The Arts Council has offered €324,988 to music, opera and traditional arts projects in its latest round of Project Funding, the results of which were posted online this week.

A total of €1,263,174 was offered across five art forms. Ten music projects received €161,013, three opera projects received €104,500 and one traditional arts project received €59,475.

€599,086 was awarded to theatre projects and €339,100 to visual arts.

Among the awards were €29,677 for Concorde contemporary music group for a series of concerts to celebrate its 40th anniversary; €69,000 for a new opera by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff in association with the Solstice Arts Centre; and €59,475 for Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin to organise three concerts and create a website based on the music in her book, A Hidden Ulster: people, songs & traditions of Oriel.

For full details of the music, opera and traditional awards, see below, or visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/funding-decisions 

MUSIC
Concorde
€29,677
A series of public performances celebrating Concorde’s 40th anniversary; create new work in collaboration with composers Dave Fennessy, Garth Knox and Jane O’Leary; a revival of commissions and significant repertoire for chamber ensemble from the past 40 years, both Irish and international. 

Dylan Tighe
€27,352
To present the world premiere of a new song-cycle, performed as an audio-visual experience in the Lighthouse Cinema and a live concert in Dún Laoghaire public library. 

Béal
€26,695
To present eleven pieces over two days of varying types of unaccompanied vocal-ensemble music by Jennifer Walshe. Two concerts of pieces for 3–6 voices within public areas of the Project Arts Centre and two concerts for 5–16 voices in the Space Upstairs. Performed by EnsembÉal, led by Elizabeth Hilliard.

Dublin Sound Lab
€19,315
To present a three-day festival of electronic music in collaboration with Contemporary Music Centre; provide professional and performance opportunities for Irish composers through master classes, workshops and concerts; showcase new Irish works and important repertoire, rarely performed for Irish audiences.

Robert Blake
€13,491
To develop and co-create a new interdisciplinary work of music theatre exploring themes of urban regeneration in Dublin Docklands; to collaboratively produce a work with exceptional Irish artists through structured devising; to present new work publicly to Dublin audiences.

Association of Irish Composers
€11,800
To hold three concerts by Irish composers performing their own and seldom heard works for their instrument; establish a new free regular contemporary music talks event at a central Dublin café; publish articles and video interviews by and about Irish composers on the Association of Irish Composers Journal website.

Jazz on the Terrace
€9,500
To present a concert by the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra celebrating big band music at the Limerick Jazz Festival featuring music by Stan Kenton and Gerry Mulligan.

Irish Composers’ Collective
€9,498
InSight is an inter-disciplinary four concert series in Smock Alley Theatre co-produced with Tonnta. It involves twenty new works by Irish composers in four diverse concerts exploring a marriage between music and a unique visual interpretation, achieved through a collaborative process with organised workshops.

Kirkos
€7,645
Fluxfest examines Fluxus and its legacy, including new works. It is made up of multiple small events (e.g. street performances) aimed at wider public, followed by a Happening in a loft-style Dublin venue.

Alex Petcu-Colan
€6,040
A collaboration between composer Tom Lane and percussionist Alex Petcu; to engage new audiences through a series of free, site-specific, outdoor percussion pieces as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2016; to explore acoustic properties of three unique spaces in Cork City through newly composed music

OPERA
Dumbworld Ltd
€69,000
To present Conversations Across Time, a new opera by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff produced by Dumbworld in association with the Solstice Arts Centre, that will bring together the different perspectives of children and older people to explore ideas of a life lived and to be lived.

Siobhán Cleary
€20,000
To develop a new opera in collaboration with RIAM/The Lir Opera Brief for performance in 2017; organise a series of workshops along side director Tom Creed hosted by RIAM in 2016; produce a new libretto based on Angela Carter’s Vampirella and The Company of Wolves with Katy Hayes. 

Kevin O’Connell
€15,500
To compose a chamber opera, evening length, in collaboration with Lily Akerman; to have this work performed in the 2018–19 season in collaboration with the RIAM opera school or other chamber opera group. 

TRADITIONAL ARTS
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
€59,475
To take the wealth of archival song and music collections off the pages of A Hidden Ulster and assimilate it into the repertoire of Oriel musicians; to perform live performances in new contexts on a new online site of Oriel music and song, and at three concerts in Louth and Dublin.