Features 2011

Interview with Paul Roe [June]

Paul Roe, clarinetist, talks about CMC's Solo Series Live concert tour, which takes place from 16-19 June 2011.

Interview with Ronan Guilfoyle [June]

Ronan Guilfoyle talks to Jonathan Grimes about his approach to composing his electric guitar concerto for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and guitarist Rick Peckham.

Interview with Linda Buckley [May]

Composer Linda Buckley talks to Jonathan Grimes about her upcoming work for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Interview with Judith Ring [March]

Composer Judith Ring talks about the upcoming multidisciplinary music festival, Sensorium, which takes place from 7-12 March 2011 in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

Interview with Gavin Maloney [January]

In advance of RTÉ's first Horizons concert of 2011, which features the premiere of Kevin O'Connell's first symphony on 11 January 2011, conductor Gavin Maloney introduces the work with the help of musical examples.

Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 10 [December]

A series of interviews with the featured composers on CMC's latest promotional CD, Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 10.

Culture Night 2011 - Cliona Doris (harp) and Enda Bates (electronics) [November]

Performance from CMC's 2011 Culture Night of Enda Bates' new work 'Overture, an elegy to G.F. Handel', featuring Cliona Doris (harp) and Enda Bates (electronics).

Culture Night 2011: Cliona Doris and Linda Buckley [October]

Performance from CMC's Culture Night of Linda Buckley's new work "Their sound has gone out" featuring Dr. Cliona Doris (harp) and the composer(voice) with electronics.

CMC Salon: Concorde - Tine Verbeke (voice), Martin Johnson (cello) [October]

Extracts from CMC's Salon event which was held in September 2011. The performance featured Concorde members Tine Verbeke and Martin Johnson performing works by Elaine Agnew, Alyson Barber, Ed Bennett and James Wilson.

Culture Night 2011: Jonathan Nangle [September]

Spatial Music Collective member Jonathan Nangle talks about his work for Culture Night 2011, an outdoor installation, Trip the Light Fantastic, for CMC's courtyard.

Culture Night 2011: Spatial Music Collective - Linda Buckely and Enda Bates [September]

Spatial Music Collective members Linda Buckley and Enda Bates talk about their new works for harp, which will be performed by Cliona Doris in CMC as part of the Centre's Culture Night events on 23 September 2011.

Dublin Laptop Orchestra [September]

In advance of performances in August and September, Dan Trueman and Alex Dowling talk about the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, a group which they founded in 2011 with the aim of "bringing some theatricality and 'physical presence' into electronic music performance."

Crash Ensemble Free State VI [August]

An excerpt from the premiere performance of Seán Clancy's Basso Continuo taken from Free State VI, the Crash Ensemble's annual showcase of Irish composers, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in April 2011.

Solo Series Live: Isabelle O'Connell [August]

Isabelle O'Connell performs Donnacha Dennehy's Reservoir as part of CMC's Solo Series Live concert tour in June 2011.

Dublin Literary New Music Trail 2011 [July]

Sven Anderson and Karen Hennessy talk about the Dublin Literary New Music Trail, which runs until 31 August 2011.

Paul Roe Performs Monster by Ed Bennett [July]

An extract from Ed Bennett's work for bass clarinet and tape, Monster, performed at CMC's Platform for Performance by Paul Roe on 22 June 2011.

Ronan Guilfoyle: Composition Diary 2 [June]

The second in a series of regular video diaries from Ronan Guilfoyle documenting the composition of his Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra.

The Machine of Song - George Higgs [June]

A performance by the Sense Ensemble of George Higgs' Artist in the Community project.

CMC new music::new Ireland Salon Series - Thérèse Fahy [April]

Pianist Therese Fahy performs works by Frank Corcoran, Ed Bennett, and Ian Wilson during CMC's new music::new Ireland Salon on 30 March 2011.

Ronan Guilfoyle: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra [April]

A series of regular video diaries from Ronan Guilfoyle documenting the composition of his Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra.

Crash Ensemble: Free State VI [April]

CMC speaks to some of the composers featured in the upcoming Crash Ensemble Free State VI concert at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on 1 April 2011.

CMC new music::new Ireland Salon series - Ich ruf' zu Dir [March]

A short video of CMC's first new music::new Ireland Salon series of 2011, featuring arrangements of J.S Bach's chorale prelude Ich ruf' zu Dir by Benedict Schlepper Connolly, Garrett Sholdice and Jonathan Nangle.