New Music Digest: 31 March - 6 April

Mon 31 Mar 2014

New Dublin Voices

Events This Week

ConTempo Quartet perform Kevin O'Connell's Where should this music be? as part of their series exploring Haydn and his string quartet legacy

  • 1 April, 1.15pm, Galway City Library, Galway
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The April Kaleidoscope Night includes a performance of Ian Wilson's heaven lay close by the Chatham Saxophone Quartet

  • 2 April, 9pm, 13 Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin
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The Joinery Off-Site present a concert of experimental improvised music at the National Concert Hall

  • 4 April, 8pm, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall
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ConTempo Quartet team up with the Crash Ensemble to perform a concert as part of the New Music: New Audiences initiative

  • 4 April, 8pm, The Courthouse, Galway
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ConTempo are finishing up the week with a concert at the Hugh Lane Gallery with Dermot Dunne, performing Jane O'Leary's ConTempo ConVersations

  • 6 April, 12pm, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
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Violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan will perform as part of Moving On Music and Belfast Music Society's Night Music series, with music by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Garrett Sholdice, Simon O'Connor and Andrew Hamilton, around Bach's Partita No.2

  • 2 April, 8.15pm, The MAC, Belfast
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NUI Maynooth's new contemporary music ensemble fuaim will play a lunchtime concert, with music by Martin O'Leary, Ben McHugh and Ian Wilson.

  • 3 April, 1.10pm, Riverstown Hall, NUI Maynooth
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Irish composers Ed Bennett, Seán Clancy, Andrew Hamilton, Damien Harron feature in the Frontiers Festival at Birmingham Conservatoire

  • 4 April, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK
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Edit-Point ensemble perform a concert of electroacoustic works by member composers, including Matthew Whiteside's Elements

  • 4 April, 7pm, Recital Rooms, Glasgow City Halls
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Grainne Mulvey's new CD on the Navonas label, Akanos, will be launched with an event at the CMC, with performances from Elizabeth Hilliard and Joe O'Farrell

  • 4 April, 6.30pm, Contemporary Music Centre, Fishamble Street, Dublin
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Ensemble Nickel will premiere a new work by Ann Cleare called the square of light that is your window in the USA

  • 5 April, 8pm, Paine Hall, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Irish Composers' Collective present Conversations I, the first concert in their collaboration with New Dublin Voices

  • 5 April, 8.30pm, University Church, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin
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Listen

An interview with Grainne Mulvey, featuring extracts from her recently released Akanos CD, which will be launched in CMC on Friday

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