
Fergal Dowling Total Harmonic Distortion (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab
All music featured in this episode was recorded live at Music Current 2024 at the Project Arts Centre.
Episode credits
Editing: Keith Fennell
Recording: Garrett Sholdice
In this episode, we hear from Anselm McDonnell about his new release, Kraina, an album drawing on the themes of home and displacement.
Show Notes
Anselm McDonnell (CMC Composer Page)
This interview was recorded on location by Evonne Ferguson at Queen's University, Belfast on 22 March 2024. It was recorded before the launch of Kraina which took place on the same date in the Harty Room in Queen's University, presented by CMC in partnership with Moving On Music, Belfast. The launch featured a performance by Cahal Masterson (piano) and Rebecca Murphy (soprano) of works from this new release.
Music
All music featured is taken from the album, Kraina available to purchase on Bandcamp
In order of appearance in the episode:
Anselm McDonnell - Kraina I. Jeżeli Porcelana
Cahal Masterson - piano
Rebecca Murphy - soprano
Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer
Anselm McDonnell - Kraina II. The House on the Interface
Cahal Masterson - piano
Rebecca Murphy - soprano
Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer
Anselm McDonnell - Her Name is Sorrow
Dermot Dunne - accordion
Joshua Ellicott - tenor
Laura Sinnerton - viola
Richard Brown - recording engineer
Episode Credits
Editing: Keith Fennell
Recording: Evonne Ferguson and Keith Fennell
Show Notes
- We Only Want the Earth
- Listen to episode 1
- Article about the series on RTÉ Culture
- Robert Coleman and Larissa O’Grady - Capturing Sound
- Judith Ring
- CMC Composer Page
- Larissa O’Grady
In this special bonus episode of amplify, Jonathan Grimes speaks to Brian Bridges about his new work, Ramp Waves which he performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Show Notes - Michel Chion: Requiem @ HCMFThis concert commemorated the 50th anniversary of the premier performance of Michel Chion’s Requiem at the Théâtre Récamier in Paris in 1973MusicRamp Waves was recorded live at Belfast Festival on 13 October 2023.This interview was recorded on 22 November 2023 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Editing: Keith Fennell
CMC travelled to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Whilst there we had the great pleasure of interviewing some of Ireland's finest exponents of new music who were performing at the festival. This episode features interviews with Kirkos, Stone Drawn Circles, Jennifer Walshe and Andreas Borregaard
Show Notes
Music
Thank you to the composers, performers, BBC and Music Network for permission to use the recordings featured in this episode. In order of appearance in the episode:
- Excerpts from Kirkos - Beginner's Guide to Slow Travel (2023) performed and composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly. Recorded live on 21 November at HCMF 2023 by Jonathan Grimes.
- Excerpt from Karen Power - can you hear me now???? (2019) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
- Excerpt form Úna Monaghan - In Formation (2023) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
- Excerpt from Jennifer Walshe - Oscailt (2023) performed by Jennifer Walshe (vocalist), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Nick Roth (saxophone) and Panos Ghikas (viola/electronics). Recorded live at Riverbank Arts Centre on 20 September 2023 by The Rise Studio.
Interviews recorded on location at HCMF 2023 by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes.Editing: Keith Fennell and Jonathan Grimes.
A very special live podcast event hosted by CMC at this year's Irish Composition Summer School to mark the recent centenary of James Wilson's birth, which took place in 2022, as well as celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Summer School. Show NotesThis event featured a programme of works by James Wilson, Martin O'Leary and John Buckley performed by Martin O'Leary (piano) and Patrick Burke (clarinet). The event also included a panel of former students, colleagues and friends of James Wilson including Rhona Clarke, Jane O'Leary, John Buckley, Martin O'Leary and John McLachlan, hosted by CMC's Jonathan Grimes.Recorded live at The Square, Irish Institute of Music & Song, Balbriggan, Dublin. MusicLive performances in order of appearanceJohn Buckley Jim Singing (1992) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano)Martin O’Leary Jim’s Air from Jimnopodie (1992) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano)James Wilson Three Play Things for Clarinet (1983) - Performed by Patrick Burke (clarinet)James Wilson Five Preludes for piano Op.87 (1982) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano) Further Notes Recording: Paul LynchEditing and mixing: Keith Fennell
Recorded during the summer, Evonne Ferguson attended RAMP, the Rathmullan Music Project in Donegal for it's inaugural year. Whilst there Evonne spoke with project directors, Rob Casey and Peter Doherty about the inspiration for launching the project as well as speaking to some of the performers and composers taking part in the project including Una Lee, Xenia Pestova Bennett and Rhodri Davis.
Show Notes
- RAMP is an initiative run by the Northern Lights Project in association with Earagail Arts Festival.
Music
Performers and composers in order of appearance on the episode:
- Rob Casey (piano), Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola), David Lacey (percussion),Aonghus McEvoy (guitar)
- Xenia Pestova Bennett (piano)
- Una Lee (voice) & Aonghus McEvoy (guitar)
- Una Lee & Landless (voices)
- Rhodri Davies (harp)
All music featured in this episode of the podcast was recorded live at RAMP 2023.
Recording: Evonne Ferguson
Editing: Keith Fennell
Recorded in July of this year, composer John McLachlan talks to Jonathan Grimes about his CMC Composer Residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, his current approach to composing, and his new album of piano music recorded by pianist Mary Dullea.Show Notes John McLachlan CMC Composer page John McLachlan Awarded CMC Residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris Reflections on the residency Drinking the Stars (Farpoint Recordings)Music John McLachlan - December (Winter Music), Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Le dernier bourgeon de l’avenir John McLachlan - Ockham’s Razor, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - fail ceoil, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - X. Narita, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - XI. Celesta, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - XX. Vita, Mary Dullea (piano)Editing: Keith Fennell
Conductor Sinead Hayes joins Jonathan Grimes to discuss CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra’s recent Composer Lab workshop. Composer Lab is professional development initiative which aims to provide a creative and open environment for composers wishing to deepen their understanding of writing for the forces of a full symphony orchestra.
Show Notes
- Composer Lab
- Composer Lab premiere performance and live broadcast
- Daragh Black Hynes
- Geoff Hannan
- Tom Lane
- Amy Rooney
- Sinead Hayes
- Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble 2023/24 Season
-
NSO & CMC Composer Lab workshop 2023 - musings from the stalls
CMC’s podcast returns for its fifth season with features on CMC’s Culture Night event, curated by CMC Emerging Composer, Paul Scully, composer Robert Coleman’s Timescapes soundwalk as part of IMMA’s Earth Rising Festival, and Ena Brennan’s new opera Breathwork for Irish National Opera. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson, the episode includes contributions from composers Paul Scully, Robert Coleman and Ena Brennan, ornithologist Seán Ronayne, musician Seán Mac Erlaine, director John McIlduff, and soprano Michelle O’Rourke.
Show Notes
- CMC Culture Night
- Paul Scully
- Timescapes soundwalk
- Robert Coleman
- CMC Composer Page
- Seán Ronayne
- Robert Coleman
- Breathwork
- Ena Brennan
- CMC Composer Page
- Ena Brennan
Recording and editing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan GrimesProduction: Jonathan Grimes
Marking his 70th year in 2023, Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson talk to composer Raymond Deane. The conversation was recorded in front on an invited audience at an event in CMC last month, and also includes extracts from live performances of some of his music.
Show Notes
Raymond Deane
CMC Composer Page
Music
All music used was recorded live in CMC on 30 June
Raymond Deane - Excursus (Robert Finegan - saxophone) Raymond Deane - Microforms (Emma Coulthard - flutes, David Appleton - piano) Raymond Deane - 5 Roses in 4 Parts (Bláth Conroy Murphy, Bríd Ní Ghruagáin, Shane Barriscale and Paul McGough)
Recording and editing: Keith Fennell
Recorded in Belfast just before the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble’s final 2022/23 season concert, Jonathan Grimes talks to the group’s outgoing Artistic Director Greg Caffrey and flautist and Concerts Manager Aisling Agnew about the ensemble’s first 10 years. Show Notes * Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble * Greg Caffrey + CMC web site
Music With the exception of the opening music, all music is taken from the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble’s concert at the Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast on 16 June 2023
- Jane O’Leary - Beneath the Dark Blue Waves (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
- Rhona Clarke - Non-stop (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022
- Gráinne Mulvey - LUCA (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022
- John Buckley - Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022
Marking composer Seóirse Bodley’s recent 90th birthday, amplify features a conversation with soprano Sylvia O’Brien about her collaboration with Bodley, and his approach to writing for voice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Seóirse Bodley * Sylvia O’Brien
Music * Seóirse Bodley - St Kevin and the Blackbird from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Isabelle O’Connell), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2023 * Seóirse Bodley - Squall (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2007 * Seóirse Bodley - The Naked Flame (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2007 * Seóirse Bodley - At Banagher from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013 * Seóirse Bodley - At Banagher from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Isabelle O’Connell), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2023 * Seóirse Bodley - Postscript from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013 * Seóirse Bodley - Cavafy from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013
Recorded during New Music Dublin 2023, Jonathan Grimes talks to Andrew Hamilton about his new work ‘Friendly Piece’ which received its premiere at the festival by Crash Ensemble, and Yue Song, one of the composers who participated in the groups’s Crash Works initiative.
Show Notes
- New Music Dublin - Can music be kind?
- Andrew Hamilton
- New Music Dublin - You Heard It First
- Ryan McAdams
- Yue Song
Editing: Keith Fennell.
Thanks to Crash Ensemble for the recordings of Andrew Hamilton’s Friendly Piece and Yue Song’s Senses IV.
A conversation recorded during this year’s New Music Dublin with Crash Ensemble’s principal conductor Ryan McAdams, pianist Eliza McCarthy and composer Donnacha Dennehy about his new piano concerto Limina. Show Notes * New Music Dublin - Limina * Donnacha Dennehy * Eliza McCarthy * Ryan McAdams
Music * Donnacha Dennehy - Limina (Eliza McCarthy, Crash Ensemble, conductor Ryan McAdams), 20 April 2023, New Music Dublin. Thanks to Crash Ensemble for the recording.
Editing: Keith Fennell
A conversation with composer Garrett Sholdice about his new album ‘The Blue Light’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the composer speaks about his musical preoccupations, the process of producing the album, and his approach to composing. Show Notes * Garrett Sholdice: The Blue Light (Ergodos) * Garrett Sholdice
Music * Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: I (Crash Ensemble) * Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: I (Crash Ensemble) * Garrett Sholdice - Gymel (Crash Ensemble: Ed Creedon, Kate Ellis) * Garrett Sholdice - Prelude No. 12 (Michael McHale) * Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: II (Crash Ensemble) * Garrett Sholdice - Und weinen, und lächeln (Michael McHale) * Garrett Sholdice - St Dunstan-in-the-East (Michael McHale, Crash Ensemble)
The first of two episodes with conversations recorded with some of the artists who featured in this year’s New Music Dublin festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson, the episode includes interviews from CMC and Chamber Choir Ireland’s Choral Sketches workshop, composers Áine Mallon and Ailís Ní Ríain, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard.Show Notes Ailís Ní Ríain: The Last Time I Died (NMC Recordings) New Music Dublin Choral Sketches 2023 Áine Mallon CMC Composer Page Ailís Ní Ríain CMC Composer Page Elizabeth HilliardMusic Ailís Ní Ríain - Seahorse (Long snouted) All other music from Choral Sketches workshop and Chamber Choir Ireland Concert at New Music DublinEditing: Keith Fennell
A discussion with Stephen Graham, Head of School of Arts and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmith’s University of London about new music and its relationship to the economy.
Show Notes
- Stephen Graham
- Becoming Noise Music
- Twentieth-Century Music in the West
- Composing Capital
Music
- Seán Clancy - Sign
- New Music New Ireland four
A live podcast discussion with composers Robert Curgenven, Karen Power, Judith Ring, and Jürgen Simpson on the impact of climate change on new music and how musicians are responding to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss through their work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and recorded live during New Music Dublin 2023.Show Notes* New Music Dublin * We Only Want the Earth radio series * Robert Curgenven + Dublin Open Form Pavilion of Air * Karen Power * Judith Ring * Jurgen Simpson
Recorded on 21 April 2023 in the Iveagh Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Sound: Keith Fennell
Thanks to New Music Dublin and the National Concert Hall for hosting this event
A live podcast recorded during New Music Dublin 2023 with some of the composers and artists featured at this year’s festival. Composers Úna Monaghan, Kevin Volans and Susan Geaney, and conductor David Brophy join special guest American broadcaster and writer John Schaefer (New Sounds, WNYC) and CMC’s Jonathan Grimes in conversation.Show Notes* New Music Dublin * John Schaefer * Úna Monaghan * Kevin Volans + CMC Composer Page * Susan Geaney * Quiet Music Ensemble * David Brophy
Recorded on 22 April 2023 in the Iveagh Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Sound: Keith Fennell
Thanks to New Music Dublin and the National Concert Hall for hosting this event
A discussion recorded during this year’s Finding a Voice festival in Clonmel featuring composers Jacqueline Fletcher, Áine Mallon and Gráinne Mulvey. This discussion, which took place on 11 March 2023, is introduced and chaired by CMC Director, Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes* Finding a Voice Festival * Áine Mallon + CMC Composer Page * Gráinne Mulvey * Jacqueline Fletcher wins Finding a Voice 2023 Emerging Composer Competition
Composer Deirdre Gribbin talks to Jonathan Grimes about composing music for the film documentary, ‘Stolen’, writing her new cello concerto, the importance of narrative in her music, and her thoughts on the plight of women composers today.Show Notes* Deirdre Gribbin + CMC Composer Page
Music Deirdre Gribbin - Hearing your Genes Evolve (Spero Quartet), live recording from the Hugh Lane Gallery, 26 February 2023 * Deirdre Gribbin - music from the film Stolen (director Margo Harkin) * Deirdre Gribbin - extract from Embers, a radio drama starring Patrick Stewart adapted and directed by Lou Stein from a BBC Radio 3 Drama production by Lou Stein Associates * Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Song (Fidelio Trio), NMC Recordings*
Episode 81 features highlights from the Belfast launch in January 2023 of CMC’s promotional album, New Music::New Ireland 4, and conversations with the composers who participated in Composer Lab, a professional development initiative delivered in partnership by the National Symphony Orchestra and CMC, in association with RTE lyric fm.Show Notes* new music::new Ireland 4 showcase launch + New Music::New Ireland 4 * Amy Rooney * Karen Power + CMC Composer Page * Ian Wilson + CMC Composer Page * John Buckley + CMC Composer Page * Piers Hellawell + CMC Composer Page * Judith Ring + CMC Composer Page * Anselm McDonnell + CMC Composer Page * Composer Lab 2022 * Seán Ó Dálaigh * Adam McCartney
MusicAll music taken from the New Music::New Ireland 4 Showcase launch on 26 January 2023 and the Composer Lab 2022 premiere performance and broadcast on 9 January 2023
amplify returns with the first episode of 2023. Featuring Roger Doyle on his work and his recent album, ‘Finnegans Wake - Suite Of Affections Volume 2’, and a conversation recorded in Cork last December with Linda Buckley on her new work for the Ficino String Quartet, ‘Circuit Bend’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.Show Notes* Roger Doyle + CMC Composer Page * Roger Doyle - Bandcamp + Finnegans Wake - Suite of Affections Volume 2 * New Music::New Ireland 4 * Linda Buckley + CMC Composer Page * Ficino Quartet - Triskel * National String Quartet Foundation
Music Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell) * Roger Doyle - Dreamwings Folded (instrumental) * Roger Doyle - Is That The Poolbeg Flasher * Roger Doyle - Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth * Roger Doyle - Nova Nuvoletta (instrumental) * Roger Doyle - Recess * Roger Doyle - This The Way To The Museyroom * Roger Doyle - Jymes Wishes To Hear * Roger Doyle - And Can it Be * Linda Buckley - Circuit Bend (Ficino Quartet), recorded live on 11 December 2023, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall * Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell)*
Recorded this September, Sebastian Adams talks to Jonathan Grimes about his experiences on the Cursus programme at IRCAM in Paris.Show Notes* Sebastian Adams + CMC Composer Page * Cursus Programme * stolenmusic.org
MusicAll Music by Sebastian Adams
This week, amplify marks the 25th anniversary of the Crash Ensemble with interviews with Artistic Director, Kate Ellis as well as founding member and the ensemble’s first Artistic Director, Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show NotesCrash Ensemble[reactions]Donnacha DennehyMusicBarry O’Halpin - LethargarianÉna Brennan - RunawayDavid Fennessy - JackBarry O’Halpin - WingformSam Perkin - Children in the UniverseBarry O’Halpin - Wingform
Episode 77 features conversations with composer Neil Martin and pianist Ruth McGinley about their album ‘Aura’, a collection of Irish airs written and arranged by Neil Martin, and Neil O’Connor AKA Ordnance Survey on his latest release ‘Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes* Neil Martin + CMC Composer Page * Ruth McGinley * Neil O’Connor + CMC Composer Page * 20:31 - Spectrogram of a violin playing a note and then a perfect fifth above it with the shared partials highlighted by the white dashes (harmonic spectra)
Music Neil O’Connor - Bog Braon * Aura - Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin * Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined - Neil O’Connor*
Production and editing - Keith Fennell
amplify #76 - new music::new Ireland Four launch
Recorded at this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, episode 76 includes conversations with some of the artists on CMC’s new promotional album, new music::new Ireland Four. Featuring flautist Lina Andonovska, composers Rhona Clarke, Anselm McDonnell, and Ian Wilson, the episode also includes an interview with hcmf Artistic Director Graham McKenzie on the festival’s three-year partnership with Culture Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * new music::new Ireland four * Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - hcmf * Ulysses Journey 2022 at hcmf * Stephen Graham * Anselm McDonnell * Lina Andonovska * Rhona Clarke * Ian Wilson
Music * Nick Roth - A Loved A Long (Lina Andonovska) * Anselm McDonnell - Engines of Babel (Crash Ensemble) * Judith Ring - A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska) * Rhona Clarke - Seen from Above (Adam Walker (fl), Hélène Clément (viola), Agnès Clément (harp) * Ian Wilson - Wild is the Wind (Gareth Davis (bass clarinet)
Episode 75 features a conversation with Jane O’Leary about her work for piano and orchestra ‘Unfolding Soundscapes’, premiered last month by Finghin Collins and the National Symphony Orchestra, and Matthew Whiteside and David Fennessy on ‘The Night With’ concert in Belfast, which featured a new commission from David Fennessy for the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * The Night With + Robinson Panoramic Quartet - Belfast * David Fennessy + CMC Composer Page * Robinson Panoramic Quartet * Matthew Whiteside + CMC Composer Page * Jane O’Leary + CMC Composer Page
Music * Jane O’Leary - Unfolding Soundscapes (Finghin Collins - piano, National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery) * David Fennessy - Slate (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022) * Matthew Whiteside - Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022)
Production and editing: Keith Fennell
An episode featuring conversations with some of the creative team behind composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell’s cantata based on material from UCD Archives on the Irish Civil War. Featuring contributions from the composer, Principal Archivist at UCD Archives Kate Manning, the work’s librettist Ed Vulliamy, and Kellie Hughes. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes
Civil War Cantata Anne Marie O’Farrell
CMC composer page
UCD Archives Ed Vulliamy
Music All excerpts taken from premiere recording of Who’d Ever Think it Would Come to This? at O’Reilly Hall, UCD on 30 September 2022. Colette Delahunt (Soprano), Sharon Carty (Mezzo), Dean Power (Tenor) and Rory Musgrave (Baritone), Resurgam (Artistic Director Mark Dulley), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Ciarán Crilly. Recording by RTÉ lyric fm.
CMC’s podcast on new Irish music returns featuring conversations with composer Timothy Cape about his work and recent premiere at the Venice Biennale, flautist Aisling Agnew and Chilean journalist and composer Alvaro Gallegos on Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble’s recent concert in Chile, and composer Ryan Molloy on attending the ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Timothy Cape + CMC composer page + Angela Wai-Nok Hui + labiennale.org * Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble * Musicahora Festival * ISCM * Ryan Molloy + CMC composer page
Music * Timothy Cape - Still Drowsy (Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, ARS LUDI) * Timothy Cape - Sorry for the late reply * Greg Caffrey - Tout (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell) * John Buckley - Solo Fantasias (Aisling Agnew) * Jane O’Leary - eather headed, frail, summoning (after Syrinx) (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell) * Ryan Molloy - Ogham (Christchurch Youth Orchestra, conductor Helen Renaud)
amplify #72 - ‘Future Music?’: a discussion from Music Current 2022
Recorded in April as part of the Music Current 2022 festival, this episode features a discussion entitled ‘Future Music?’ on musical life after the pandemic. Introduced and chaired by CMC Director Evonne Ferguson, the discussion, recorded at the Project Arts Centre in front of an audience, includes composer Natacha Diels, Music Current artistic director Fergal Dowling, and Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn. Show Notes * FUTURE MUSIC? event details * musiccurrent.ie * Fergal Dowling * Journal of Music * Natacha Diels
Conversations with some of the people involved in Beál’s production of ‘Slow Recognition’, a new chamber opera by David Bremner, director Hélène Montague and designer John Comiskey which premieres this month at Unit 44 in Stoneybatter, Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the episode features contributions from David Bremner, Hélène Montague, and singers Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Rory Musgrave and Elizabeth Hilliard. Show Notes * Slow Recognition, 13–16 July 2022 * Unit 44 (Kirkos Ensemble) * Beál * David Bremner + davidbremner.net + CMC Composer Page * Naomi Louisa O’Connell * Rory Musgrave * Elizabeth Hilliard
amplify #70 - Ulysses Journey 2022 in Budapest and Paris
A special episode recorded last month in Budapest and Paris featuring conversations with some of the artists and people behind CMC’s Ulysses Journey 2022 project. The episode includes contributions from Katalin Koltai, Benjamin Dwyer, Elizabeth Hilliard, Greg Caffrey, Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Darragh Black Hynes and Linda O’Shea Farren. Show Notes * Ulysses Journey 2022 + Concert at Budapest Music Center + Ulysses Journey 2022 Film Screenings at FUGA + Ulysses Journey 2022 - Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris * Katalin Koltai * Benjamin Dwyer * Budapest Music Center * FUGA * Elizabeth Hilliard * Greg Caffrey * Centre Culturel Irlandais * Daragh Black Hynes
Music Recordings performed by Katalin Koltai taken from concert on 15 June 2022 at Budapest Music Centre (BMC), recorded by Andras Kegl (BMC)
- Gráinne Mulvey - Soft Morning City!
- Benjamin Dwyer - Hommage á Ligeti
- Greg Caffrey - The Private Consciousness of Molly Bloom (with Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano)
- Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus
Cover photo: Andrea Felvegi
The final instalment from this year’s New Music Dublin 2022 festival features conversations with Amanda Feery about Creative Lab, a composition programme for young people from traditionally underrepresented groups, and Sam Perkin on his new work for Crash Ensemble and Diamanda La Berge Dramm, ‘Children in the Universe’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * New Music Dublin * Creative Lab * Amanda Feery + CMC Composer Page * Sam Perkin + CMC Composer Page + Crash Ensemble - Putting it into music
Music * Sam Perkin - Flow * Sam Perkin - Children in the Universe (Crash Ensemble, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, conductor Peter Biloen)
A selection of conversations recorded during this year’s New Music Dublin festival. The episode features interviews with the participating composers in CMC and Chamber Choir Ireland’s Choral Sketches project, the Crash Ensemble’s Crash Works event, and interviews with New Music Dublin festival artistic director John Harris, and Ergodos Records co-artistic director, Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes
New Music Dubin Choral Sketches Chamber Choir Ireland Peter Moran
petermoranmusic.com CMC composer page
Eoghan Desmond
www.eoghandesmond.com CMC composer page
David Bremner
davidbremner.net CMC composer page
Kerry Hagan
kerrylhagan.net CMC composer page
Crash Works Anselm McDonnell
anselmguitar.co.uk CMC composer page
Peter Biloen Amy Rooney Ergodos Totemic NARLI Garrett Sholdice
Music
Ian Wilson - Totemic (Alex Petcu, Nathan Sherman) Recordings taken from Choral Sketches workshop Recording taken from Crash Works open session Benedict Schlepper Connolly - One Thing I Know
The second of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion with George Higgs and live performance of his multisensory piece ‘Music for 5 Silent Poems’, a work commissioned by New Music Dublin for live and online performance via Instagram. Show Notes * New Music Dubin * Music for 5 Silent Poems * George Higgs + georgehiggs.com + CMC Composer Page * Watch the live performance on Instagram (from 15 mins onwards)
Music * Music for 5 Silent Poems performed live by George Higgs (sampler), Jessica Kennedy (sign language poems), Billy O’Brien (piano), Rossa O’Neil (trombone), Brian Kelly (double bass)
Live recording: Keith Fennell Editing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes
The first of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion on Joyce and new music and CMC’s Ulysses Journey Project with composers Benjamin Dwyer and Frank Corcoran, and CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren. The episode was recorded at the National Concert Hall on 29 April. Show Notes * New Music Dubin * Benjamin Dwyer + benjamindwyer.com + CMC Composer Page * Frank Corcoran + frankcorcoran.com + CMC Composer Page * Ulysses Journey + amplify #59
Music * Frank Corcoran - Quasi Una Missa
Live recording: Keith Fennell Editing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes
Episode 65 pays tribute to composer John Kinsella, who passed away last November at the age of 89. The episode features an in depth contribution from Séamas de Barra, author of a forthcoming book on Kinsella’s music, as well as contributions from Séamus Crimmins, Gerry Keenan and Katherine Hunka about the composer’s life and work. Presented by Evonne Ferguson, with interviews by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes * John Kinsella * Irish Times Obituary * Seamás de Barra - The Symphonies of John Kinsella, doctoral thesis * Cross Currents radio series
Music * Symphony No. 6 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * Prelude and Toccata (Irish Chamber Orchestra) * Symphony No. 9 (Irish Chamber Orchestra) * Homage a Clarance (Irish Chamber Orchestra) * Symphony No. 4 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * String Quartet No. 3 (RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet) * Symphony No. 1 (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Albert Rosen) * Symphony No. 3 - III (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * Symphony No. 11 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean Deroyer * Symphony No. 7 - Epilogue (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney) * Montage 2 (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce.) * A Selected Life (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce) * String Quartet No. 3 (RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet) * Symphony No. 4 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * Symphony No. 3: II (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * Symphony No. 3: I (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn) * Symphony No. 3: V (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
Prodcution and editing: Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell
A conversation with composer Rhona Clarke about her new album ‘Sempiternam’. The album features a selection of the composer’s choral works composed over a 30-year period performed by State Choir Latvija. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Sempiternam + Purchase via CMC Shop * Rhona Clarke + www.rhonaclarke.com + CMC composer page * State Choir Latvija * Subscribe to amplify podcast
Music * Rhona Clarke - Requiem: In Paradisum (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - The Kiss (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Requiem: Pie Jesu (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Rorate Caeli (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Bizet - The Pearl Fishers Duet * Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - The Kiss (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Salve Regina (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Ave Atque Vale (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - Requiem: Introit (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) * Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais)
Pianist Aileen Cahill shares three recordings from Anna Murray, Gráinne Mulvey and Linda Buckley from a recent playlist, entitled ‘Mná in Music’, which she curated for International Women’s Day. Show Notes * Aileen Cahill - CMC Scholar-in-Residence 2022 * Listen to the full playlist
Music * Jane O’Leary - Palette of Preludes (Aileen Cahill) * Anna Murray - Azuma-asobi /東遊 * Grainne Mulvey - Steel Grey Splinters (Isabelle O’Connell) Also available on commercial release here * Linda Buckley - Numarimur (Elizabeth Hilliard) Also available on commercial release here
A conversation with musicologist Barbara Dignam about Roger Doyle’s magum opus ‘Babel’. Recorded last year, this episode continues amplify’s occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes * Barbara Dignam + Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell’s Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy * Roger Doyle + CMC Composer Page + rogerdoyle.com + Bandcamp page * Babel
Music * Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music * Why Is Kilkenny So Good from Rapid Eye Movements * Thalia * Rapid Eye Movements (Part 1) * The Entertainment and Leisure Pursuits Show * Seresa III from Fairlight Memories * The Morning Show Part 2 - Earth at Full-Moon * Lettuce Is My Hair Well Watered * Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music * The Morning Show Part 1 * The Stairwell Part 1 * Vertical Fissures in Stone * Mr. Brady’s Room * Back in Time from Time Machine * The Morning Show Part 1 * Farewell to Bray
Editing and production: Keith Fennell
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Episode 61 features conversations with composer Ailís Ní Ríain and pianist Yonit Kosovske about ‘Watershed’, a song cycle composed by Ailís Ní Ríain for Yonit Kosovske and contralto Julie Comparini. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Watershed * Ailís Ní Ríain + CMC Composer Page + ailis.info * Yonit Kosovske * Julie Comparini * Jessica Brown + And Say * amplify episode #60 * amplify episode #59
Music All music taken from Ailís Ní Ríain's Watershed performed by Yonit Kosovske and Julie Comparini. Listen to and purchase the album here.
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Production and editing: Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell
Episode 60 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features an interview with composer Raymond Deane about his recent work for piano quartet ‘Vayu Vata’. Premiered by the Danish-based Rudersdal Chamber Players in January, the episode also includes a contribution from the group’s violinist Christine Pryn about the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. CMCIreland · amplify #60 - Raymond Deane on his recent work for piano quartet 'Vayu Vata'
Show Notes * Raymond Deane + CMC Composer Page + raymonddeane.com + YouTube Channel * Christine Pryn * Rudersdal Chamber Players * Prayer for Peace
Music * Raymond Deane - Violin Concerto (Christine Pryn, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerhard Markson * Raymond Deane - Vayu Vata (Rudersdal Chamber Players) * Raymond Deane - Oboe Concerto (Matthew Manning, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce) * Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2
CMC’s podcast returns for 2022 with an episode on CMC and Centre Culturel Irlandais’ Ulysses Journey 2022 programme of new music and film screenings marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce. Featuring contributions from CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren, composers Darragh Kelly and Ailís Ní Ríain, and guitarist Katalin Koltai. Show Notes * Ulysses Journey 2022 * Watch the specially commissioned music films on YouTube (available for a limited time only) * Darragh Kelly + darragh-kelly.com + CMC Composer Page * Penelope + Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair * Ailís Ní Ríain + ailis.info + CMC Composer Page * I will see if I can see + Jim Henry * Katalin Koltai
Music * Ultan O’Brien - cling(ing) like fire * Darragh Kelly - Penelope * Ailís Ní Ríain - I will see if I can see * Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus (Katalin Koltai - guitar), archival recording of premiere on 4 February 2022
The final episode in amplify’s mini series featuring highlights and reflections on 2021. Composer and artistic director of Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Greg Caffrey talks to CMC’s Jonathan Grimes about the group’s debut album, ‘A Terrible Beauty’. Show Notes * Greg Caffrey + gregcaffrey.com + CMC Composer Page * Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Music All music taken from Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble album A Terrible Beauty
- Grainne Mulvey - Luca
- Amy Rooney - Phosphenes
- Greg Caffrey - A Terrible Beauty
To mark the end of 2021, CMC’s amplify podcast invited some guests to reflect on their year. For this episode, pianist and Fidelio Trio member Mary Dullea shares some of her musical highlights of 2021. Show Notes * Mary Dullea * Hormoz Farhat + amplify #49 - Hormoz Farhat (1928–2021) * David Fennessy + CMC Composer Page + Universal Edition Composer Page * Chamber Music on Valentia * Raymond Deane + raymonddeane.com + CMC Composer Page
Music * Hormoz Farhat - Piano Sonata No. 2: Movt III Molto Animato * David Fennessy - Piano Trio no. 2: In Memoriam Spencer Boney Movt II (Fidelio Trio) * Raymond Deane - Scintillae II ‘Seven fragments from a pandemic’ (Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea)
The third in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn selects recordings from Gerald Barry, Jane Deasy, Dave Flynn and Anne-Marie O’Farrell as his recorded highlights of the year.
Show Notes
Toner Quinn Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - Irish National Opera
Review in Journal of Music
Jane Deasy Dave Flynn Anne-Marie O’Farrell
Music
Gerald Barry - Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - Signum Classics Jane Deasy - Thawing Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3: The Keening from the album ‘Irish Minimalism’ Anne-Marie O’Farrell - AirDance from the album ‘Embrace’
The second in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Soprano Elizabeth Hilliard talks about some of her musical highlights of the year including the launch of the album of Gráinne Mulvey’s piece for voice and electronics ‘Great Women’. Show Notes * Elizabeth Hilliard * Great Women - Gráinne Mulvey * Dublin International Chamber Music Festival * Sundays@Noon concert - Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe * How the World Begins Again
Music * Gráinne Mulvey - Great Women * Gráinne Mulvey - Within - Without (Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe)
To mark the end of 2021, we invite a number of guests to choose some of their musical highlights of the year. For the first of these mini episodes, composer Linda Buckley talks about some of the pieces she had premiered during the year and, through hindsight, how her experiences of lockdown restrictions have influenced some of these works. Show Notes * Linda Buckley + lindabuckley.org + CMC Composer Page * West Wicklow Festival + Performance of ‘The Finite Air’ at the West Wicklow Festival by Rachel Kelly and Fiachra Garvey * Nordic Viola * Ghost in the Throat live show * Roisin Imagined * Linda Buckley elected to Aosdána
Music * Exploding Stars (Darragh Morgan) from the album ‘From Ocean’s Floor’, NMC Recordings * The Finite Air (Rachel Kelly (voice), Fiachra Garvey (piano) * Aud (Nordic Viola) * Ghost in the Throat
Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year’s Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O’Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Music Current * Fergal Dowling + CMC composer page + fergaldowling.com * Music Current Soloists * Neil O’Connor + Ordnance Survey - Field Work + CMC composer page + neiloconnor.org * Elis Czerniak * Lina Andonovska - Public Privacy * Richard Craig * Richard Craig - Vale * Seán Ó Dálaigh + CMC composer page + seanodalaigh.com
Music * Ordnance Survey - Earlsfort Terrace 1991 * Neil O’Connor - Frisson / Rapture (Paul Roe, Neil O’Connor) * Elis Czerniak - and the Acceptance of Death (Joe O’Farrell, Paul Roe, Ilse de Ziah) * Ordnance Survey - Belfield May 1985 * *David Fennessy - Bridge (Lina Andonovska) * Seán Ó Dálaigh - Landscape II (Richard Craig) * Fergal Dowling - Double (Richard Craig)**
*Recordings taken from Music Current 2021 festival
Episode 52 features a conversation with composer and violist Garth Knox about his recent work and approach to composing, recorded at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in September. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson and edited by Keith Fennell. Show Notes * Choral Sketches * Malachy Robinson - The Irish Double Bass * John Kinsella RIP * Garth Knox + garthknox.org + CMC composer page * Finding the source exhibition at Centre Culturel Irlandais * September Me festival * Quartet for One for Lawrence Power * Lockdown Blues * Viola Spaces
Music * Viola Spaces Duo no. 5 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) * D’amore vespers (Garth Knox) * Quartet for One (Lawrence Power) * Lockdown Blues (Ragazze Quartet) * Viola Spaces Duo no. 1 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) * Viola Spaces Duo no. 4 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) * Air and Ground (Garth Knox, Concorde)
Show notes * Michael Gallen + CMC composer page + michaeljgallen.com * Straymaker * Elsewhere at the Abbey Theatre (15–20 November 2021) * Tom Creed * Daire Halpin * Fiona Monbet
Music Music taken from the concert performance of the opera at St Maeldoid’s Church, Castleblayney in November 2019 and during rehearsals in Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney in October 2021.
Episode 50 of CMC's podcast 'amplify' features a special episode produced for the 2021 City of Derry International Choir Festival. Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson speak to Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond, two of the Irish composers whose work is programmed in this year's festival.
Show notes
City of Derry International Choir Festival
2021 programme 2021 podcast programme
Eoghan Desmond
eoghandesmond.com CMC composer page
Elaine Agnew
elaineagnew.com CMC composer page Remarkable Project
Music
Eoghan Desmond
Oxen of the Sun (UCD Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley) Thomas Morley - Nolo mortem peccatoris Bach - Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 No.1 The Morningstar (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier) This is My Prayer to Thee (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley) Mother Goose’s Melodies (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier) Amra Choluim Chille – A Dheascabháil agus a Shaol (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley)
Elaine Agnew
I am a Miracle (European Union Chamber Orchestra, St Colman’s College Choir, conductor Elaine Agnew) The God of Rain (RTÉ Cór na nÓg, Mary Amond O’Brien) Remarkable (Remarkable Voices, Codetta, Ulster Orchestra, Donal Doherty) Child Within (Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Bernie Sherlock) Turnabout (Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir and Belfast Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lynsey Callaghan)
A tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin Hormoz Farhat, who died in August of this year, featuring an interview with the composer from 2020 by Linda O'Shea Farren, as well as contributions from composers Amir Tafreshipour and Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show notes * Hormoz Farhat + CMC Composer Page + Wikipedia Page + Irish Times Obituary * Amir Tafreshipour * Donnacha Dennehy
Music * Piano Sonata No. 2: II (Mary Dullea) * Piano Sonata No. 1: III (Mary Dullea) * Piano Sonata No. 1: I (Mary Dullea * Piano Sonata No. 1: IV (Mary Dullea * String Quartet No. 1: Mov. 4 (St Petersburg String Quartet) * Piano Sonata No. 2: III (Mary Dullea) * Nouveau Rivage (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
CMC's podcast amplify returns with a special episode from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Jonathan Grimes talks to the current composer resident David Coonan, and CCI director Nora Hickey M'Sichili on the annual residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris for CMC represented composers. Evonne Ferguson talks to the 2020 composer resident recipient Finola Merivale. Show notes * David Coonan + Residency annoucement * Centre Culturel Irlandais * Finola Merivale + CMC Composer Page + Residency annoucement * 2022 composer residency annoucement
Music David Coonan * Verballing - Irish National Opera * Vain Prayer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre-André Valade * Requiescat - Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London, Colm Carey * Butterfly Songlines - ConTempo Quartet
Nora Hickey M'Sichili - Centre Culturel Irlandais * Greg Caffrey - Garden Of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) * Michael Gallen - Barricades (from Elsewhere)
Finola Merivale * The Language of Mountains is Rain (Adrianne Pope (vn), Min Park (vn), Gabriel Taubman (va), Doublas Machiz (vc)) * des os (Catherine Sikora) * Do You Hear Me Now? (Desdemona Ensemble)
In the final episode of the current series, we hear a selection of audio reflections from some composers and musicians on the past year. Roger Doyle, Judith Ring, Isabelle O’Connell, John McLachlan, Frank Corcoran, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Jenn Kirby all provide insights into their creative lives over the past 15 months and look ahead to the future. Show notes * Roger Doyle + rogerdoyle.com/ + CMC composer page * Judith Ring + judithring.com + CMC composer page * John McLachlan + johnmclachlan.org + CMC composer page * Frank Corcoran + frankcorcoran.com + CMC composer page * Anne-Marie O’Farrell + annemarieofarrell + CMC composer page
Music * Jenn Kirby - Awake * Roger Doyle - Obstinato * Roger Doyle - The Sea Would Not Have Us from iGirl * Judith Ring - Is It Over Yet? (Lina Andonovska) * Judith Ring - The Wood Between the Worlds (Martin Johnson) * Judith Ring - Solo set Valentia Island 2018 * Andrew Hamilton - O.A.I.R. (Isabelle O’Connell) * John McLachlan - Vela X * John McLachlan - Fanfaron * John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana) * Frank Corcoran - Rhapsodic Bowing for 8 Celli (Martin Johnson, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Frank Corcoran - Nine Looks at Pierrot (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) * Anne-Marie O’Farrell - Eitilt (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Jenn Kirby - Awake * Jenn Kirby - Arlene Solo
Episode 46 features composer Deirdre Gribbin on her latest commission ‘Dark Matter Hunting’ from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and her long association with the Bantry-based festival, and artistic director Francis Humphrys on this year’s programme and the challenges of putting on an online festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. CMCIreland · amplify #46 - Deirdre Gribbin & West Cork Chamber Music Festival's Francis Humphrys
Show notes * West Cork Chamber Music Festival + Festival progamme + Pacifica Quartet concert featuring Deirdre Gribbin world online premiere + Citizens of Everywhere concert featuring Finola Merivale ‘The silent sweep as you stand still’ * Deirdre Gribbin + deirdregribbin.com/ + CMC composer page
Music Visit West Cork Chamber Music’s archive for a comprehensive collection of past performances from the festival
- Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Sound (Fidelio Trio)
- Deirdre Gribbin - Amazing Face (Vanbrugh Quartet)
- Deirdre Gribbin - Devil’s Dwealing Place (Nurit Stark)
- Deirdre Gribbin - Kindersang (Caroline Melzer, Nurit Stark)
- Deirdre Gribbin - Dark Matter Hunting (Pacifica Quartet)
- Finola Merivale - The silent sweep as you stand still (Mairéad Hickey, Ella van Poucke)
- John Kinsella - Prelude and Toccata (Vanbrugh Quartet)
- Emma O’Halloran - Dying is a Wild Night (Quatuor Zaïde)
- Seán Doherty - String Quartet No.3 ‘The Devil’s Dream’ (Vanbrugh Quartet)
Continuing with a new occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past, senior lecturer at TU Dublin Mark Fitzgerald talks to CMC’s Jonathan Grimes about Gerald Barry’s 1991–2 opera, ‘Triumph of Beauty and Deceit’.
Show notes
Mark Fitzgerald Gerald Barry
CMC composer page Schott Music page
Triumph of Beauty and Deceit
CMC Catalogue page Schott Music page
Music
Gerald Barry - Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Nicholas Clapton (Ct-solo), Denis Lakey (Ct-solo), Richard Edgar-Wilson (T-solo), Adrian Clarke (Bar-solo), Stephen Richardson (B-solo), Composers Ensemble, conductor Diego Masson)
This week’s podcast features a new occasional series, where with the help of expert guests, we take a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past. For the first episode in the series, composer, guitarist and Professor of Music at Middlesex University, London Benjamin Dwyer takes a look at concerto works by Raymond Deane, Jane O’Leary, and Kevin Volans.
Show notes * Benjamin Dwyer + CMC Composer Page + benjamindwyer.com/ + amplify 18 * Raymond Deane + CMC Composer Page + raymonddeane.com/ * Kevin Volans + CMC Composer Page + Publisher page
Music * Benjamin Dwyer - Guitar Concerto No. 1 for Guitar and Strings (Benjamin Dwyer, Irish Chamber Orchestra) * Benjamin Dwyer - Concerto No. 2 for Guitar and Orchestra (Fabio Zanon, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor William Eddins.) * Raymond Deane - Concerto for Oboe and Large Orchestra (Matthew Manning, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce) + CMC Library Record * Kevin Volans - Concerto for Uilleann Pipes and Orchestra (Gol Na mBan San Ár) (David Power, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) * Jane O’Leary - string alive (Jane O’Leary,RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Houlihan)
The final episode in a short series covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April. In this episode, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes speak to composer Rhona Clarke, Kirkos members Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, and Susan Geaney, and New Music Dublin festival director John Harris. Show notes * New Music Dublin * Rhona Clarke + CMC composer page * Kirkos Ensemble * Sebastian Adams + CMC composer page * Susan Geaney * Robert Coleman
Music * Rhona Clarke - A Bit of Nonsense (Chamber Choir Ireland, conductor Andrew Synnott) * Kirkos - For Private Use * Robert Coleman - 100 Metres (Crash Ensemble) * Ellen King - Images and Sensations (Crash Ensemble, conductor Ryan McAdams)
The third in a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April. CMC’s Jonathan Grimes speaks to Crash Ensemble Artistic Director and cellist, Kate Ellis, and composer and guitarist with Crash Ensemble, Barry O’Halpin, about his work ‘Wingform’ which was premiered by the group during the festival. Show notes * New Music Dublin * Kate Ellis * Crash Ensemble * reactions * Free State 13 * Barry O’Halpin
Music All works performed by Crash Ensemble
- Rachael Lavelle - This Is The Space Between Your Hand and Mine
- Gemma Doherty - Middle Distance
- Seán Ó Dálaigh - Proximity Studies
- Darragh Kelly - Deep Model Worker
- Amy Rooney - Pendulums and Sundials
- Barry O’Halpin - Wingform
In a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April, CMC talks to some of the composers, musicians and other key people involved in the festival. In this episode, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes speak to composers Natasa Paulberg, Anselm McDonnell, and Deirdre McKay, New Music Dublin festival director John Harris, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Earlsfort Brass Quintet horn player, Cormac Ó hAodáin, and RTÉ Concert Orchestra General Manager Joe Csibi. Show notes * New Music Dublin * Natasa Paulberg * Anselm McDonnell + CMC Composer Page * Cormac Ó hAodáin * RTÉ Concert Orchestra * Deirdre McKay
Music * Natasa Paulberg - Atomic Hope (RTÉ Concert Orchestra) * Anselm McDonnell - Cross Purposes (Crash Ensemble)) * Anselm McDonnell - Rasp (Earlsfort Brass Quintet) * Deirdre McKay Postcards from a Fragile Planet (Laura Bowler - voice, Ruth Morley - flute)
In a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April, CMC talks to some of the composers, musicians and other key people involved in the festival. In this episode, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes speak to soprano Michelle O’Rourke, composer Judith Ring, New Music Dublin festival director John Harris, composer and artistic director of Evlana, Siobhan Cleary, and composers Anne Marie O’Farrell, John McLachlan and Deirdre Gribbin. Show notes * New Music Dublin * Michelle O’Rourke * Judith Ring + CMC Composer Page * Siobhán Cleary + CMC Composer Page * Anne Marie O’Farrell + CMC Composer Page * John McLachlan * Deirdre Gribbin
Music * Irene Buckley - Awakening (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) * Ed Bennett - Journal Songs 2020 (Michelle O’Rourke, Richard Allen) * Judith Ring - Swelt Belly at Dawn (Paul Roe, Keith Pascoe, Adrian Mantu) * Gráinne Mulvey - Sun of Orient Crimson with Excess of Light (Isabelle O’Connell) * Jane Deasey - Supple Music (Adrian Mantu) * John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana) * John Buckley - Constellations (Bill Dowdall) * Raymond Deane - Tristia (Evlana) * Anne-Marie O’Farrell - Eitilt (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) * Deirdre Gribbin - Scattered Earth (Michelle O’Rourke, Richard Allen) * John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana)
Episode 39 features a conversation with pianist Michael McHale about his work and upcoming online concert for Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘We Sing for the Future’ which takes place from 14–18 April 2021. Show notes * Michael McHale * We Sing for the Future Festival * Laurence Crane
Music * Garrett Sholdice - Am Koppenplatz * Cornelius Cardew - The Croppy Boy * Arvo Part - Hymn to a Great City * Simon O’Connor - Self Portrait * Áine Mallon - Raindrops Prelude * Philip Hammond - Midnight Shadows * Philip Hammond - Piano Concerto (Mov 3) * Garrett Sholdice - Piano Concerto * My Lagan Love (arr Michael McHale)
Episode 38 of CMC’s forthnighly podcast features conversations with composer and conductor Norah Walsh, recently announced as the winner of the 2021 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition, and composer, pianist and lecturer Ryan Molloy, whose new album ‘tempered’ for uilleann pipes and piano was released in February.
Show notes
Norah Walsh
CMC composer page Norah Walsh wins Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition Peter Sirr (poet) Mellow Tonics Choir
Music
Her (Edel Shannon, Sinead Conway, Norah Walsh) The Shoe Box Coffin (Mellow Tonics)
Ryan Molloy
ryanmolloy.ie CMC composer page Bandcamp Soundcloud
Music
Gealán - Concerto for Irish Harp and Orchestra (Anne-Marie O’Farrell, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney) Sliabh Geal gCua (Alexander Bernstein) for Morton O’Leary (Ryan Molloy) Gealach Chríoch Lochlann (Danish String Quartet) Hop Jigs (Ryan Molloy) Easter Snow (slow air) & Sally Gally (jig) (Padraig McGovern, Ryan Molloy) The Rocky Road to Dublin & Dusty Miller (hop jigs) (Sheila Friel, Ryan Molloy) Luasc (Irish Chamber Orchestra)
A special episode for St Patrick’s Day and marking a year of the pandemic. Composer and writer Ailís Ní Ríain reflects on her experiences throughout the past year. Show notes Ailís Ní Ríain
- CMC Composer page
- ailis.info
Music improvised by the composer on an altered piano.
Cover image - Rachel Gadsden.
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all our listeners.
Episode 36 of CMC’s regular podcast features conversations with Tokyo-based Irish composer Anna Murray about her experiences of studying Noh Theatre, and composer and sound artist Seán Ó Dálaigh on his current work with field recordings. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson, with production and editing support by Keith Fennell. Show Notes Anna Murray * CMC Composer page * annamurraymusic.com
Music * It’s Ever Now * Rndr9 (Clouds) * Read the Wall * It’s Ever Now * Electrictown
Seán Ó Dálaigh * CMC Composer page * www.seanodalaigh.com * Field Recordings * Binaural Recordings
Music * Folachas (Scotia Ensemble) * Rossbeigh Storm (Field Recording) * Landscape Map 1 * Oileán Chléire Swell (Field Recording) * Bamboo Forest Outside Kyoto (Field Recording) * (in)harmony (Amit Dolberg - Ensemble Meitar) * Fence (Field recording)
Cover art image by Seán Ó Dálaigh
CMC Communications & Projects Manager Linda O’Shea Farren talks to Jonathan Grimes about CMC’s new Contemporary Artists Network of CMC Colleagues programme, alongside contributions from Derek Ball, Robbie Blake, Sineád Hayes, Jenn Kirby, and Hannah Miller. Show Notes * Contemporary Artists Network of CMC Colleagues programme * Robbie Blake - Tonnta * Sineád Hayes * Jenn Kirby + CMC Composer Page + jennkirby.com * Derek Ball * Hannah Miller
Music * Derek Ball - Valediction (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Derek Ball - Marking Out (Hannah Miller) * Derek Ball - Distancing (Hannah Miller)
Episode 34 of CMC’s podcast. Evonne Ferguson talks to US-based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy about his current work, musical preoccupations, and his experiences of composing during lockdown, Jonathan Grimes talks to Irish clarinettist and new music specialist Carol McGonnell about her life and work, and music from Gráinne Mulvey recorded by Elizabeth Hilliard and Anselm McDonnell for CMC’s recent online Salon event. Show Notes Donnacha Dennehy * Composer web site * CMC Composer Page * The Last Hotel * The Second Violinist
Music * Donnacha Dennehy - The Last Hotel: Breathe Deep * Donnacha Dennehy - O (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney * Donnacha Dennehy - Tessellatum (Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne) * Ockeghem - Deo Gratias (Huelgas Ensemble) * Donnacha Dennehy - Swift’s Epitaph (Andrew Watts and Owen Gunnell)
Carol McGonnell * Argento Chamber Ensemble
Music * Ann Cleare - eyam v (woven) (Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney) * Irene Buckley - Choral * Ryan Molloy - Cantaireacht (Carol McGonnell) * Ann Cleare - eyam i (it takes an ocean not to)
CMC St. Brigid’s Day/La Fhéile Bríde 2021 event
- Gráinne Mulvey - a carlow song cycle: Poem #43 (Elizabeth Hilliard, Anselm McDonnell)
The final episode of CMC’s podcast presented by Jonathan Grimes and CMC Director Evonne Ferguson includes a brief look back on CMC’s work during 2020, an excerpt from CMC’s last online Salon event for 2020, and Anne-Marie O’Farrell on her 2017 Beethoven-inspired work, ‘Der Abend’. Show Notes * Anne-Marie O’Farrell + CMC Composer Page + Composer Web Site * CMC Salon - Sebastian Adams, Lina Andonoskva, and Barry O’Halpin
To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, this week’s amplify podcast features composers Gerald Barry, Seán Clancy, Raymond Deane, Eric Egan and Jane O’Leary on Beethoven’s influence and inspiration behind some of their works. The episode also features extracts from Beethoven’s letters read by Bernard Clarke. Show Notes * Gerald Barry + CMC Composer Page + Schott Music * Seán Clancy + CMC Composer Page + Composer web site * Raymond Deane + CMC Composer Page + Composer web site * Eric Egan * Jane O’Leary
Music * Beethoven - Emperor Concerto (Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Firkusny) * Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble) * Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Daniel Barenboim) * Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 (Emil Gilels) * Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney) * Jane O’Leary - The Passing of Sound Forever (ConTempo Quartet) * Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 (Emerson String Quartet) * Gerald Barry - Schott and Sons, Mainz (Stephen Richardson, Chamber Choir Ireland) * Gerald Barry - Mrs Streicher (Gavan Ring, Stephen Irvine) * Gerald Barry - Stockhausen (1928–2007) (Barbara Hannigan, Juoko Laivuori) * Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in a minor, Op 132 (Alban Berg Quartet * Eric Egan - … a thing glimpsed … (Trondheim Sinfonietta) * Seán Clancy - Neue Kraft Fühlend (Bozzini Quartet) * Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney) * Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble)
Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell
Thanks to Bernard Clarke for reading the letters, to Jane O’Leary for her help in selecting and sourcing the letters, CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan for her research into
This week’s podcast features four of the composers whose works will be presented as part of Irish National Opera’s 20 Shots of Opera online event. Éna Brennan, Michael Gallen, Emma O’Halloran, and Evangelia Rigaki talk about their pieces alongside contributions from INO Artistic Director Fergus Sheil and soprano Orla Boylan. Subscribe to the podcast here
Show Notes * 20 Shots of Opera * Michael Gallen + michaeljgallen.com + CMC composer page * Emma O’Halloran + emma-ohalloran.com + CMC composer page * Evangelia Rigaki * Éna Brennan
Music * Evangelia Rigaki - The Gift (Doreen Curran (mezzo-soprano), Sean McGinley (actor), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) * Michael Gallen - At a Loss (Orla Boylan (soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) * Emma O’Halloran - The Wait (Naomi Louisa O’Connell (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly) * Éna Brennan - Rupture (Rachel Goode (soprano), Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly)
This week’s podcast marks the Library Association of Ireland’s annual Library Ireland Week. CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan talks about recent digitisation projects in CMC’s library and selects some of the recordings that have been digitised. Also featured is a conversation with composer Francis Heery about his project ‘Animal Faith’ which researches the intersections between bioacoustics and composition. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Through the Digital Door: Library Ireland Week 2020 * Heritage Council/An Chomhairle Oidhreachta Community Heritage grant has been awarded to CMC * Francis Heery + francisheery.com + CMC composer page
Music * Francis Heery - Callows
CMC Library Coordinator, Susan Brodigan * Joan Trimble - Suite for Strings * Eric Sweeney - Musique pour mes Amis (Danish Wind Quartet), Recorded at November 1997 in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle * Raymond Deane - Marche Oublieé (Schubert Ensemble),recorded in February 1997 at Skerries Community Centre, Co. Dublin, * Donnacha Dennehy - Pluck, Stroke and Hammer (Hugh Tinney, Vanbrugh Quartet), recorded in 1997 at St Patrick’s Hall in Dublin Castle
Francis Heery * Francis Heery - Lebensraum * Morton Feldman - String Quartet No. 1 * Francis Heery - Quinta * Francis Heery - Callows * Francis Heery - Uexkell
Episode 29 of CMC’s podcast on Irish composers and new music features a conversation with flautist Emma Coulthard about her career and work with Irish composers. The episode also includes contributions from two of the composers on their collaborations with Emma - Paul Hayes and Fergus Johnston. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here
- Emma Coulthard
- Soundcloud page
- For the Birds - online concert on 30 November
Music * Fergus Johnston - Planxty * Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR * John Buckley - Boireann (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) * Michael Holohan - Leafy with Love Banks * Paul Hayes - Mass Production (Emma Coulthard (voice), Jennifer Walshe (trumpet), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Paul Hayes - Echo Chatterbox * John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) * Fergus Johnston - Opus Lepidopterae (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) * Benjamin Dwyer - HAG (Emma Coulthard, Benjamin Dwyer) * Fergus Johnston - Planxty * Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR * John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
Episode 28 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with composers about two recent album releases. Ed Bennett’s ‘Psychedelia’ on NMC Recordings, and Karen Power’s ‘Human Nature’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here
- Ed Bennett: Psychedelia (NMC Records)
- Karen Power: Human Nature
- Ed Bennett
- Composer web site
- CMC page
- Karen Power
- Composer web site
- CMC page
- CMC Salon - Ian Wilson ‘Wild is the wind’ album launch
- Wild is the wind - Diatribe Records
Music Please consider supporting the artists and labels by purchasing these releases
Opening * Ed Bennett - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra) * Karen Power - train to Machu Picchu
Karen Power All tracks from Human Nature - loved bees (Anne-Marie O’Farrell) - underwater frogs of Angkor Wat (Thomas Buckner) - train to Machu Picchu (Johnny Chang) - Amazonian frogs (Seth Josel) - if trees had bellies (Jane Rigler) - seals off the Namibian shipwreck coast (Ute Wassermann) - monkeys + ‘waterbird’ of the Amazon (Loré Lixenberg) - bats of Namibia (John Godfrey) - beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb (Rishin Singh) - sirens of New York (Samuel Stoll)
Ed Bennett All tracks from Psychedelia - Organ Grinder (Orkest de Ereprijs) - Freefalling (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) - Song of the Books: III (Kate Ellis, Decibel) - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra) - Song of the Books: II (Kate Ellis, Decibel) - Magnetic (Jack McNeill, Eliza McCarthy)
Episode 27 of CMC’s podcast ‘amplify’ features a special episode produced for this year’s City of Derry International Choir Festival. Derry-born composer Seán Doherty talks to Evonne Ferguson about his background in choral singing and composing for choir, and conductor Orla Flanagan talks to Jonathan Grimes about her work with the Mornington Singers and Irish composers. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here
- City of Derry International Choir Festival
- 2020 Festival podcast series
- Séan Doherty
- cmc.ie/composers/sean-doherty
- seandohertymusic.com
- New Dublin Voices
- Laetare Vocal Ensemble
- Orla Flanagan
- Mornington Singers
Music * Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers)
Seán Doherty * Blessed be that Maid Marie (New Dublin Voices) * Snow Dance for the Dead (New Dublin Voices) * A Nywe Werk (New Dublin Voices) * Ghost Song (Laetare Vocal Ensemble) * This Endless Night (New Dublin Voices) * Khuluma isintu (Speak to the People)
Orla Flanagan * Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers) * Caitríona Ní Dhubhghaill - Is naofa thú (Mornington Singers) * Evangelia Rigaki - The Pregnant Box (Mornington Singers) * John Buckley - Lux Aeterna (Mornington Singers) * John Buckley - To the Northeast: Harbour Song (Mornington Singers) * Seán Doherty - Under-Song (Mornington Singers) * Colin Mawby - Alleluia, Christus Resurrexit (Mornington Singers) * Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers) * Frank Corcoran - Caoine (Mornington Singers) * Gráinne Mulvey - Dead Earth (Milltown Chamber Choir) * Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)
Episode 26 of CMC’s podcast on new music from Ireland and Irish composers features a report from Kirkos Ensemble’s Biosphere series of outdoor events in September, and audio diaries from Jennifer Walshe, Tonnta vocal ensemble members Robbie Blake and Elizabeth Hilliard, and saxophonist Nick Roth on Jennifer Walshe’s recent work ‘Ireland: A Dataset’. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here
Biosphere Featuring contributions from composer Tom Lane, Kirkos Director Sebastian Adams, and horn player Hannah Miller
- Tom Lane
- Tide
- Sebastian Adams
- Tide Quartet
Ireland: A Dataset Audio diary contributions from Robbie Blake, Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe
- Ireland: A Dataset
- Tonnta
- Nick Roth
- CMC page
- Elizabeth Hilliard
- Jennifer Walshe
- CMC page
The first in a new series of CMC’s podcast features a special tribute to composer Eric Sweeney, who passed away in July of this year. The episode features contributions from David Adams, John Buckley, Hazel Farrell, Ronan Guilfoyle and Grainne Mulvey about the composer’s life, music and sizeable contribution to music in Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Eric Sweeney + CMC Page + ericsweeney.com * David Adams * John Buckley * Hazel Farrell * Ronan Guilfoyle * Grainne Mulvey * Through the Digital Door: works by Eric Sweeney in CMC’s Library
Music * Kyrie from Hymn to Gaia (Eric Sweeney) * Ceol Rince Ros Mhic Treoin (New Ross Dance Music) (Finghin Collins, Dearbhla Collins, Alexander Bernstein) * There is no Rose (Chamber Choir Ireland) * Duo (John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina) * Canzona (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Symphony No. 2 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Dance Music (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) * Le Circle de Lumiere (Eric Sweeney) * The Widening Gyre (Eric Sweeney) * Guitar Concerto (John Feeley, Sunrise Quartet) * Walk/Don’t Walk (Ríona Ó’Duinnín, Geraldine O’Doherty, Nancy Johnson) * The Invader * Evening: the lighthouse at Hook Head (Olga Scheps)
Thanks to Susan Brodigan, CMC Library Coordinator, for her help in sourcing the archival recordings.
The last in the current series of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Crash Ensemble CEO Neva Elliott McGinley and conductor Sinead Hayes on their current and future work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Neva Elliott McGinley Crashlands Professor Bad Trip Free State 12 Free State 13 Sinead Hayes Irish National Digital Performance Platform blog post
Music Neva Elliott McGinley
- Donnacha Dennehy - Canons and Overtones (Crash Ensemble), 5:25, 26:34
- Roger Doyle - UX 2 (Crash Ensemble)
- Linda Buckley - Seancheann (Caimin Gilmore)
- Seán Clancy - Eleven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop
- Andrew Hamilton - Music for People Who Like Art (Crash Ensemble)
- Donnacha Dennehy - As An Nós (Crash Ensemble)
- Mango X MathMan - Deep Blue featuring Lisa Hannigan and Crash Ensemble
Sinead Hayes
- Greg Caffrey - The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
- Raymond Deane - Vagbones (Opera Collective Ireland)
- Piers Hellawell - Ground Truthing: I (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
- Greg Caffrey - Garden of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
amplify podcast highlights
- Amanda Feery - Vulture (Crash Ensemble)
- Jennifer Walshe - TIME TIME TIME
- Donnacha Dennehy - The Hunger: Black Potatoes (Crash Ensemble and Iarla O Lionaird)
- Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street from Moog Residency
Episode 23 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Judith Ring on her work and dealing with a creative slump during lockdown, and Roger Doyle on his second electronic opera, ‘iGirl’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Judith Ring * Roger Doyle * CMC Salon 2 - Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu * CMC Salon 3 - Michelle O’Rourke * NCFA launches 13-Point Plan * Clonmel Junction Arts Festival - I Oedipus by Roger Doyle * Marina Carr * Scenes from iGIRL * Trish McAdam
Music * Roger Doyle - Blood on Their Hands
Judith Ring
- My one’s bigger than yours (Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson)
- Wildwood: Invisible Scampers (Martin Johnson) [live recording]
- Mouthpiece (Michelle O’Rourke, Natasha Lohan)
- Up to my f-holes (Kate Ellis)
- Accumulation
- A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska)
- Swelt belly at dawn (Concorde),
- Solo set at Valentia Island (2018)
- Swelt belly at dawn
Roger Doyle
Roger Doyle on Bandcamp
- Overture to iGirl
- I Girl of the Cursed Breasts
- I Oedipus
- I Joanne D’arc
Episode 22 of CMC’s podcast features an in-depth interview with composer, Andrew Hamilton about his new album 'Joy' on Ergodos Records and highlights of CMC's Salon online event from last week. Show Notes; CMC Salon; Andrew Hamilton's new album 'Joy' released on Ergodos Records.
- Music
Jane O'Leary - A Piacere (Paul Roe)
Andrew Hamilton - Joy
Andrew Hamilton - The Spirit of Art
Andrew Hamilton - May
Andrew Hamilton - A
Andrew Hamilton - Product #1
Andrew Hamilton - I and I
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Episode 21 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Ian Wilson on taking inspiration from the environment and politics, and his composing career up to this point, Jonathan Nangle and clarinettist Deirdre O’Leary on their recent collaboration for Music Network’s Butterfly Sessions, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer, Ultan O’Brien. Show Notes * Jonathan Nangle * Deirdre O’Leary * Ian Wilson + Soundcloud * Butterfly Sessions - Jonathan Nangle and Deirdre O’Leary * Ultan O’Brien + Soundcloud * West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Ultan O’Brien - Na Coillte Istoíche, 0:00, X:XX
- Jonathan Nangle - Mandala (Deirdre O’Leary)
- Ian Wilson - Lyric Suite (string quartet #7) (Callino Quartet)
- Ian Wilson - 1927 for three violins (Wasserfall)
- Ian Wilson - Pieces of Elsewhere
- Ian Wilson - A Sonata of Solstices and Equinoxes (Matthew Schellhorn), 23:48, 25:02
- Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)
- Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)
- Ian Wilson - The emptiness of the ever-expanding universe cannot compare to the void where your heart should be (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
- Ian Wilson - Species Counterpoint (Ties Mellema, Cathal Roche)
- Ian Wilson - Rise
- Ian Wilson - Limena (Hugh Tinney, Belgrade Strings)
- Gráinne Mulvey - Akanos (Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra)
- Anselm McDonnell - Hiraeth am Nefoedd
- Deirdre McKay - time shining (Andrew Zolinsky)
- Quiet Club + CrOw - As the quiet crow flies
- Greg Caffrey - Environments I (Finghin Collins, Ulster Orchestra)
- Ultan O’Brien - Fiddle Étude 3
Episode 20 of CMC’s podcast features a conversation with Amanda Feery and Lina Andonovska about their new recording, ‘The Scolds’, Scott Mc Laughlin on his current projects and composing during lockdown, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer Áine Mallon. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Lina Andonovska * Amanda Feery * Scott Mc Laughlin * Lina Andonovska - A Way A Lone A Last * amplify #1 - Amanda Feery * amplify #12 - live from New Music Dublin * Scold’s bridle * Composer Lab 2016 - interview with Scott Mc Laughlin * Tectonics Festival * Garden of Forking Paths * United Bible Studies * Murmansk * CMC Emerging Composer Scheme * CMC Emerging Composer Scheme 2020 announcement * Áine Mallon
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Scott Mc Laughlin - a particular constellation of openings and closures, 0:02, 36:44
- Amanda Feery - The Scolds (Lina Andonovska)
- Scott Mc Laughlin - Repetitions and Variations Transform One Another
- Scott Mc Laughlin - Abrash (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
- Scott Mc Laughlin - Duet (Heather Roche, Jonathan Sage)
- Scott Mc Laughlin - Threads of the Social
- Scott Mc Laughlin - The whole is encountered (Christopher Williams)
- Áine Mallon - Flotsam (Piatti Quartet), 39:12, 49:24
- Áine Mallon - Dum Transisset Sabbatum (ORA Singers)
Episode 19 features conversations with Dave Flynn about his current musical focus and the future for Irish composers and musicians after the Covid–19 Pandemic, and Karen Power on performing live with other musicians over the Internet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * In Focus album (featuring Gráinne Mulvey) * Dave Flynn * Dave Flynn on Soundcloud * Mel Bay * Irish Memory Orchestra * Niwel Tsumbu * Karen Power * Karen Power on Soundcloud * Earth Day Telematic Festival
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Gráinne Mulvey - Interstices (Ensemble MISE-EN)
Dave Flynn daveflynn.bandcamp.com
- Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3 ‘The Keening’ III (ConTempo Quartet), 4:30, 32:34
- Dave Flynn - Tar Éis an Caoineadh ’ (Irina Muresanu)
- Dave Flynn - Winter Snowflakes
- Dave Flynn - Elegy for Joan
- Dave Flynn - The Corncrake
- Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 2 ‘The Cranning’ - Slip (ConTempo Quartet
- Dave Flynn - Joy (Niwel Tsumbu, Crash Ensemble) [live recording]
- Benjamin Dwyer - Etude No. 1 from Twelve Etudes
- Eric Sweeney - Figurations (John Feeley)
- Jane O’Leary - Four Pieces for Guitar (John Feeley)
- Dave Flynn - Paddy Fahey’s Reels No. 20 & 6
- Dave Flynn - The Minimalist Reel (from the Clare Concerto) (Irish Memory Orchestra) [live recording]
Karen Power * veiled border quartet (Thomas Ciufo, John Godfrey, Karen Power, Jane Rigler)
Episode 18 features conversations with composer and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and his Beckett-inspired album, ‘What is the Word’; and composer, saxophonist and Diatribe Records co-director Nick Roth on the label. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Benjamin Dwyer * Nick Roth * Diatribe Records * New Music Dublin Diatribe Stage * Blue Shroud Band * Barry Guy * Maya Homburger * What is the Word album * Patrick Pye
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Nick Roth - Clarinet Quintet for Klezmer Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and String Quartet
- Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) i
- Barry Guy and the Blue Shroud Band , 8:12, 10:24, 12:54, 15:36, 18:53
- Barry Guy - Five Fizzles, 13:56
- Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) iv
- Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - i. neither, 24:50, 27:03 -Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude i
- Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude ii
- Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett) iii
- Nick Roth - Bátá (live recording from New Music Dublin 2020, 35:23, 47:06
- Nick Roth - A Loved A Long
Episode 17 features Glasgow-based Irish composer Linda Buckley in conversation with Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. The episode includes an introduction to a playlist of pieces by Irish composers, specially selected for the podcast by Linda Buckley. Show Notes * Linda Buckley * CMC Covid–19 policy initiatives * CMC Covid–19 Survey * CMC Through the Digital Door series: Trombone / horn; Clarinet; Violin
Music * Linda Buckley - Chiyo * Linda Buckley - Torann, 4:02, 36:02 * Linda Buckley - Revelavit, 10:23, 29:19 * Linda Buckley - Oscillate * Linda Buckley / Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street * Seán Clancy - and then you smiled * Crevice - Anita’s Altar * Linda Buckley - Vespers * Maria Somerville - Undoing * Slow Moving Clouds - Os * Linda Buckley - O Iochtar Mara * Linda Buckley - White Light * MMOTHS - Verbena * Andrew Hamilton - In airde High up
Linda Buckley’s Playlist Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street
- Seán Clancy - and then you smiled
- Linda Buckley - Vespers
- Maria Somerville - Undoing
- MMOTHS - Verbena
- Sorcha de Róiste - Aisling Gheal
- Crevice - Anita’s Altar
- Andrew Hamilton - In airde / High up
Episode 16 of CMC’s podcast features conversations about dealing with the Covid–19 Pandemic with pianist Isabelle O’Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Isabelle O’Connell * Frank Corcoran * Elizabeth Hilliard * National Campaign for the Arts * Artist Emergency Relief Fund * Arts Council COVID–19 Crisis Response Award * CMC COVID–19 Composer Survey * Finding a Voice
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Amanda Feery - Two Steps on the Water
- Donnacha Dennehy - Resevoir
- Linda Buckley - Fridur, 16:38, 20:42
- Siobhán Cleary - Ondine
- Frank Corcoran - Symphony No. 2 (opening)
- Frank Corcoran - Eight Haiku (archive recording)
- Gráinne Mulvey - Eternity is Now
- Gráinne Mulvey - The Seafarer
- David Bremner - Logic Ballad #2: The guarded tourist makes the guide the test
- Siobhán Cleary - Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire
Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell
Episode 15 of CMC’s podcast features composer and producer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid–19 Pandemic, and harpist and composer Úna Monaghan on working on ‘Aonaracht I’, a collection of pieces for New Music Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie
Show Notes * Matthew Whiteside + www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/ + Twitter * The Night With * Classical Next * Scottish New Music Awards * Ensemble Offspring concert * Úna Monaghan * Aonaracht I
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Úna Monaghan - Réalta
- Matthew Whiteside - Response One
- David Fennessy - Hirta Rounds
- Matthew Whiteside - Quartet No. 6
- Linda Buckley - Oscillate
- Úna Monaghan - Aonaracht I (rehearsal recording)
Episode 14 of CMC’s podcast features an interview with sound artist and instrument designer Ed Devane on live streaming and the use of technology in creating and sharing music, composer Brian Irvine on his Totally Made Up Orchestra, and recent music from John McLachlan, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie
Show Notes * John McLachlan Soundcloud * Covid–19 update from CMC * Covid–19 survey * Ed Devane * Plastic * Brian Irvine * Ed Devane Instagram * Helmholtz Challenge * Izumi Kimura * Cora Venus Lunny * Field Recording Project * Farpoint Recordings * Totally Made Up Orchestra
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- John McLachlan - Segue 1
- Devane / Parmar ISSTA Cork 2019
- Ed Devane - The Strolling Zither
- Izumi Kimura - Storm Emma, Above and Below
Episode 13 of CMC’s podcast includes an update on CMC’s working arrangements following the closure of its building to the public in light of the Covid–19 emergency, and a selection of recordings from Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Roger Doyle, Gráinne Mulvey, Ailís Ní Ríain and Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie
Show Notes * cmc.ie/Covid–19 * Fee guidelines for music commissions * Ed Bennett * Linda Buckley * Roger Doyle * Gráinne Mulvey * Ailís Ní Ríain * Garrett Sholdice
Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
- Ed Bennett - Togetherness (excerpt), Decibel
- Gráinne Mulvey - Awakening
- Ailís Ní Ríain - Highfalutin (excerpt), Iwona Glinka (flutes)
- Roger Doyle - Second Oak
- Linda Buckley - Númarímur (excerpt), Elizabeth Hilliard (voice)
- Garrett Sholdice - Weihnachtliche Musik / 2013, Garrett Sholdice (piano)
A live recording of CMC’s podcast held during New Music Dublin on 1 March 2020. The event featured an interview with composer Kevin O’Connell, whose portrait concert performed by the Hard Rain Ensemble took place during the festival, and a panel discussion on diversity in new music, ‘Whose music?’, with NMDX programme delegates Eve O’Donnell (National Sawdust) and David Pay (Music on Main), composer Amanda Feery, and New Music Dublin Festival Director John Harris. Presented by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Production, editing and recording - Keith Fennell
Show Notes * Kevin O’Connell * Kevin O’Connell portrait concert at New Music Dublin * Dreamcatchr - opera by Kevin O’Connell and Lily Akerman * Amanda Feery * Eve O’Donnell * National Sawdust * David Pay * Music on Main * John Harris * New Music Dublin
Music * Kevin O’Connell - Aves de Paso III, Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe, David Bremner.
See www.cmc.ie/amplify/episode-12-NMD-Live for full details
A special episode for International Women's Day, featuring recordings of works by Jennifer Walshe, Anna Murray and Jenn Kirby from their recent albums, introduced by the composers.
Music * Jennifer Walshe - Hildegard von Bingen: In Principio Omnes, from Ordo Virtutum * Anna Murray - Rndr7 (Moon) (extract) * Jenn Kirby - Smart Music
Featured albums Jennifer Walshe - A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1
Anna Murray - Rndr II
Jenn Kirby - Machine Being
Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes Recording - Keith Fennell
To mark International Women's Day 2020, episode 10 of CMC's podcast amplify profiles the work of the Sounding the Feminists collective with a conversation between Evonne Ferguson and STF Working Group Members Ann Cleare, Karen Power and Laura Watson; and STF Research Associate, Ciara Murphy on her project to carry out a Gender Balance Review Project for the collective. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Show Notes * Sounding the Feminists * Ann Cleare * Karen Power * Laura Watson * Ciara Murphy * Sounding the Feminists and Contemporary Music Centre Announce Gender Balance Review Project 2019
Music * Ann Cleare - fiáin, Crash Ensemble from the Album Crashlands - 00:02 * Karen Power - Invitation to Wander, Quiet Music Ensemble, Ute Wassermann, Michelle O’ Rourke, Sound Choir led by Karen Power - 17:13
Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes Recording - Keith Fennell
Episode 9 of CMC’s podcast features a conversation recorded in early February 2020 at the University of Limerick during the International Conference on Live Coding. Guests include writer-artist Emma Cocker, musician Alex McLean, composers Neil O’Connor and Giuseppe Torre, and curator Nora O’ Murchú. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify
Show Notes * International Conference on Live Coding 2020 Emma Cocker * Alex McLean * Nora O’ Murchú * Neil O’Connor * Giuseppe Torre * International Conference on Live Coding YouTube channel * CMC Live Amplify podcast recording at New Music Dublin - 1 March 2020
Music * Ordinance Survey - Chrome - 00:02, 26:18 * Kate Sicchio, Marissa Forbes and Zeshan Wang- Terpiscode - 02:09 * Alex McLean - Prototype - 05:34 * Char Stiles - eCosystem - 09:34 * Alex McLean - Bionic March - 17:25
Episode 8 of CMC's podcast features interviews recorded in Galway in early February 2020 with Toner Quinn, Journal of Music, composer Jane O'Leary, and Galway Music Residency - the ConTempo Quartet cellist, Adrian Mantu. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.
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Show Notes * Toner Quinn * Journal of Music * Jane O’Leary * ConTempo Quartet * Adrian Mantu * Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble
Music * Dave Flynn - Slip from String Quartet No. 2, ConTempo Quartet - 00:02 * Benedict Schlepper-Connolly - The weathered stone, Anita Vedres, Kate Ellis, Saskia Lankhoorn (Ergodos) - 04:51 * Donnacha Dennehy - Streetwalker, Crash Ensemble (NMC Recordings) - 09:19 * Seán Mac Erlaine - Horse-Drawn Thoughts (Ergodos) - 17:33 * Ina Boyle - String Quartet, live recording on 4 February 2020, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway. ConTempo Quartet - 20:33 * Jane O’Leary - forever begin… (Fanfare for a New Year), live recording on 4 February 2020, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway. ConTempo Quartet - 20:33–24:32 * Jane O’Leary - Beneath the Dark Blue Waves, live recording on 31 January 2020, SARC, Queens University, Belfast. Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble, - 25:34-28:58 * Jane O’Leary - Mystic Play of Shadows - 31:48–34:24 * Linda Buckley - Haza, ConTempo Quartet - 36:20 * Jennifer Walshe - Minard/Nithsdale, ConTempo Quartet - 41:00 * Deirdre McKay - Snowline, ConTempo Quartet - 44:28
Episode 7 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features an interview with New Music Dublin Festival Director John Harris about the 2020 festival, the link between social situations and new music, building audiences, achieving gender balance in programming, and the importance of placing international work alongside Irish work when programming the festival.
Complete show notes: www.cmc.ie/features/amplify-7
Show Notes * John Harris * New Music Dublin * Diatribe Records * Red Note Ensemble * Traverse Theatre * Ann Cleare * Úna Monaghan * New Music Dublin 2018 cancelled * New Music Dublin Defrosted * Juliet Fraser
Music * Barry O’Halpin - Hox, from A Way A Lone A Last, Lina Andonovska, Matthew Jacobson - 00:01 * Gerald Barry - Viola Concerto, Lawrence Power, Britten Sinfonia, conductor Thomas Ades - 07:34, 09:58 * Nick Roth - Bátá, from A Way A Lone A Last, Lina Andonovska, Matthew Jacobson - 13:14 * Kevin O’Connell - Aves de Paso III, from new music::new Ireland 3, Elizabeth Hilliard (voice), Paul Roe (clarinet), David Bremner (piano) - 16:41 * Judith Ring - A Breath of Fresh Air, from A Way A Lone A Last, Lina Andonovska - 20:33 * Kevin Volans -Gol Na mBan San Ár for Uilleann Pipes and Orchestra, David Power, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 25:05 * Úna Monaghan - Reálta - 29:24 * Siobhán Cleary - Leda and the Swan, from new music::new Ireland 3, Therese Fahy - 37:19 * Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett), from What is the Word (for release by Diatribe Records), Benjamin Dwyer - 39:33
Episode 6 of CMC's fortnightly podcast features interviews with violinist Darragh Morgan and composer Deirdre Gribbin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes * Darragh Morgan * Deirdre Gribbin * Fidelio Trio * Winter Chamber Music Festival * Mode Records * NMC Recordings
Music * Gerald Barry - Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio - 00:02, 19:43 * Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Sound, Fidelio Trio - 00:32, 15:27, 43.17 * Jonathan Nangle - where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds, Darragh Morgan - 03:51 * Brian Irvine - A mon seul desir, Darragh Morgan, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney - 05:37, 06:29 * Paul Wilson - Trapped in Ice, Darragh Morgan - 07:36 * Michael Finnissy - Mississippi Hornpipes , Darragh Morgan - 08:47 * John Buckley - Piano Trio: II Kaleidoscope, Fidelio Trio - 11:18 * Donnacha Dennehy - Elastic Harmonic, Darragh Morgan, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney - 17:42 * Linda Buckley - Exploding Stars, Darragh Morgan - 22:08 * Piers Hellawell - Jan Palach and the Flaming Skier, Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea - 25:00 * Kevin Volans - Piano Trio, Fidelio Trio - 27:04 * Deirdre Gribbin - Venus Blazing, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Bradley Creswick - 34.23 * Deirdre Gribbin - Hearing Your Genes Evolve, Isenberg Quartet- 38.03
Further information: https://www.cmc.ie/features/amplify-6
Episode 5 of CMC’s podcast features interviews with Jennifer Walshe’s about her opera TIME TIME TIME and Kevin Volans on reaching 70. Subscribe to the Podcast here.
Production - Jonathan Grimes Recording and editing - Keith Fennell
Show Notes * Jennifer Walshe * TIME TIME TIME * Kevin Volans * Kevin Volans’ 70th Birthday Concert * Sonic Acts * MaerzMusik * Ultima Festival * Borealis * Serpentine Galleries * London Contemporary Music Festival * Aedín Cosgrove * Úna Monaghan * Timothy Morton * MC Schmidt * Lee Patterson * Áine O’Dwyer * Cafe Oto * Aosdána * Open Ear Festival * Áine O’Dwyer - Accompaniment for Captives * Eoin Murray - The Quietus
Music * Kevin Volans - String Quartet No. 9, Signum Quartett - 00:02 * Jennifer Walshe & Timothy Morton - TIME TIME TIME; Berlin, March 2019 - 02:57, 04:27, 6:10, 9:38, 11:46, 18:45, 20:19 * Jennifer Walshe & Timothy Morton - TIME TIME TIME; London, December 2019 (rehearsal) - 14:48, 28:01, 32:02, 33:10 * Jennifer Walshe - The Site of an Investigation, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 23:21, 34:44 * Áine O’Dwyer - Alter Boy - 26:20 * Kevin Volans - String Quartet No. 12, Signum Quartett - 37:55, 51:48
Episode 4 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features interviews with Donnacha Dennehy, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Tom Creed on Dennehy’s recent opera, ‘The Hunger’, and former RTÉ producer and RTÉ lyric fm station head Seamus Crimmins on composer and choral conductor Colin Mawby, who died recently. Production - Jonathan Grimes
Recording and editing - Keith Fennell
The feature on Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger was devised and researched by Maynooth University music lecturer and researcher, Stephanie Ford.
Show Notes Donnacha Dennehy
www.donnachadennehy.com
Iarla Ó Lionáird
iarla.com
Tom Creed
tomcreed.org
The Hunger - Abbey Theatre
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-hunger
Music The Hunger * The Hunger: Black Potatoes, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 00:02, 20:28, 23:23, 28:39 * The Hunger: I Feared He Would Die, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 06:17, 26:18 * Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 09:09, 12:38, 15:55 * Stainless Staining, Lisa Moore - 14:52 * Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 15:55 * The Hunger: I Have Seen and Handled the Black Bread, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson 17:20 * The Hunger: The Keening, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 31:44
Colin Mawby * Ave verum corpus, Westminster Catherdral Choir, City of London Sinfonia, conductor James O’Donnell - 32:51, 41:16 * When David Heard, Chamber Choir Ireland - 36:49 * O magnum mysterium, Kölner Kantorei, conductor Volker Hempfling - 38:44
Episode 3 of CMC’s new podcast features an interview with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival artistic director, Graham McKenzie, Dáirine Ní Mheadhra on her project to commission Irish composers to write songs using Irish language texts, and CMC Scholar-in-residence Orla Shannon on the music and lives of twentieth-century Irish women composers Ina Boyle and Joan Trimble. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.
Recording and production - Keith Fennell
Editing - Jonathan Grimes
Show Notes Ann Cleare https://www.cmc.ie/composers/ann-cleare
Riot Ensemble http://riotensemble.com/
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival https://hcmf.co.uk/
CMC at HCMF https://www.cmc.ie/news/11202019–2125/cmc–2019-huddersfield-contemporary-music-festival
Irish Language Art Song Project https://www.cmc.ie/AmhrainEalaineGhaeilge
Joan Trimble https://www.cmc.ie/composers/joan-trimble
Ina Boyle http://www.inaboyle.org/
Music * Ann Cleare - Glór / Voice, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 00:02 * Ann Cleare - Eyam V, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 3:25, 12:04 * Andrew Hamilton - An dóigh leat? Do you think?, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 14:22, 16:06 * Jennifer Walshe - 12 Amhrán Faoi Athrú Aeráide / 12 Climate Change Songs, Anna Devin (voice), John Hess (piano) - 19:04 * John Kinsella - Bóithre Bána / White Roads, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 22:11 * Ryan Molloy - Ceoltóir na nÉan / Bird Singer, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 23:20, 24:28 * Linda Buckley - Sólás / Solace, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 28:21, 30:02 * Joan Trimble - Green Rain, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 32:22 * Ina Boyle - Symphony No. 1 ‘Glencree’ (second movement), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery - 34:46, 45:56 * Ina Boyle - Sleep Song, Aylish Kerrigan (voice), Dearbhla Collins (piano) - 41:02 * Joan Trimble - Girl’s Song, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 43:27
The second episode of the Contemporary Music Centre's fortnightly podcast features a conversation recorded in Limerick with composer Jürgen Simpson on new music and broadcasting; as well as marking John Kinsella’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Concert Hall, Dublin ahead of the premiere of his 11th Symphony later this month. The episode is presented by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes.
Subscribe to the Podcast here.
Recording and production - Keith Fennell
Editing - Jonathan Grimes / Jürgen Simpson
Show Notes Jürgen Simpson https://www.cmc.ie/composers/jurgen-simpson
Music * John Kinsella - Symphony No. 6, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, John Kinsella Orchestral Works - 00:31 * Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 03:44 * Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 06:41 * Jürgen Simpson - Sigilum - 16:22 * Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 25:15 * Gráinne Mulvey - Aeolus - 27:45 * Roger Doyle - Orange Moonlamp - 31:22
journalofmusic.com/focus/lyric-fm-needs-new-vision-not-more-cuts
www.cmc.ie/news/10242019–1037/john-kinsella-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-national-concert-hall
crosscurrents.ie
In the first episode of CMC's new fortnightly podcast, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes talk with composer Amanda Feery about her recent work at the Dublin Fringe Festival, writing for symphonic wind band, making a living as a composer in Dublin and the worsening economic conditions for artists living in the capital, and why she chose to move back to Ireland from the US. Recorded in CMC in October 2019
cmc.ie
Amanda Feery https://www.cmc.ie/composers/amanda-feery
https://soundcloud.com/amandafeery
Music * Squarepushers, Quince Ensemble - 3:25
https://www.cmc.ie/music/squarepushers * Give Us The Night, Third Coast Percussion - 15:05 * This is the House Of, Mizzou New Music Initiative - 34:10 * Vultures, Crash Ensemble - 40:08
Nine Weeks
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/nine-weeks-review-extraordinary-performance-which-gives-voice-to-the-inexpressible–1.4016197
Ball State Symphony Band
https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/music/ensembles/bands/symphony-band
Heartworm (clip)
https://twitter.com/amandafeery/status/1175037921767886849
Irish National Opera Studio
https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/
Evangelia Rigaki - This Hostel Life
https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/whats-on/current-upcoming-productions/this-hostel-life
Stephen McNeff - Banished
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/stephen-mcneffs-banished-at-kilmainham-gaol-museum-tickets–50368700138
Donnacha Dennehy - Second Violinist
https://thesecondviolinist.ie/
New Music Dublin
https://www.cmc.ie/content/new-music-dublin–2019
CrashLands
https://www.crashensemble.com/crashlands
Recording and production - Keith Fennell
Editing - Jonathan Grimes