The Contemporary Music Centre has joined forces with the ground breaking Kaleidoscope Night monthly salon series for its next new music::new Ireland salon. Kaleidoscope Night will present Kaleidoscope Premieres for the CMC new music::new Ireland salon. This will feature repeat performances of 3 premieres of contemporary music, which have taken place in Kaleidoscope Night to [...]
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CMC new music::new Ireland April features Kaleidoscope performers Kate Ellis and Cliodhna Ryan, and the launch of a two-track album by composer Enda Bates
4 April 2012 – 12:14 pm
The CMC in association with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, presents Musical Tales 2012
3 April 2012 – 12:34 pm
The Contemporary Music Centre, in association with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, presents Musical Tales 2012 – a series of four concerts of live music with short films in Dublin City Libraries – featuring the Milesian Quartet wih soprano Rachel Croash and flautist Brian Dunning. The concerts are curated by composer, Benjamin Dwyer, who [...]
The National Chamber Choir features works by Hellawell, Bates, Fennessy and Corcoran in April tour.
3 April 2012 – 12:02 pm
The title of the National Chamber Choir of Ireland’s 2012 tour, from Tarik O’Regan’s The Spring, itself based on an 12th/13th century Irish narrative, is strongly evocative: An Irish Colloquy. The programme for the tour is indeed a meeting point, a platform upon which the many strands of Irish and Ireland-influenced music can exchange, compare [...]
Donegal Public Art presents new theatre piece by Vincent Kennedy based on The Happy Prince.
3 April 2012 – 11:25 am
Irish composer Vincent Kennedy has teamed up with playwright and actor Little John Nee for an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story The Happy Prince. The Happy Prince has been subject to a number of adaptations in the past, but this theatre production promises to be a unique coming together of art, storytelling and [...]
Composer Competition for Irish Composers at the 2012 West Cork Chamber Music Festival
19 January 2012 – 11:46 am
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival is delighted to partner with the Contemporary Music Centre for this Composer Competition in 2012. It reflects the commitment of the Festival and the Centre to nurture the creation and performance of new Irish music. This year the competition is once again kindly supported by the Irish Music Rights [...]
Concorde will present new works by Irish composers at the Rubicon Gallery on 27 November 2011
22 November 2011 – 8:30 am
The concerts, which are part of the ensemble’s Up Close with Music series, take place on the afternoon of Sunday, 27 November in the Rubicon Gallery, Stephens Green. Each event features a special commission, new music from Irish composers, a work by American Elliott Carter on the eve of his 103rd birthday, and a retrospective [...]
Kilcormac a new Cantata by Vincent Kennedy
3 November 2011 – 11:10 am
The world premiere of Kilcormac, a new Cantata by Vincent Kennedy commissioned by Offaly County Council will take place in the KDA Hall in Kilcormac, County Offaly on Sunday 27th November at 4pm. The new work combines choral, solo voice, instrumental and music in traditional Irish idiom and is inspired by stories, events, history and [...]
New work by Judith Ring receives Berlin performance
3 November 2011 – 11:03 am
Ergodos Autumn 2011 edition of Leap, ‘Intervention’, will feature two performances across the evening of Friday 4 November: Dublin-based percussionist-composer Dennis Cassidy, and Berlin/NYC vocal duo Tryst. Vocal duo Tryst’s performance practice represents an intelligent and highly variegated approach to this paradigm. Drawing inspiration from jazz, contemporary, classical, cabaret and folk performance cultures, Michelle [...]
Softday performances in November
2 November 2011 – 6:20 pm
It’s been a busy month for Softday (Seán Taylor and Mikael Fernström), just back from playing at Kubus ZKM in Karlsruhre Germany as prize winners in the Europe – A Sound Panorama, they performed their new collaborative work As Baile with the staff and students of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, at [...]
dublinsoundLAB presents MUSIC CURRENT
4 October 2011 – 12:19 pm
MUSIC CURRENT is 2 days of interactive electronic music featuring Karlheinz Essl at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 21-22 October 2011 Austrian composer, performer, improviser, software developer, sound artist, Karlheinz Essl is one of the leading figures of the international computer music scene. His output includes instrumental works, generative sound environments, installations and internet-based projects. [...]
