Irish composers Fergal Dowling and Gráinne Mulvey will represent Ireland in the 2009 ISCM World Music Days in Sweden.

Taking place from 24 September to 5 October in a number of cities in Sweden, the works selected are Dowling's Manchester Material and Mulvey's Stabat Mater. They were selected by an international jury from more than 400 entries from some fifty different nations.

Manchester Material (for 8 loudspeakers) is one of a series of multichannel studies in which Dowling uses algorithmic computer techniques to animate thousands of urban environmental samples -- recorded over a wide area throughout Ireland and Britain -- in a precise spatial choreography. It has also been selected for inclusion in the Japanese Society of Electronic Music / Musicological Society of Japan Electroacoustic Festival 2009. The work will be performed in the opening concert of electro-acoustic pieces at the Aichi Art Theatre, Nagoya on 9 April 2009.

Gráinne Mulvey's Stabat Mater for mixed choir was commissioned by the Cork International Choral Festival and first performed in 2003 by the National Chamber Choir under conductor Celso Antunes.

Further information on all the international selected works and the festival programming is available from the ISCM 2009 web site.

Posted: 14 April 2009