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November 12, 2024 amplify #113 - Live from West Cork Chamber Music Festival
A live podcast discussion recorded at the 2024 West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Composers Rhona Clarke and Deirdre Gribbin join Jonathan Grimes to discuss their work on ‘Magdalene Songs’, an ongoing project by pianist Deirdre Brenner, which features their songs along with songs by Deirdre McKay, all based on testimonies from survivors of the Magdalene Laundries.This discussion took place following a performance the previous evening of the ‘Magdalene Songs’ by mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and Deirdre Brenner.From 1922 to 1996, more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders in 10 locations around the country, these for-profit institutions detained individuals against their will and forced them to work long hours, unpaid, under abusive and humiliating conditions. These institutions committed some of the most serious systematic violations against human rights in Ireland in the 20th century.This work by is intended to honour those women who were so gravely mistreated by church and state in the Magdalene Laundries by giving voice to their experience.Show Notes• https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/• https://www.rhonaclarke.com/• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/rhona-clarke• http://jfmresearch.com/home/preserving-magdalene-history/about-the-magdalene-laundries/• https://www.deirdregribbin.com/• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-gribbin• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-mckay• https://www.deirdre-brenner.com/• https://www.lottebettsdean.com/MusicAll music from Magdalene Songs, performed live at West Cork Chamber Music Festival on 5 July 2024 at St Brendan’s Hall, Bantry by Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Deirdre Brenner (piano), and recorded by RTÉ Lyric fm. • Rhona Clarke - Martina• Deirdre Gribbin - Bernadette• Rhona Clarke - Evelyn• Deirdre McKay - Litany to the Magdalene DeadRecording and editing: Keith Fennell
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29 min
October 11, 2024amplify #112 - Composer Lab 2024
This week’s podcast features conversations recorded during the workshop of Composer Lab, a professional development initiative from CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra aimed at composers who have had limited opportunities to write for symphony orchestra. Jonathan Grimes speaks to the participating composers Amelia Clarkson, Barry O’Halpin, Finola Merivale, and Yue Song, as well as Composer Lab mentor David Fennessy and workshop conductor Gavin Maloney. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
Composer Lab public workshop
Amelia Clarkson
CMC Composer Page
Barry O’Halpin
CMC Composer Page
Yue Song
CMC Composer Page
Pastures at Malahide
Finola Merivale
CMC Composer Page
Music
All music recorded during the Composer Lab workshop on 16 September 2024 by the National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney
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27 min
September 27, 2024amplify #111 - Rhona Clarke and Eric Skytterholm Egan at the ISCM World New Music Days 2024
CMC's podcast on artists active in New Music in Ireland returns with interviews recorded with two of the featured Irish composers at this year's ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. Recorded in June, the episode features conversations with composers Eric Skytterholm Egan and Rhona Clarke. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
ISCM World New Music Days 2024
ISCM
Eric Skytterholm Egan
CMC Composer Page
Rhona Clarke
CMC Composer Page
Music
Eric Skytterholm Egan - in some or other Oasis (2014 rev. 2023) (Lapland Chamber Orchestra), live performance at Tórshavn Music School, Tórshavn, Faroe Island, 24 June 2024. Video of concert available here.
Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (2020) (ARS NOVA Copenhagen, conductor Graham Ross), live performance at The Nordic House in Tórshavn, 29 June 2024. Video of concert available here.
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18 min
July 19, 2024amplify #110 - TERRAIN
An episode featuring a live panel discussion from Northern Ireland's newest contemporary music festival, TERRAIN in the Accidental Theatre, Belfast featuring Aisling Agnew, Lina Andanovska and Ian Wilson. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes

Aisling Agnew

Lina Andanovska

Ian Wilson

CMC Composer page
Music
All music featured in this episode was performed live at TERRAIN Music Festival on 18 May 2024

Improvisation 1 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (Drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)

A Winter Sketchbook - Jane O'Leary - Aisling Agnew (flute) & Petcu-Colan (violin)

Improvisation 2 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)

'Vigour, Rigour, Jigger' - Greg Caffrey - David McCann (cello) Episode Credits
Chief Sound Engineer: Martin Price
Sound Technician: Peter CunninghamPodcast Recording: Emma BainbridgeEditing: Keith Fennell
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23 min
July 03, 2024amplify #109 - Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin
An episode featuring a panel discussion from the Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin along with contributions from Shane Latimer and Izumi Kimura. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes

Topographies

Shane Latimer

Residuum

Izumi Kimura

Francis Heery

Elliot Murphy

Ellen King
Music

Shane Latimer - Ten Minutes in the Tumble Dryer

Shane Latimer, Izumi Kimura, Francis Heery, Ute Wasserman - live performance at Soweiso, Berlin, 23 May 2024

Ellen King - in situ, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024

Francis Heery - not knowing what brambles are, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024
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26 min
June 14, 2024amplify #108 - Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea on Gerald Barry's violin and piano music
Jonathan Grimes talks to violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea about recording and performing Gerald Barry's music. The conversation was recorded at the 2024 New Music Dublin Festival, and also features extracts from their 2022 album of the composer's works ‘In the Asylum'.Show Notes
Darragh Morgan
Mary Dullea
Gerald Barry
CMC Composer Page
Gerald Barry in Focus at New Music Dublin 2024
Music
All music taken from the album In the Asylum, Mode Records
Baroness von Ritkart: 1 - Clever, noble, but not talented, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio
Midday, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
1998, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
Le Vieux Sourd, (Mary Dullea, piano)
Recorded, presented and produced by Jonathan Grimes.
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14 min
May 31, 2024amplify #107 - Linda Buckley on her new work, Tuile agus Trá for Iarla Ó Lionáird and the National Symphony Orchestra
Back in April, as New Music Dublin 2024 was approaching, Evonne Ferguson sat down for a chat with Linda Buckley and Iarla Ó Lionáird to discuss Tuile agus Trá, a new work for the National Symphony Orchestra composed by Linda and dedicated to the memory of her mother, Mary Buckley.

Show Notes

Linda Buckley

CMC Composer page

Iarla Ó Lionáird

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

National Symphony Orchestra

New Music Dublin

National Concert Hall

The Creative Space @ CMC
Tuile agus Trá premiered on the 26 April in the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2024. It was broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm for a special episode of RTÉ lyric Live co-presented by Paul Herriott and John Harris. You can listen to the full broadcast here.
Tuile agus Trá was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and New Music Dublin.

Episode Credits

Presented by Evonne Ferguson
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell
Show NotesEpisode Credits
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21 min
May 17, 2024amplify #106 - Brian Irvine on his new work for Stone Drawn Circles, 'A Call to Arms'
A conversation with composer Brian Irvine, recorded during last month's New Music Dublin festival. Brian's work ‘A Call to Arms' was premiered by Stone Drawn Circles and he speaks to Jonathan Grimes about the background to the work and composing for the group. Show Notes
Brian Irivine
CMC Composer Page
Stone Drawn Cirles
Recorded and presented by Jonathan Grimes.
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15 min
May 10, 2024amplify #105 - Brian Bridges performs at CMC's New Music Dublin Exchange
A performance from composer electronic musician Brian Bridges, recorded at IMRO on 26 April during CMC's New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.Show Notes
Brian Bridges
New Music Dublin Exchange
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell.
CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for their funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
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11 min
May 09, 2024amplify #104 - Bianca Gannon performs at CMC's New Music Dublin Exchange
A performance from composer and improviser Bianca Gannon, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.
Show Notes

Bianca Gannon

New Music Dublin Exchange

Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell

CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for their funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
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18 min

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