‘When my life was more stable, my music was more active, more gritty. When my life has been chaotic my music has calmed down’
New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
Writer Anne Enright and visual artist Amanda Coogan among association’s new members
Pianist and farmer talks about agriculture, classical music and protecting his hands
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video
The Kinsale composer’s work is dominated by morphings of electronic sounds
The Irish Language Art Song Project: its promotion of Irish music is nonpareil
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
Radio review: RTÉ’s preview of 2020 turns unexpectedly sombre, as Second Captains get more sport from a determined diplomat
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
Startling soundscapes and sublime electronica from a modern maverick
From individual empowerment to groupthink, dancers tackled disparate themes
Why does the NCH need €20,000 before it will bother exploring music by women?
The common theme at the Sunbeam Bingo Hall and Sirius Arts Centre performances was personal identity
Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous
Also, Two-day festival in the Oriel from Louth Contemporary Music Society
Founder of Louth Contemporary Music Society singled due to ‘burning passion for contemporary music’
Finding a Voice festival’s all-female finale; Vanbrugh & Michael McHale; Philippe Cassard
The second edition of Dublin’s genre-blind alternative festival is back next week to once again challenge cello orthodoxy
From Antarctica to Ukraine and Schubert to Brexit, a one-day exploration of the festival
Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick
SEA TO THE WESTElizabeth Hilliard (soprano) ****Métier MSV 28551
‘Composing the Island’ celebrates 100 years of music by Irish composers, written between 1916 and 2016. What do composers think about Irish music now?
Can the Music of Our Time series at the NCH remedy the weaknesses of the national broadcaster’s long-standing approach to new music?
Norway’s top opera job is being taken up by Annilese Miskimmon. The post comes with its own dramatic history
That question was arguably answered in concerts at the National Concert Hall and University Church last week
What attracted Iarla Ó Lionáird, Duke Special and Julie Feeney to collaborate with Cork Gamelan Ensemble?
The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity
Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom
In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism
A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told
In the first Great Symphonies Close Up concert, Charles Hazlewood explores Dvorák and shows a flair for the apt metaphor
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices