amplify #34 - composer Donnacha Dennehy on his current projects, and clarinettist Carol McGonnell on collaborating with composers

Episode 34 of CMC’s podcast. Evonne Ferguson talks to US-based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy about his current work, musical preoccupations and his experiences of composing during lockdown, Jonathan Grimes talks to Irish clarinettist and new music specialist Carol McGonnell about her life and work, and music from Gráinne Mulvey recorded by Elizabeth Hilliard and Anselm McDonnell for CMC’s recent online Salon event.

Show Notes

Donnacha Dennehy

• Composer web site
• CMC Composer Page
• The Last Hotel
• The Second Violinist

Music

• Donnacha Dennehy - The Last Hotel: Breathe Deep (
• Donnacha Dennehy - O (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney
• Donnacha Dennehy - Tessellatum (Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne)
• Ockeghem - Deo Gratias (Huelgas Ensemble)
• Donnacha Dennehy - Swift’s Epitaph (Andrew Watts and Owen Gunnell)

Carol McGonnell

• Argento Chamber Ensemble

Music

• Ann Cleare - eyam v (woven) (Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney)
• Irene Buckley - Choral
• Ryan Molloy - Cantaireacht (Carol McGonnell)
• Ann Cleare - eyam i (it takes an ocean not to)

CMC St. Brigid’s Day/La Fhéile Bríde 2021 event

• Gráinne Mulvey - A Carlow Song Cycle: Poem #43 (Elizabeth Hilliard, Anselm McDonnell)