New Music Digest: 2 – 8 November
Events This Week:
The Moving on Music Tempered Festival takes place this weekend, showcasing the best in 'homegrown contemporary talent' including Crash Ensemble, Ed Bennett's Decibel ensemble, and more.
- 5 – 8 Nov, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
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The annual student composer showcase, CMC New Music Marathon, takes place in Dundalk IT this week
- 5 Nov, 11am, Dundalk IT, Co. Louth
Flautist Carin Levine will give a concert of Irish works in Belfast, including Karen Power's relocating elk...by train
- 5 Nov, 1pm, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
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A new work by Seán Clancy will be performed in London at a Soundings concert, preceded by a pre-concert talk with the performers in the programme
- 5 Nov, 7.30pm, Royal College of Music, London
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A new opera by Ian Wilson with The Quiet Club and Lauren Kinsella (voice), called The Last Siren, will be premiered in Cork, before also featuring as part of the Tempered festival in Belfast and the Sound festival in Scotland
- 5 Nov, 8pm, The Guesthouse, Shandon, Cork
- 6 Nov, 8.30pm, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- 7 Nov, 8pm, The Lemon, Aberdeen, Scotland
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Cristy Doran's ensemble NEW BAG will perform a concert of his music at a jazz festival in Germany
- 6 Nov, 8pm, Göttingen Jazzfestival, Göttingen
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air india [redacted], a new multimedia work by Jürgen Simpson, with projections by John Galvin and directed by Tom Creed, will be premiered in Canada
- 6 Nov, 8.30pm, Simon Fraser University Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, Canada
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Cork Film Festival will feature a new experimental film collaboration between composer Karen Power and director Maximilian LeCain
- 7 Nov, 12pm, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
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Wind quintet Cassiopeia Winds begin their Irish tour, with a programme that includes a new work by John Buckley
- 7 Nov, 8pm, Birr Theatre and Arts Centre, Birr, Co. Offaly
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Kaleidoscope Night present two concerts this week, in Dublin and Dundalk, with the latter featuring a performance of Golijov's Tenebrae
- 4 Nov, 9pm, The Bello Bar, Portobello, Dublin
- 5 Nov, 9pm, The Spirit Store, Dundalk
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Watch:
Rehearsal footage of Cassiopeia Winds rehearsing John Buckley's new Wind Quintet.