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An episode featuring conversations with some of the creative team behind composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell’s cantata based on material from UCD Archives on the Irish Civil War. Featuring contributions from the composer, Principal Archivist at UCD Archives Kate Manning, the work’s librettist Ed Vulliamy, and Kellie Hughes. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.Show Notes Civil War Cantata Anne Marie O’Farrell CMC composer page UCD Archives Ed VulliamyMusicAll excerpts taken from premiere recording of Who’d Ever Think it Would Come to This? at O’Reilly Hall, UCD on 30 September 2022. Colette Delahunt (Soprano), Sharon Carty (Mezzo), Dean Power (Tenor) and Rory Musgrave (Baritone), Resurgam (Artistic Director Mark Dulley), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Ciarán Crilly. Recording by RTÉ lyric fm.

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CMC's podcast on new Irish music returns featuring conversations with composer Timothy Cape about his work and recent premiere at the Venice Biennale, flautist Aisling Agnew and Chilean journalist and composer Alvaro Gallegos on Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble's recent concert in Chile, and composer Ryan Molloy on attending the ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Timothy Cape
  • CMC composer page
  • Angela Wai-Nok Hui
  • labiennale.org
• Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
• Musicahora Festival
• ISCM
• Ryan Molloy
  • CMC composer page

Music

• Timothy Cape - Still Drowsy (Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, ARS LUDI)
• Timothy Cape - Sorry for the late reply
• Greg Caffrey - Tout (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell)
• John Buckley - Solo Fantasias (Aisling Agnew)
• Jane O'Leary - eather headed, frail, summoning (after Syrinx) (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell)
• Ryan Molloy - Ogham (Christchurch Youth Orchestra, conductor Helen Renaud)

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amplify #72 - ‘Future Music?': a discussion from Music Current 2022

Recorded in April as part of the Music Current 2022 festival, this episode features a discussion entitled ‘Future Music?' on musical life after the pandemic. Introduced and chaired by CMC Director Evonne Ferguson, the discussion, recorded at the Project Arts Centre in front of an audience, includes composer Natacha Diels, Music Current artistic director Fergal Dowling, and Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn.Show Notes

• FUTURE MUSIC? event details
• musiccurrent.ie
• Fergal Dowling
• Journal of Music
• Natacha Diels

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Conversations with some of the people involved in Beál's production of ‘Slow Recognition', a new chamber opera by David Bremner, director Hélène Montague and designer John Comiskey which premieres this month at Unit 44 in Stoneybatter, Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the episode features contributions from David Bremner, Hélène Montague, and singers Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Rory Musgrave and Elizabeth Hilliard.Show Notes

• Slow Recognition, 13–16 July 2022
• Unit 44 (Kirkos Ensemble)
• Beál
• David Bremner
  • davidbremner.net
  • CMC Composer Page
• Naomi Louisa O’Connell
• Rory Musgrave
• Elizabeth Hilliard

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amplify #70 - Ulysses Journey 2022 in Budapest and Paris

A special episode recorded last month in Budapest and Paris featuring conversations with some of the artists and people behind CMC's Ulysses Journey 2022 project. The episode includes contributions from Katalin Koltai, Benjamin Dwyer, Elizabeth Hilliard, Greg Caffrey, Nora Hickey M'Sichili, Darragh Black Hynes and Linda O'Shea Farren.Show Notes

• Ulysses Journey 2022
  • Concert at Budapest Music Center
  • Ulysses Journey 2022 Film Screenings at FUGA
  • Ulysses Journey 2022 - Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
• Katalin Koltai
• Benjamin Dwyer
• Budapest Music Center
• FUGA
• Elizabeth Hilliard
• Greg Caffrey
• Centre Culturel Irlandais
• Daragh Black Hynes

Music

Recordings performed by Katalin Koltai taken from concert on 15 June 2022 at Budapest Music Centre (BMC), recorded by Andras Kegl (BMC)

• Gráinne Mulvey - Soft Morning City!
• Benjamin Dwyer - Hommage á Ligeti
• Greg Caffrey - The Private Consciousness of Molly Bloom (with Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano)
• Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus

Cover photo: Andrea Felvegi

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The final instalment from this year's New Music Dublin 2022 festival features conversations with Amanda Feery about Creative Lab, a composition programme for young people from traditionally underrepresented groups, and Sam Perkin on his new work for Crash Ensemble and Diamanda La Berge Dramm, ‘Children in the Universe'. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• New Music Dublin
• Creative Lab
• Amanda Feery
  • CMC Composer Page
• Sam Perkin
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Crash Ensemble - Putting it into music

Music

• Sam Perkin - Flow
• Sam Perkin - Children in the Universe (Crash Ensemble, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, conductor Peter Biloen)

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A selection of conversations recorded during this year’s New Music Dublin festival. The episode features interviews with the participating composers in CMC and Chamber Choir Ireland’s Choral Sketches project, the Crash Ensemble’s Crash Works event, and interviews with New Music Dublin festival artistic director John Harris, and Ergodos Records co-artistic director, Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes New Music Dubin Choral Sketches Chamber Choir Ireland Peter Moran petermoranmusic.com CMC composer page Eoghan Desmond www.eoghandesmond.com CMC composer page David Bremner davidbremner.net CMC composer page Kerry Hagan kerrylhagan.net CMC composer page Crash Works Anselm McDonnell anselmguitar.co.uk CMC composer page Peter Biloen Amy Rooney Ergodos Totemic NARLI Garrett SholdiceMusic Ian Wilson - Totemic (Alex Petcu, Nathan Sherman) Recordings taken from Choral Sketches workshop Recording taken from Crash Works open session Benedict Schlepper Connolly - One Thing I Know

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The second of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion with George Higgs and live performance of his multisensory piece ‘Music for 5 Silent Poems', a work commissioned by New Music Dublin for live and online performance via Instagram.Show Notes

• New Music Dubin
• Music for 5 Silent Poems
• George Higgs
  • georgehiggs.com
  • CMC Composer Page
• Watch the live performance on Instagram (from 15 mins onwards)

Music

• Music for 5 Silent Poems performed live by George Higgs (sampler), Jessica Kennedy (sign language poems), Billy O'Brien (piano), Rossa O'Neil (trombone), Brian Kelly (double bass)

Live recording: Keith FennellEditing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes

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The first of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion on Joyce and new music and CMC's Ulysses Journey Project with composers Benjamin Dwyer and Frank Corcoran, and CMC's Linda O'Shea Farren. The episode was recorded at the National Concert Hall on 29 April.Show Notes

• New Music Dubin
• Benjamin Dwyer
  • benjamindwyer.com
  • CMC Composer Page
• Frank Corcoran
  • frankcorcoran.com
  • CMC Composer Page
• Ulysses Journey
  • amplify #59

Music

• Frank Corcoran - Quasi Una Missa

Live recording: Keith FennellEditing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes

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Episode 65 pays tribute to composer John Kinsella, who passed away last November at the age of 89. The episode features an in depth contribution from Séamas de Barra, author of a forthcoming book on Kinsella's music, as well as contributions from Séamus Crimmins, Gerry Keenan and Katherine Hunka about the composer's life and work. Presented by Evonne Ferguson, with interviews by Jonathan Grimes.Show Notes

• John Kinsella
• Irish Times Obituary
• Seamás de Barra - The Symphonies of John Kinsella, doctoral thesis
• Cross Currents radio series

Music

• Symphony No. 6 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• Prelude and Toccata (Irish Chamber Orchestra)
• Symphony No. 9 (Irish Chamber Orchestra)
• Homage a Clarance (Irish Chamber Orchestra)
• Symphony No. 4 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• String Quartet No. 3 (RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet)
• Symphony No. 1 (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Albert Rosen)
• Symphony No. 3 - III (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• Symphony No. 11 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean Deroyer
• Symphony No. 7 - Epilogue (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney)
• Montage 2 (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce.)
• A Selected Life (RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce)
• String Quartet No. 3 (RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet)
• Symphony No. 4 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• Symphony No. 3: II (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• Symphony No. 3: I (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)
• Symphony No. 3: V (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn)

Prodcution and editing: Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell

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