Episode 21 of CMC's podcast features conversations with Ian Wilson on taking inspiration from the environment and politics, and his composing career up to this point, Jonathan Nangle and clarinettist Deirdre O'Leary on their recent collaboration for Music Network's Butterfly Sessions, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer, Ultan O'Brien.Show Notes

• Jonathan Nangle
• Deirdre O'Leary
• Ian Wilson
  • Soundcloud
• Butterfly Sessions - Jonathan Nangle and Deirdre O'Leary
• Ultan O'Brien
  • Soundcloud
• West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition

Music

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• Ultan O'Brien - Na Coillte Istoíche, 0:00, X:XX

• Jonathan Nangle - Mandala (Deirdre O'Leary)

• Ian Wilson - Lyric Suite (string quartet #7) (Callino Quartet)

• Ian Wilson - 1927 for three violins (Wasserfall)

• Ian Wilson - Pieces of Elsewhere

• Ian Wilson - A Sonata of Solstices and Equinoxes (Matthew Schellhorn), 23:48, 25:02

• Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)

• Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)

• Ian Wilson - The emptiness of the ever-expanding universe cannot compare to the void where your heart should be (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)

• Ian Wilson - Species Counterpoint (Ties Mellema, Cathal Roche)

• Ian Wilson - Rise

• Ian Wilson - Limena (Hugh Tinney, Belgrade Strings)

• Gráinne Mulvey - Akanos (Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra)

• Anselm McDonnell - Hiraeth am Nefoedd

• Deirdre McKay - time shining (Andrew Zolinsky)

• Quiet Club + CrOw - As the quiet crow flies

• Greg Caffrey - Environments I (Finghin Collins, Ulster Orchestra)

• Ultan O'Brien - Fiddle Étude 3

Episode 20 of CMC's podcast features a conversation with Amanda Feery and Lina Andonovska about their new recording, ‘The Scolds', Scott Mc Laughlin on his current projects and composing during lockdown, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer Áine Mallon. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Lina Andonovska
• Amanda Feery
• Scott Mc Laughlin
• Lina Andonovska - A Way A Lone A Last
• amplify #1 - Amanda Feery
• amplify #12 - live from New Music Dublin
• Scold's bridle
• Composer Lab 2016 - interview with Scott Mc Laughlin
• Tectonics Festival
• Garden of Forking Paths
• United Bible Studies
• Murmansk
• CMC Emerging Composer Scheme
• CMC Emerging Composer Scheme 2020 announcement
• Áine Mallon

Music

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• Scott Mc Laughlin - a particular constellation of openings and closures, 0:02, 36:44
• Amanda Feery - The Scolds (Lina Andonovska)
• Scott Mc Laughlin - Repetitions and Variations Transform One Another
• Scott Mc Laughlin - Abrash (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Scott Mc Laughlin - Duet (Heather Roche, Jonathan Sage)
• Scott Mc Laughlin - Threads of the Social
• Scott Mc Laughlin - The whole is encountered (Christopher Williams)
• Áine Mallon - Flotsam (Piatti Quartet), 39:12, 49:24
• Áine Mallon - Dum Transisset Sabbatum (ORA Singers)

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Episode 19 features conversations with Dave Flynn about his current musical focus and the future for Irish composers and musicians after the Covid–19 Pandemic, and Karen Power on performing live with other musicians over the Internet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• In Focus album (featuring Gráinne Mulvey)
• Dave Flynn
• Dave Flynn on Soundcloud
• Mel Bay
• Irish Memory Orchestra
• Niwel Tsumbu
• Karen Power
• Karen Power on Soundcloud
• Earth Day Telematic Festival

Music

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• Gráinne Mulvey - Interstices (Ensemble MISE-EN)

Dave Flynn

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• Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3 ‘The Keening' III (ConTempo Quartet), 4:30, 32:34
• Dave Flynn - Tar Éis an Caoineadh ' (Irina Muresanu)
• Dave Flynn - Winter Snowflakes
• Dave Flynn - Elegy for Joan
• Dave Flynn - The Corncrake
• Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 2 ‘The Cranning' - Slip (ConTempo Quartet
• Dave Flynn - Joy (Niwel Tsumbu, Crash Ensemble) [live recording]
• Benjamin Dwyer - Etude No. 1 from Twelve Etudes
• Eric Sweeney - Figurations (John Feeley)
• Jane O'Leary - Four Pieces for Guitar (John Feeley)
• Dave Flynn - Paddy Fahey's Reels No. 20 & 6
• Dave Flynn - The Minimalist Reel (from the Clare Concerto) (Irish Memory Orchestra) [live recording]

Karen Power

• veiled border quartet (Thomas Ciufo, John Godfrey, Karen Power, Jane Rigler)

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Episode 18 features conversations with composer and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and his Beckett-inspired album, ‘What is the Word'; and composer, saxophonist and Diatribe Records co-director Nick Roth on the label. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Benjamin Dwyer
• Nick Roth
• Diatribe Records
• New Music Dublin Diatribe Stage
• Blue Shroud Band
• Barry Guy
• Maya Homburger
• What is the Word album
• Patrick Pye

Music

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• Nick Roth - Clarinet Quintet for Klezmer Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and String Quartet
• Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) i
• Barry Guy and the Blue Shroud Band , 8:12, 10:24, 12:54, 15:36, 18:53
• Barry Guy - Five Fizzles, 13:56
• Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) iv
• Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - i. neither, 24:50, 27:03-Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude i
• Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude ii
• Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett) iii
• Nick Roth - Bátá (live recording from New Music Dublin 2020, 35:23, 47:06
• Nick Roth - A Loved A Long

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Episode 17 features Glasgow-based Irish composer Linda Buckley in conversation with Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. The episode includes an introduction to a playlist of pieces by Irish composers, specially selected for the podcast by Linda Buckley.Show Notes

• Linda Buckley
• CMC Covid–19 policy initiatives
• CMC Covid–19 Survey
• CMC Through the Digital Door series: Trombone / horn; Clarinet; Violin

Music

• Linda Buckley - Chiyo
• Linda Buckley - Torann, 4:02, 36:02
• Linda Buckley - Revelavit, 10:23, 29:19
• Linda Buckley - Oscillate
• Linda Buckley / Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street
• Seán Clancy - and then you smiled
• Crevice - Anita’s Altar
• Linda Buckley - Vespers
• Maria Somerville - Undoing
• Slow Moving Clouds - Os
• Linda Buckley - O Iochtar Mara
• Linda Buckley - White Light
• MMOTHS - Verbena
• Andrew Hamilton - In airde High up

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• Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street
• Seán Clancy - and then you smiled
• Linda Buckley - Vespers
• Maria Somerville - Undoing
• MMOTHS - Verbena
• Sorcha de Róiste - Aisling Gheal
• Crevice - Anita's Altar
• Andrew Hamilton - In airde / High up

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Episode 16 of CMC's podcast features conversations about dealing with the Covid–19 Pandemic with pianist Isabelle O'Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Isabelle O'Connell
• Frank Corcoran
• Elizabeth Hilliard
• National Campaign for the Arts
• Artist Emergency Relief Fund
• Arts Council COVID–19 Crisis Response Award
• CMC COVID–19 Composer Survey
• Finding a Voice

Music

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• Amanda Feery - Two Steps on the Water
• Donnacha Dennehy - Resevoir
• Linda Buckley - Fridur, 16:38, 20:42
• Siobhán Cleary - Ondine
• Frank Corcoran - Symphony No. 2 (opening)
• Frank Corcoran - Eight Haiku (archive recording)
• Gráinne Mulvey - Eternity is Now
• Gráinne Mulvey - The Seafarer
• David Bremner - Logic Ballad #2: The guarded tourist makes the guide the test
• Siobhán Cleary - Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire

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Episode 15 of CMC’s podcast features composer and producer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid–19 Pandemic, and harpist and composer Úna Monaghan on working on ‘Aonaracht I’, a collection of pieces for New Music Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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Show Notes

• Matthew Whiteside
  • www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/
  • Twitter
• The Night With
• Classical Next
• Scottish New Music Awards
• Ensemble Offspring concert
• Úna Monaghan
• Aonaracht I

Music

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• Úna Monaghan - Réalta
• Matthew Whiteside - Response One
• David Fennessy - Hirta Rounds
• Matthew Whiteside - Quartet No. 6
• Linda Buckley - Oscillate
• Úna Monaghan - Aonaracht I (rehearsal recording)

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Episode 14 of CMC's podcast features an interview with sound artist and instrument designer Ed Devane on live streaming and the use of technology in creating and sharing music, composer Brian Irvine on his Totally Made Up Orchestra, and recent music from John McLachlan, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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Show Notes

• John McLachlan Soundcloud
• Covid–19 update from CMC
• Covid–19 survey
• Ed Devane
• Plastic
• Brian Irvine
• Ed Devane Instagram
• Helmholtz Challenge
• Izumi Kimura
• Cora Venus Lunny
• Field Recording Project
• Farpoint Recordings
• Totally Made Up Orchestra

Music

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• John McLachlan - Segue 1
• Devane / Parmar ISSTA Cork 2019
• Ed Devane - The Strolling Zither
• Izumi Kimura - Storm Emma, Above and Below

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Episode 13 of CMC's podcast includes an update on CMC's working arrangements following the closure of its building to the public in light of the Covid–19 emergency, and a selection of recordings from Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Roger Doyle, Gráinne Mulvey, Ailís Ní Ríain and Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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Show Notes

• cmc.ie/Covid–19
• Fee guidelines for music commissions
• Ed Bennett
• Linda Buckley
• Roger Doyle
• Gráinne Mulvey
• Ailís Ní Ríain
• Garrett Sholdice

Music

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• Ed Bennett - Togetherness (excerpt), Decibel
• Gráinne Mulvey - Awakening
• Ailís Ní Ríain - Highfalutin (excerpt), Iwona Glinka (flutes)
• Roger Doyle - Second Oak
• Linda Buckley - Númarímur (excerpt), Elizabeth Hilliard (voice)
• Garrett Sholdice - Weihnachtliche Musik / 2013, Garrett Sholdice (piano)

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A live recording of CMC’s podcast held during New Music Dublin on 1 March 2020. The event featured an interview with composer Kevin O’Connell, whose portrait concert performed by the Hard Rain Ensemble took place during the festival, and a panel discussion on diversity in new music, ‘Whose music?’, with NMDX programme delegates Eve O’Donnell (National Sawdust) and David Pay (Music on Main), composer Amanda Feery, and New Music Dublin Festival Director John Harris. Presented by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes.

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Production, editing and recording - Keith Fennell

Show Notes

• Kevin O’Connell
• Kevin O’Connell portrait concert at New Music Dublin
• Dreamcatchr - opera by Kevin O’Connell and Lily Akerman
• Amanda Feery
• Eve O’Donnell
• National Sawdust
• David Pay
• Music on Main
• John Harris
• New Music Dublin

Music

• Kevin O’Connell - Aves de Paso III, Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe, David Bremner.

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