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The deadline for the Jerome Hynes Young Composers Competition and the Bernadette Greevy Bursary is 21 June 2024.
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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...
Festival to mark 40 years since the singer's death with concerts, talks, sessions and launches...
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The deadline for the Jerome Hynes Young Composers Competition and the Bernadette Greevy Bursary is 21 June 2024.
The new facilities were launched this month by composer Roger Doyle; composer-in-residence programme to start in 2025.
Festival to mark 40 years since the singer's death with concerts, talks, sessions and launches.
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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.
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 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.
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The Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has recently published 'Becoming a Composer', a book of memories and reflections. Anna Murray reviews.
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.
Appointing a board member to RTÉ who has musical expertise is crucial to try and safeguard the Irish music scene, writes Toner Quinn.
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...
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Patrick Byrne or Pádraig Ó Beirn (c. 1794–1863), Irish harper and singer, the first Irish traditional musician to have been photographed: one of several calotypes of Byrne taken...
Feb 1, 2010
Galway 2020's music programme is under way, with 'Imagining Ireland', a concert of female artists including Lisa O'Neill, Radie Peat and Sorcha Richardson, at...
Feb 13, 2020
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