Dave Flynn has been invited to the Secret Music Festival in Sweden.

Composer Dave Flynn has been invited to the Secret Music Festival on the island of Öland in Sweden at the end of June.

He will spend a week collaborating and performing with musicians from Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Australia and Estonia. They will spend the first three days working together on a new collaborative composition which they will then perform in four concerts throughout the Island of Öland.

The musicians joining him will be Vyvienne Long and John Leo Carter from Ireland, Maria Rylander and Klas Ehnemark from Sweden, Nasrine Rahmani from Spain/Australia, Diego Guerrero from Spain and Juhan and Janne Suits from Estonia.

Flynn has also been awarded a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland to concentrate on composition for the rest of 2010, including  new music for Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill to perform with orchestra.