New Music Digest: 8 – 14 Dec

imageEvents This Week:

Brian Irvine's tour of A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing for schools continues across the country.

  • 9 Dec, 10.15am, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise
  • 10 Dec, 10.15am, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
  • 11 Dec, 10am, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
  • 12 Dec, 11.15am, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
  • 13 Dec, 3pm, The Ark, Temple Bar, Dublin

A concert of Christmas carols by New Dublin Voices features Sean Doherty's recent award-winning A Nywe Werk and Eoin Mulvany's Oíche Ciuin.

  • 13 Dec, 8pm, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
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The Irish Composers' Collective present a workshop on composing for Baroque violin with Claire Duff as part of their Strung series of violin music

  • 11 Dec, 8pm, Irish Georgian Society, Sth William St., Dublin
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Crash Ensemble perform a concert of music by Bryce Dessner as part of Brasslands@NCH

  • 13 Dec, 3pm, Engineering Library, National Concert Hall
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News

The CMC has joined up with the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris to offer a month-long composition residency there

Listen

Christmas music from Garrett Sholdice from 2013, just uploaded to the composers' Soundcloud

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