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Press Release

'Lost in Bar 20' Featuring Darragh Morgan

Dublin, 1 January 2004

The Contemporary Music Centre's next new music 'Salon' takes place in the Contemporary Music Centre library at 3.00pm on Saturday 17 January 2004. Darragh Morgan, violin, will play works by Frank Lyons, Simon Mawhinney, Fergus Johnston and Bill Campbell. Admission Free. Booking required.

For further details and booking: Karen Hennessy, Promotion Manager. Tel: 01 673 1922. Mailto:khennessy@cmc.ie web site: www.cmc.ie.

Information on all composers featured in the January Salon can be found on the CMC web site at www.cmc.ie

These events are made possible through the continued support of The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

The Contemporary Music Centre is based in Dublin's Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar. Located in the heart of the capital city, Temple Bar is home to more than fifty arts and cultural organizations. To find out more, check out the Temple Bar Cultural Calendar www.templebar.ie.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

To date the CMC Salons have presented works by Rhona Clarke, Eibhlis Farrell, Roger Doyle, Jane O' Leary, Rob Canning and Grainne Mulvey. Clarke's Jagged Edge and Farrell's Conversation II were played by Alan Smale, violin and Annette Cleary, cello, in the first Salon in October 2003. During the second Salon in November 2003, Paul Roe, clarinet, played O' Leary's Within/Without and Canning's Continuum. In each salon Doyle and Mulvey presented electro-acoustic works, and lively discussion and debate was generated amongst the audience, performers and composers, which continued after each event, held in the Project Cube, upstairs in the Project Bar.

The idea for the Salon arose from a growing awareness in CMC that there is no forum in which new work can be heard outside the pressure of a formal concert situation with paying audiences and critics. With the generous co-operation of professional musicians who are working on an expenses-only basis, works will receive informal read-throughs (hence the somewhat flippant series title of 'Lost in Bar 20') followed by an open discussion with the composers, performers and audience. Just as, in the nineteenth century, composers, writers and artists would gather informally to discuss one another's work and explore the ideas of the day, this initiative aims to offer a platform to experiment with new work, listen to some of those rare second performances of recent compositions, and generally discuss and debate issues in contemporary music.

Darragh Morgan
Born in Belfast in 1974 Darragh Morgan is much in demand as an exponent of new music. He performs regularly with EnsembleModern and has also appeared with the London Sinfonietta, Icebreaker and Musik Fabrik amongst others. He has given solo recitals at Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, Aldeburgh Festival, Ars Musica, Sonorities Festival and many others. Darragh is also involved in the Pop industry and the world of traditional music. He recently recorded his first solo CD 'Cusp' for Black Box Music.

Information on all composers featured in the January Salon can be found on the CMC web site at www.cmc.ie

These events are made possible through the continued support of The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

The Contemporary Music Centre is based in Dublin's Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar. Located in the heart of the capital city, Temple Bar is home to more than fifty arts and cultural organizations. To find out more, check out the Temple Bar Cultural Calendar www.templebar.ie.