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The Contemporary Music Centre at Waterford New Music Week 2013

25 January 2013

The Contemporary Music Centre takes its new music::new Ireland Salon on the road to Waterford to present a free lunchtime concert of new Irish music featuring Paul Roe (clarinet) and Kate Ellis (cello) as part of Waterford New Music Week.

The concert will take place in the Central Library, Lady Lane, from 1-2pm on Wednesday 6 February. The programme will include solos and duos by Linda Buckley, Deirdre McKay, Emma O'Halloran and Eric Sweeney.

Paul Roe and Kate Ellis, two of the country's leading contemporary music performers, will informally introduce the works. Several of the composers will also be present to talk about their music.

In addition, CMC's audiovisual exhibition The Art of Sound will be on display at the Central Library for the duration of the festival (4-11 February). The exhibition, which features photography by Eugene Langan and an audio guide with music and narration, explores the creative process from initial idea to first performance, focussing on some of Ireland's most distinctive musical voices.

A number of other events taking place at Waterford New Music Week also feature Irish composers represented by the Contemporary Music Centre. They include:

• A new song cycle by Marian Ingoldsby and a work for guitar by Linda Buckley in the lunchtime concert on Monday 4 February.
• The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet's evening concert on Wednesday 5 February includes Raymond Deane's Embers and Deirdre McKay's Mr Shah stares to the Heavens.
• Linda Buckley will lead a day-long workshop exploring the similarities in creating music for different forces; from electronics and electroacoustic works, to writing for symphony orchestra or the human voice (Monday 4 Feb)
• Other workshop events will be led by Eric Sweeney (Thursday 7 Feb), Ben Hanlon (Friday 8 Feb) and Marian Ingoldsby (Saturday 9 Feb)

For further information contact Sam Wilcock, Promotion Manager, Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. (Tel: 01 673 1922 / email: swilcock@cmc.ie / web site: www.cmc.ie)

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CMC new music::new Ireland Salon with Paul Roe (clarinet) and Kate Ellis (cello)

Programme includes:
Linda Buckley: Moonsick
Deirdre McKay: Between
Emma O' Halloran: Truth and Beauty
Eric Sweeney: Comhrá (new arrangement for clarinet and cello)

The Central Library, Lady Lane, Waterford; Wednesday 6 February, 1-2pm (admission free)

More information: Sam Wilcock, Promotion Manager, Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 (tel. 01 673 1922 / email: swilcock@cmc.ie / web site: www.cmc.ie)

Kate Ellis, cello
Kate Ellis is a dedicated soloist and chamber musician. She is cellist and Co-artistic Director of the Crash Ensemble and performs and tours with Gavin Friday, the Karan Casey band and Yurodny. She is also a core member of the ensemble Tarab. As a soloist Kate has commissioned and premiered many new works for solo cello. Kate is a prize-winning graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and studied at the Purcell School and junior department of the Royal College of Music in London. In July 2011 Kate became musician in residence at the Cork Opera House working as co-curator of the Reich Effect, a festival marking the 75th year of Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Reich. She is continuing her residency throughout 2012/13 with a series of solo concerts and collaborations with other Irish and International musicians.
www.kateelliscello.com

Paul Roe, clarinet
Paul Roe is a musician with particular interests in performance, research, education and participative music making. He has a PhD in Performance Practice from the University of York, a Masters Degree in Community Music from the University of Limerick and is a Fellow of Trinity College, London. He is a performer (clarinet and bass clarinet) of international repute and was Associate Principal Clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland from 1987-2000. He has been a member of Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble since 1989 and has given solo, ensemble and orchestral performances throughout Europe, Asia and America. He is a member of the teaching staff at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. He also works in the area of collaborative arts practice for a variety of organizations including Dublin City Council, Music Network, the National Youth Orchestra and the Arts Council of Ireland.

Paul has performed with many distinguished musicians and ensembles including, Con Tempo String Quartet (Romania/Ireland), Crash Ensemble (Ireland), George Lewis (Trombone-USA), Harry Sparnaay (Bass Clarinet-Holland), Garth Knox (Viola-France), Lenneke Ruiten (Soprano-Holland) and Finghin Collins (Piano-Ireland). He is a member of several chamber music groups, with whom he plays a wide range of music from classical to contemporary repertoire. In recent years he has performed with these groups in Chicago, Atlanta, Vilnius, Paris, Rotterdam, York, London, Barcelona, Ljubljana, Bratislava and Riga. He is a keen advocate for the composition and performance of contemporary music and as a member of Concorde regularly performs new music both nationally and internationally. In 2008 Paul received a Fulbright Scholars award to study Klezmer performance at Mannes College of Music, New York, where he worked with the internationally acclaimed clarinettist David Krakauer.
www.paulroe.org

Waterford New Music Week
Waterford New Music Week takes place between Monday 4 and Sunday 11 February 2013. Seven venues across the city will host performances, discussions & workshops. The theme of this year's festival is 'new music - new audiences' and new work from over 30 composers will be performed by over 100 musicians. Waterford New Music Week has been exposing unsuspecting ears and minds to the new, the different and the infrequently heard for the last 14 years. The festival is co-presented by the Department of Creative & Performing Arts, WIT and Garter Lane Arts Centre, with support from the Arts Council and Waterford City Council. 2013 festival partners include RTÉ Lyric fm, the Contemporary Music Centre, Theatre Royal, Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford City Council Library Service, Access Cinema and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
www.wit.ie/news/details/events/new_music_week_2013

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 website provides access to CMC's resources for those who cannot visit in person.
www.cmc.ie