CMC Courtyard Sessions: Malachy Robinson (double bass)

The second event in CMC’s Courtyard Sessions, a short series of outdoor performances recorded in CMC’s Courtyard, features a short performance by renowned Irish double bassist, Malachy Robinson.

Performing a varied programme of music by composers Eoghan Desmond and Judith Ring, as well as an arrangement by Malachy, the event showcases this unique instrument in an intimate outdoor setting.

Malachy Robinson has been a chamber musician all his musical life, attracted to conversational music of all genres. As principal bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 1995 he has toured the world. He is also a member of the Crash Ensemble, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Gregory Walkers, the Robinson Panoramic Quartet, and the Far Flung Trio, to name a few. Solo double bass performances have included many Irish premieres, and he frequently works closely with composers. He is also active as a composer, his most recent work being a collaboration with poet Jane Robinson: For the Atoll was premiered at the 2021 Killaloe Chamber Music Festival.

His solo album The Irish Double Bass includes the three pieces performed in this programme and will be released later this year.

PROGRAMME

Eoghan Desmond - Variations for Solo Double Bass (2014)

Judith Ring - Twilight (2018) (bass edition by Malachy Robinson 2020)

My Lagan Love - trad. arr. Malachy Robinson 2021 (words by Joseph Campbell)