‘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
Rhona Clarke
Rhona Clarke: Sempiternam choral music review – certain gestures a little cliched
Clarke is fond of graduated spills of sound
Ellen Jansson on discovering Fanny Mendelssohn: ‘It’s deeply personal’
Clonmel’s Finding a Voice festival of music by women composers is going online this year
Classical music: What to see at this summer’s festivals
Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway
What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes
Past tension: the eternal battle between old and new music
There was nothing wrong with the New Music Dublin Festival – just its name
The best classical music and opera this week
City of London Sinfonia with pianist Michael McHale and conductor Michael Collins, Quatuor Voce’s nine-stop tour and NI Opera stage Così fan tutte
Classical highlights in November
At last, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is presenting ‘A celebration of contemporary Irish female composers’ at the NCH
Room at the top: another departure from RTÉ’s performing groups
Several key vacancies persist at the top of RTÉ’s performing groups, and one man is currently covering three roles
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is out of touch with the music of its own time
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is failing to engage with modern music, and this needs to change
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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