Crash Ensemble to mark its 10th year with a ‘mammoth weekend’ of concerts.

Contemporary Irish music is to be the focus on two concerts on 12 and 13 October, the first titled ‘Free State 2007’, the second an all-day event appropriately called ‘Marathon’. Both events celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Dublin-based new music ensemble and will take place at Saint Michael and John’s, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Aiming to ‘illustrate that new electronic and contemporary composition is extremely fertile in Ireland today’, Free State 2007 includes first performances of works by Gerald Barry, Derek Ball, Linda Buckley, Roger Doyle, Julie Feeney, Jonathan Nangle and Garrett Sholdice. The evening will also include the premiere of the winning submission in the Open Call for new Electronic Music.

Beginning at noon, Marathon offers ‘a first-rate introduction to a veritable A-Z of international contemporary classical composers’. It will feature a new Sean Nós setting by Donnacha Dennehy (sung by Iarla Ó Lionáird, who will also give the second Dublin performance of Grá agus Bás) and the European premiere of his Stainless Staining, performed by Bang on a Can All Stars pianist Lisa Moore.

The day-long concert will also feature Irish premieres of works by Louis Andriessen, Ivan Moody and Martin Bresnick alongside music by Kevin Volans, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Kaija Saariaho.

For further information, please see our Calendar, phone +353 1 872 1122 or visit www.ctb.ie.

Posted: 13 September 2007