amplify

A live podcast recorded during New Music Dublin 2023 with some of the composers and artists featured at this year's festival. Composers Úna Monaghan, Kevin Volans and Susan Geaney, and conductor David Brophy join special guest American broadcaster and writer John Schaefer (New Sounds, WNYC) and CMC's Jonathan Grimes in conversation.Show Notes

• New Music Dublin
• John Schaefer
• Úna Monaghan
• Kevin Volans
  • CMC Composer Page
• Susan Geaney
• Quiet Music Ensemble
• David Brophy

Recorded on 22 April 2023 in the Iveagh Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Sound: Keith Fennell

Thanks to New Music Dublin and the National Concert Hall for hosting this event

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A discussion recorded during this year’s Finding a Voice festival in Clonmel featuring composers Jacqueline Fletcher, Áine Mallon and Gráinne Mulvey. This discussion, which took place on 11 March 2023, is introduced and chaired by CMC Director, Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Finding a Voice Festival
• Áine Mallon
  • CMC Composer Page
• Gráinne Mulvey
• Jacqueline Fletcher wins Finding a Voice 2023 Emerging Composer Competition

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Composer Deirdre Gribbin talks to Jonathan Grimes about composing music for the film documentary, ‘Stolen’, writing her new cello concerto, the importance of narrative in her music, and her thoughts on the plight of women composers today.Show Notes

• Deirdre Gribbin
  • CMC Composer Page

Music

• Deirdre Gribbin - Hearing your Genes Evolve (Spero Quartet), live recording from the Hugh Lane Gallery, 26 February 2023
• Deirdre Gribbin - music from the film Stolen (director Margo Harkin)
• Deirdre Gribbin - extract from Embers, a radio drama starring Patrick Stewart adapted and directed by Lou Stein from a BBC Radio 3 Drama production by Lou Stein Associates
• Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Song (Fidelio Trio), NMC Recordings

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Episode 81 features highlights from the Belfast launch in January 2023 of CMC’s promotional album, New Music::New Ireland 4, and conversations with the composers who participated in Composer Lab, a professional development initiative delivered in partnership by the National Symphony Orchestra and CMC, in association with RTE lyric fm.Show Notes

• new music::new Ireland 4 showcase launch
  • New Music::New Ireland 4
• Amy Rooney
• Karen Power
  • CMC Composer Page
• Ian Wilson
  • CMC Composer Page
• John Buckley
  • CMC Composer Page
• Piers Hellawell
  • CMC Composer Page
• Judith Ring
  • CMC Composer Page
• Anselm McDonnell
  • CMC Composer Page
• Composer Lab 2022
• Seán Ó Dálaigh
• Adam McCartney

Music

All music taken from the New Music::New Ireland 4 Showcase launch on 26 January 2023 and the Composer Lab 2022 premiere performance and broadcast on 9 January 2023

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amplify returns with the first episode of 2023. Featuring Roger Doyle on his work and his recent album, ‘Finnegans Wake - Suite Of Affections Volume 2’, and a conversation recorded in Cork last December with Linda Buckley on her new work for the Ficino String Quartet, ‘Circuit Bend’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.Show Notes

• Roger Doyle
  • CMC Composer Page
• Roger Doyle - Bandcamp
  • Finnegans Wake - Suite of Affections Volume 2
• New Music::New Ireland 4
• Linda Buckley
  • CMC Composer Page
• Ficino Quartet - Triskel
• National String Quartet Foundation

Music

• Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell)
• Roger Doyle - Dreamwings Folded (instrumental)
• Roger Doyle - Is That The Poolbeg Flasher
• Roger Doyle - Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth
• Roger Doyle - Nova Nuvoletta (instrumental)
• Roger Doyle - Recess
• Roger Doyle - This The Way To The Museyroom
• Roger Doyle - Jymes Wishes To Hear
• Roger Doyle - And Can it Be
• Linda Buckley - Circuit Bend (Ficino Quartet), recorded live on 11 December 2023, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall
• Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell)

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Recorded this September, Sebastian Adams talks to Jonathan Grimes about his experiences on the Cursus programme at IRCAM in Paris.Show Notes

• Sebastian Adams
  • CMC Composer Page
• Cursus Programme
• stolenmusic.org

Music

All Music by Sebastian Adams

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This week, amplify marks the 25th anniversary of the Crash Ensemble with interviews with Artistic Director, Kate Ellis as well as founding member and the ensemble’s first Artistic Director, Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show NotesCrash Ensemble[reactions]Donnacha DennehyMusicBarry O’Halpin - LethargarianÉna Brennan - RunawayDavid Fennessy - JackBarry O’Halpin - WingformSam Perkin - Children in the UniverseBarry O’Halpin - Wingform

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Episode 77 features conversations with composer Neil Martin and pianist Ruth McGinley about their album ‘Aura’, a collection of Irish airs written and arranged by Neil Martin, and Neil O’Connor AKA Ordnance Survey on his latest release ‘Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Neil Martin
  • CMC Composer Page
• Ruth McGinley
• Neil O’Connor
  • CMC Composer Page
• 20:31 - Spectrogram of a violin playing a note and then a perfect fifth above it with the shared partials highlighted by the white dashes (harmonic spectra)

Music

• Neil O’Connor - Bog Braon
• Aura - Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin
• Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined - Neil O’Connor

Production and editing - Keith Fennell

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amplify #76 - new music::new Ireland Four launch

Recorded at this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, episode 76 includes conversations with some of the artists on CMC's new promotional album, new music::new Ireland Four. Featuring flautist Lina Andonovska, composers Rhona Clarke, Anselm McDonnell, and Ian Wilson, the episode also includes an interview with hcmf Artistic Director Graham McKenzie on the festival's three-year partnership with Culture Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• new music::new Ireland four
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - hcmf
• Ulysses Journey 2022 at hcmf
• Stephen Graham
• Anselm McDonnell
• Lina Andonovska
• Rhona Clarke
• Ian Wilson

Music

• Nick Roth - A Loved A Long (Lina Andonovska)
• Anselm McDonnell - Engines of Babel (Crash Ensemble)
• Judith Ring - A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska)
• Rhona Clarke - Seen from Above (Adam Walker (fl), Hélène Clément (viola), Agnès Clément (harp)
• Ian Wilson - Wild is the Wind (Gareth Davis (bass clarinet)

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Episode 75 features a conversation with Jane O’Leary about her work for piano and orchestra ‘Unfolding Soundscapes’, premiered last month by Finghin Collins and the National Symphony Orchestra, and Matthew Whiteside and David Fennessy on ‘The Night With’ concert in Belfast, which featured a new commission from David Fennessy for the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• The Night With
  • Robinson Panoramic Quartet - Belfast
• David Fennessy
  • CMC Composer Page
• Robinson Panoramic Quartet
• Matthew Whiteside
  • CMC Composer Page
• Jane O’Leary
  • CMC Composer Page

Music

• Jane O’Leary - Unfolding Soundscapes (Finghin Collins - piano, National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery)
• David Fennessy - Slate (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022)
• Matthew Whiteside - Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022)

Production and editing: Keith Fennell

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