The Contemporary Music Centre is producing a CD recording and concert of music by Brian Boydell in conjunction with an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art this summer.

Boydell, who subsequently opted to pursue music rather than art, was a member of the so-called White Stag group of British artists who based themselves in Ireland in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

A major exhibition of works by the group -- containing two of Boydell’s paintings -- opens at IMMA on 5 July 2005 and runs across the summer.

In a joint project by the Museum and CMC, a CD recording of compositions from this period in his life will form part of the exhibition catalogue. The works will also be performed live in a concert at IMMA on 17 July.

The pieces are The Feather of Death (1943), String Quartet No. 1 (1947) and the Oboe Quintet (1940) performed by the leading international ConTempo string quartet (currently Galway’s Quartet in Residence) with Roland Davitt (baritone), Ríona Ó Duinnín (flute) and Síle Daly (oboe).

Posted: 12 May 2005