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For Immediate Release

The Contemporary Music Centre New Music Marathon

19 April 2010

The Contemporary Music Centre presents its annual marathon of new music by student composers and performers at the University of Limerick (UL), 1200pm - 600pm, Friday 23 April 2010. The marathon takes place in the new rehearsal studio of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and is hosted by the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC), formally the CCMCM.

Numerous concerts of new music take place throughout the day, programmed by Jürgen Simpson, Composer and Head of the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre. This year RTÉ LyricFM cover the event for their contemporary music programme Nova, and Eoin Brady, producer of Nova gives a talk on the do's and don't's of submitting material for radio broadcast as part of the day's programme.

Composition and performance students from University of Limerick (UL), University College Cork (UCC,) Trinity College Dublin (TCD), NUI Maynooth, the University of Ulster and Queens University Belfast are all participating.

The concert programmes for the day will be an eclectic mix of new instrumental, electro-acoustic and electronic music. The Contemporary Music Centre will document the marathon throughout the day with video coverage and a special video podcast will be on the Centre's web site www.cmc.ie after the event.

'The Contemporary Music Centre has been organizing the annual new music marathon since 2006 and it is now firmly established as an important day in the calendar of composition and performance students not only for the performance opportunity that it offers but also for the opportunity for students from all around the Island of Ireland to meet and discuss their work' says Karen Hennessy, Promotion Manager, The Contemporary Music Centre.

The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

The Contemporary Music Centre would like to acknowledge the support of the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC) at the University of Limerick and the Irish Chamber Orchestra for hosting this year's marathon and RTÉ LyricFM for covering the event.

Admission to all concerts during the day is free. For more information and details of the concert programmes please contact Karen Hennessy, Promotion Manager, The Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. Tel. 01 673 1922, email: khennessy@cmc.ie.