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Revealing the Thinking Behind the Music: Seán Clancy's 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided'
James Camien McGuiggan
Composer Seán Clancy has just released a recording of 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' on the Birmingham Record Company label. James Camien McGuiggan reviews...
Singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin to Launch Campaign for Election to Dublin City Council
The Journal Of Music
Campaign launch and concert takes place on Thursday 18 April at the Grand Social and features Eva Carroll, Méabh Mulligan, Saltaire, Varo, Ispíní na hÉireann and more.
Galway Folk Festival Announces 2024 Programme
The Journal Of Music
Beth Orton, Declan O'Rourke, Cillian Vallely and David Doocey, Talisk, Seán Keane, and Tara Breen, Pádraig Rynne and Jim Murray on the line-up. ...

Latest Listings

We are Music Generation 2024
Concert
1 May Various venues, nationwide
Added by Journal of Music
Two Time Polka
Concert
18 May The Cherrytree
Added by Musiclee
Buddy Mondlock & Mike Lindauer in concert.
Concert
8 May Little Whelan's
Added by Musiclee
Niall Mccabe @ Cleere's, Kilkenny  (Rescheduled)
Concert
25 May Cleere's Bar & Theatre, KIlkenny
Added by niallmccabe
Niall Mccabe @ The Sugar Club (Rescheduled)
Concert
6 May The Sugar Club Dublin
Added by niallmccabe

News

NCH Bursaries for Emerging Composers and Classical Singers Now Open for Applications
The deadline for the Jerome Hynes Young Composers Competition and the Bernadette Greevy Bursary is 21 June 2024.
University of Limerick Opens New Electronic Music Studio
The new facilities were launched this month by composer Roger Doyle; composer-in-residence programme to start in 2025.
Programme Announced for Joe Heaney Festival of Traditional Singing 2024
Festival to mark 40 years since the singer's death with concerts, talks, sessions and launches.

Reviews

The Coloniser’s View: Stanford's 'Shamus O'Brien'
Retrospect Opera has recently released a recording of Charles Villers Stanford's 1896 opera 'Shamus O’Brien', telling the story of an Irish rebel. Brendan Finan reviews.
Revealing the Thinking Behind the Music: Seán Clancy's 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided'
Composer Seán Clancy has just released a recording of 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' on the Birmingham Record Company label. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.
The Importance of Ensembles to the New Music Scene
The Music Current contemporary festival was held at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin last week from 2 to 6 April and featured TAK Ensemble, Dublin Sound Lab, Black Page Orchestra, Nadar Ensemble and lovemusic collective. Adrian Smith reviews.

Articles

A Life of Searching
Anna Murray
The Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has recently published 'Becoming a Composer', a book of memories and reflections. Anna Murray reviews.
SXSW Protest is About More than Palestine
The protest by ten Irish bands at SXSW in Austin, Texas, was about the crisis in Palestine, but it is also about more than that, writes Toner Quinn.
Catherine Martin's Prime Opportunity to Protect Irish Music
Appointing a board member to RTÉ who has musical expertise is crucial to try and safeguard the Irish music scene, writes Toner Quinn.
The Forgotten Influences on Pianists and Composers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
A new book by Gabriela Mayer, 'The Art of the Unspoken', explores how rhetoric, linguistic parallels and the singing voice were understood by pianists and composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how performers can interpret these aspects today. James Camien McGuiggan...

From the Archive

Informal Art
Adrian Smith
Gábor Tákacs-Nagy's rapport with orchestra and audience is refreshing, writes Adrian Smith, in a review of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (27 September) performing Elgar, Brahms...
Oct 5, 2017
A New Irish Musical Language is Developing
Toner Quinn
We have entered a new era in Irish music, writes Toner Quinn, in which a language based on traditional music and song is producing extraordinary work across genres, but is it...
Oct 10, 2019
Lau
Lau
Toner Quinn
Arc Light (Navigator 20)
Dec 1, 2009

Latest Events

We are Music Generation 2024
Concert
1 May Various venues, nationwide
Added by Journal of Music
Two Time Polka
Concert
18 May The Cherrytree
Added by Musiclee
Buddy Mondlock & Mike Lindauer in concert.
Concert
8 May Little Whelan's
Added by Musiclee
Niall Mccabe @ Cleere's, Kilkenny  (Rescheduled)
Concert
25 May Cleere's Bar & Theatre, KIlkenny
Added by niallmccabe
Niall Mccabe @ The Sugar Club (Rescheduled)
Concert
6 May The Sugar Club Dublin
Added by niallmccabe

Latest Jobs and Opportunities

Regional Coordinators for Creative Schools Initiative
Funding
23 May The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Added by Journal of Music
Bernadette Greevy Bursary For Singers 2024
Competition
21 June Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
Added by Ciara Cuffe
Creative Music Making for Primary School Teachers
Course
8 July Room 103, National Concert Hall
Added by Ciara Cuffe
Musical Play: Teacher Training for Early Years Music
Course
8 July Room 103, National Concert Hall
Added by Ciara Cuffe
Jerome Hynes Young Composers’ Award 2024
Competition
21 June Foyer, National Concert Hall
Added by Ciara Cuffe

Upcoming Events

“The orchestral pipe-organ”
Concert
27 April Christ Church Cathedral Waterford
Gemma Hayes
Concert
27 April Róisín Dubh, Galway
Emma Doran: Dilemma
Comedy
27 April The Everyman, Cork
Added by The Everyman
Dave Matthews Band
Concert
27 April 3Arena, Dublin
Added by Journal of Music
Irish National Opera presents: Vivaldi's L’Olimpiade
Opera
27 April Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick
Added by Journal of Music

Upcoming Deadlines

Newpark Academy of Music Big Band Auditions 2024
Audition
27 April Newpark Academy of Music
Added by Kevin Brady
Emerging Talent Call Out
Call for Submissions
28 April Edinburgh International Festival
Programming Administrator
Job
29 April Royal Northern College of Music
Internships
Job
29 April Penguin Books
Development Director
Job
29 April Chineke! Foundation
Community Connector
Job
29 April Southbank Centre
 Elevate Your Choral Conducting Skills at the 2024 Cork International Choral Festival Conducting Course
Competition
30 April Cork Choral International Festival
Added by Roisin Kivlehan
Assistant Learning Technologist
Job
30 April Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Manager – Communications, Marketing & Digital Engagement
Job
30 April National Gallery of Ireland
EDI Artists Bursary
Call for Submissions
30 April Kilkenny County Council Arts Office

Funding

Business to Arts Awards 2024 30 April Business to Arts
Creative Schools Initiative 2 May The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Heart of the Community Fund 2024 3 May The Ireland Funds
National Lottery Project Funding 2024–2025 7 May Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Arts and Disability Connect 7 May The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon