The orchestra will perform her work Fall Approaches in two concerts in Doneraile Co. Cork and Portlaoise Co. Laois on 24 and 25 May.
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New music by composers from Louth and Meath performed by the ConTempo Quartet in June
22 May 2012 – 1:57 pm
ConTempo Quartet
The Irish Composers’ Collective presents vox merus
22 May 2012 – 1:40 pm
The next concert presented by the Irish Composers’ Collective will take place at the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall on the 31 May. The programme will feature eight new pieces for brass quintet by member composers and will be performed by the vox merus brass quintet. The vox merus brass quintet was [...]
Array Music Young Composers Workshop
18 May 2012 – 3:27 pm
Composer Karen Power reports from Toronto, Canada, where she is participating in a month-long workshop with the Arraymusic Ensemble. 15 May 2012 I am exactly two weeks into my four-week workshop program in Toronto, Canada, with Array Music (www.arraymusic.com). The sun is shining, the music is diverse, and the creative energy is palpable! This programme [...]
Greg Caffrey wins composition award
18 May 2012 – 12:55 pm
The Belfast-based composer won first prize in the Italian composition competition, Concurso Counterpoint, for his work guitar work Takemitsu’s Dream. The Concurso Counterpoint is an open competition for solo flute, keyboard, guitar and duo or electronic works involving these instruments. The work will be performed as part of the “Composer’s Voice” series at Jan Hus [...]
Music by Rhona Clarke and Jane O’Leary performed in Chicago
17 May 2012 – 12:13 pm
On 20 May 2012, the Chicago new music organisation Access Contemporary Music (ACM) presents a concert by their ensemble Palomar. The concert, which takes place at the Green Mill in Chicago, includes two works by Rhona Clarke and Jane O’Leary programmed as a result of a repertoire exchange between ACM and Concorde. Rhona Clarke’s con [...]
‘The Happy Prince’ featuring music by Vincent Kennedy receives a live broadcast on RTÉ on 18 May 2012
16 May 2012 – 4:10 pm
The Happy Prince is based on Oscar Wilde’s story and is a commission from Donegal County Council Cultural Services. Composer Vincent Kennedy collaborated with writer, actor, storyteller and musician Little John Nee and produced a music theatre work especially written for and performed by the Donegal VEC Music Education Partnership’s performing groups. The original stage [...]
David Fennessy’s Opera Pass the Spoon available to view online
16 May 2012 – 11:41 am
Pass the Spoon is a collaboration between David Fennessy, visual artist David Shrigley, and Director Nicholas Bone. Described by its creators as a ‘sort of opera’, the drama takes place during a daytime TV cookery show and focuses on a meal cooked for a sinister character, Mr Granules, with disastrous consequences. The opera was premiered [...]
Winners of the 2012 West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition announced
9 May 2012 – 3:45 pm
West Cork Music, in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre and the Irish Music Rights Organisation, announce the winners of the 2012 West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition. The winners of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival’s fifth Composition Competition are Solfa Carlile for her piano trio Saul and the Witch, J. Harry Whalley [...]
Words on the Street
9 May 2012 – 11:50 am
CMC is one of the host venues for European Literature Night on Wednesday 16 May, from 6.30–9.30pm. Here are some details on the event: Dublin writers are famous the world over. Try a taste of contemporary European writing with readings from Irish celebrities and UK authors Bernard MacLaverty and Joe Dunthorne in 12 unusual venues [...]
