New Music Digest: 6 – 11 May
Events This Week:
Kirkos Ensemble, the RIAM resident student contemporary group, present K3, with music by Irish composers.
- 6 May, 8pm, Sugar Club, Harcourt Street, Dublin
An arrangement of Erik Satie's Relache for string orchestra by Ian Wilson will be performed in Germany
- 7 May, 7.30pm, Heilbronn Theatre, Heilbronn, Germany
- 10 May, 7.30pm, Heilbronn Theatre, Heilbronn, Germany
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The 3rd Women and Music in Ireland conference takes place in St Patrick's College Drumcondra, exploring both contemporary and historical examples of women in music.
- 10 May, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra
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Donegal Camerata perform Vincent Kennedy's Beautiful Peace - Butterflies over Garten at a Sundays in Conwal concert
- 11 May, Conwal Church, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
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The SPOR experimental music festival takes place in Aarhus this week, curated by composer/performer Jennifer Walshe
- 8 – 11 May, Aarhus, Denmark
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The Barrow River Arts Festival, directed by Barry Guy and Maya Homburger, takes place this week.
- 9 – 11 May, Carlow
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Music/text company Béal present a concert called The Dukes of Banjax with David Bremner (piano) and Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano) in which they will perform two works by Bremner.
- 9 May, 8.30pm, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
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The first Irish performance of John Adams' Nixon in China presented by Wide Open Opera begins on Sunday
- 11 May, 7.30pm, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
- 14 May, 7.30pm, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
- 17 May, 7.30pm, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
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Watch:
A short film by Mark Linnane about the life and work of Frank Corcoran on his 70th birthday
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