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The Contemporary Music Centre Presents Crash Ensemble : Live at Your Place

5 June 2012

Staff at Dublin City's Council's Traffic Control Centre will swap the stress of roadworks and traffic jams for the thrill of live music, as the Contemporary Music Centre launches CMC's Live at Your Place, presenting new Irish music in unexpected places. Musicians from Crash Ensemble will give an intimate early morning concert to staff at the council's offices on Wood Quay as part of love:live music, Ireland's celebration of National Music Day on Thursday 21st June.

Commuters across Dublin will be able to listen in as the concert is broadcast on Dublin City FM's Live Drive (103.2FM) from 8.30am.

CMC has invited Crash Ensemble members, Clíodhna Ryan (violin) and Kate Ellis (cello) to perform the concert, which features music by Irish composers, Enda Bates, Judith Ring and Benedict Schlepper Connolly. It will be among the first events of the day in love:live music, which promises free live music in cities, towns and villages all over the country.

Speaking about the event, Director of the Contemporary Music Centre, Evonne Ferguson said: "We're delighted to be working with musicians from Crash Ensemble to launch CMC's Live at Your Place as part of love:live music. Here at CMC, we want to share as much of the wealth of New Irish music with as wide an audience as possible. Through this event, staff at the Traffic Control Centre of Dublin City Council and listeners to Dublin City FM will experience music from one of Ireland's most groundbreaking ensembles and three of its most exciting composers. It might not be what they are expecting when they arrive at work or turn on the radio, but we're confident that they will love it!"

Crash Ensemble is Ireland's foremost contemporary music ensemble: a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous new music of today and attract enthusiastic audiences to their ground-breaking music experiences.

"Crash Ensemble, an Irish new-music collective with international cachet and considerable chops" The Washington Post, 2011

love:live music is Ireland's celebration of National Music Day on Thursday 21st June through free live music events in cities, towns and villages all over the country. Initiated by Music Network, it is an open invitation to everyone to make music everywhere. It aims to promote access to live music for everyone; demonstrate the importance of music in our lives and in our society; highlight the diversity of music practice in all musical genres in today's Ireland. love:live music is presented by Music Network in association with RTÉ Lyric FM and funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Arts Council Deis Funding.

CMC's Live at Your Place

Date: June 21st, 2012
Time: 8.30am-9am
Venue: Traffic Control Centre, Dublin City Council, Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin 8

Please note: This is a workplace event and is only open to staff and visitors at DCC's Traffic Control Centre

Live Public Broadcast: June 21st 2012, Dublin City 103.2FM, Live Drive, 8.30-9.30am.

PROGRAMME

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly - Star (arranged for Crash Ensemble 2012)
Enda Bates - Duo and Tape (2011)
Judith Ring - Up to my f-holes (2008)

FOR MEDIA INFORMATION, INTERVIEWS AND PICTURES CONTACT:
Sam Wilcock, Promotion Manager
Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
Tel: 01-6731922
Email: swilcock@cmc.ie
www.cmc.ie

Crash Ensemble Contact:
Neva Elliott, General Manager
Tel: 01-8586645
Email: admin@crashensemble.com
www.crashensemble.com

NOTES FOR EDITORS

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. It engages in an ongoing programme of development work to promote new Irish music at home and abroad, and is a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC). The Centre is used, nationally and internationally, by performers, composers, promoters and members of the public interested in finding out more about music in Ireland. Its library and sound archive, open to the public free of charge, contain the only comprehensive collection in existence of music by Irish composers. Extensive reference and advice services are available and the Centre's web site provides access to CMC's resources for those who cannot visit in person.

www.cmc.ie
www.twitter.com/cmcireland

Crash Ensemble
Crash Ensemble is Ireland's foremost contemporary music ensemble; a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous, ground-breaking new music of today.

Crash Ensemble, an Irish new-music collective with international cachet and considerable chops The Washington Post, 2011

Upcoming performances include the Galway Arts Festival 19th July 2012, a three date residency at The Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival November 2012 which includes opening the festival with a portrait of ensemble co-artistic director Donnacha Dennehy. The ensemble will also play Carnegie Hall, NYC The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, and Princeton University as part of the 2013 US Tour.

Nico Muhly named the 'hottest composer on the planet' (The Telegraph) and Ireland's 'inimitable' (The Independent UK) composer and producer Daniel Figgis have recently written compositions especially for the group.

The ensemble has also worked with many well-known artists from diverse musical backgrounds, such as Nico Muhly, Steve Reich, Gavin Friday, Dawn Upshaw, Terry Riley, David Lang, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Julie Feeney, Gerald Barry, Gavin Bryars, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Louis Andriessen.

Crash Ensemble features on recordings by labels such as NMC, Cantaloupe and most recently Nonesuch, with the release of their internationally acclaimed 2011 album Grá agus Bás by Donnacha Dennehy (5 stars, The Guardian).

www.crashensemble.com
www.twitter.com/crashensemble

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly was born in Dublin to an Irish father and German mother. He studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College, Dublin, and Justin Dello Joio at New York University. He has also studied privately with Marc Sabat in Berlin and Larry Polansky in Hanover, New Hampshire. His studies in the United States were supported by the Bill Whelan Composition Bursary.

Benedict is a Director of Ergodos, the Dublin-based music company that he founded with Garrett Sholdice in 2006. Ergodos produces festivals, concerts and recordings, and is a regular commissioner of new work. Benedict Schlepper-Connolly is Deputy Editor of 'The Journal of Music', an international music magazine to which he regularly contributes as a writer.

Enda Bates
Enda Bates is a composer, musician, producer and academic based in Dublin, Ireland. In March 2010, he completed a PhD in composition at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied with Donnacha Dennehy and Dr. Dermot Furlong.

His music includes both acoustic and electroacoustic contemporary music and multi-channel, electronic music, and the use of spatially distributed sounds is a major feature of his work. He has received various commissions and awards including the 37th Florilege Vocal de Tours, the 2008 Irish National Choir of the Year competition, the 2009 Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist and the 2010 Música Viva Competition. His work has been performed by, among others, the Crash Ensemble, Anne La Berge, the Doelen Quartet, Trio Scordatura, New Dublin Voices, the Miso Music Loudspeaker Orchestra and at international festivals including the Música Viva Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, the International Computer Music Conference and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival.

He is a founder member of the Spatial Music Collective and also regularly performs with the Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Miriam Ingram and Fairlights.

Judith Ring
Judith Ring was born in Dublin. She studied Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin with Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle. She was awarded the Elizabeth Maconchy fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland, enabling her to coplete a PhD in composition at the University of York, England, with Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh.

She has received commissions from ensembles including Concorde, Crash Ensemble, Trio Scordatura and Percusemble as well as composing a series of solo and tape works with performers such as singer Natasha Lohan, clarinettist Paul Roe, percussionist Damien Harron and an acoustic piece for pianist Rolf Hind. Her works have also been used in the Dance Theatre of Ireland's shows, 'Evidence' and 'Prism'. In 2005/6 she collaborated with choreographers from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. She has written music for two short films by Barry Dowling and Diarmuid Goggins. In 2002 she co-composed music with Jürgen Simpson for video artist Clare Langan's work 'Glass Hour'. The work was exhibited at the Tate Liverpool, RHA Dublin and MoMa New York. In July 2009 she was the guest composer at the Irish composition summer school working alongside Nicola LeFanu, Martin O'Leary and John McLachlan.

Music Network
Music Network is a professional arts organisation, funded by The Arts Council, committed to promoting, encouraging and funding the highest standards of music creation and performance throughout the island of Ireland. In pursuit of these objectives Music Network delivers a continuous programme of music-related events that are locally accessible throughout the country, which makes Music Network ideally placed to coordinate Ireland's national music day love:live music.

love:live music is presented by Music Network in association with RTÉ Lyric FM and funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Arts Council Deis Funding.

www.musicnetwork.ie / www.lovelivemusic.ie

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