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)

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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)

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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)

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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 notesNorah WalshCMC composer pageNorah Walsh wins Seán Ó Riada Composition CompetitionPeter Sirr (poet)Mellow Tonics ChoirMusicHer (Edel Shannon, Sinead Conway, Norah Walsh)The Shoe Box Coffin (Mellow Tonics)Ryan Molloyryanmolloy.ieCMC composer pageBandcampSoundcloudMusicGealán - 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)

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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.

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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 NotesAnna 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

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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)

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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 NotesDonnacha 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)

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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

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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

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