Music Network Recording Scheme Results

Music Network Recording Scheme Results

The Music Recording Scheme was set up to provide support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through awarding funding for music recording. The scheme was open to composers and performers working in any genre of music wishing to make a recording that would be unlikely to be commercially viable without grant aid.

Music Network has announced the results of the Arts Council Music Recording Scheme 2011, a fund managed by Music Network.

A total of €71,500 was available in 2011. Sixty-seven applications were received, broadly defined as: twenty-eight classical/contemporary classical; fourteen rock/pop; eleven traditional/folk; ten jazz/world; four cross-over/other.

  • Dublin Guitar Quartet awarded €4,150 towards the recording of their arrangements of Philip Glass’ String Quartets for release on Glass’ own label, Orange Mountain Music.
  • Eamonn Quinn awarded €10,000 towards Louth Contemporary Music Society’s fourth CD, Polyhymnia which explores folk forms in contemporary music, featuring works by Irish, Turkish, Greek and Italian composers.
  • Benedict Schlepper-Connolly awarded €9,995 to record Ergodos Musicians’ All the Ends of the Earth project, a meditation on the works of twelfth-century French composer Léonin by three contemporary Irish composers (Linda Buckley, Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly).
  • Laoise O’Brien (pictured) awarded €9,100 to record an eclectic mix of early art and folk music aimed at children and families, as part of an ongoing collaboration with visual artist Lorna Donlon, drawing inspiration from children’s stories and folklore.
  • Christopher Marwood of the Vanbrugh Quartet awarded €9,440 to record a body of work by Irish composer Deirdre Gribben.
  • John Godfrey awarded €7,779 to record the Quiet Music Ensemble performing works specially commissioned from Alvin Lucier, David Toop, and John Godfrey, in addition to works by John Cage and George Brecht.
  • Peter Whelan awarded €7,360 to record The Proud Bassoon, an album of virtuoso music for solo bassoon and continuo from the baroque era.
  • Shane Latimer awarded €5,220 to produce a recording of his own compositions, influenced by free jazz, ambient, hip hop and funk, with the group OKO.
  • David Redmond awarded €8,456 to record a body of his own jazz compositions with the Kevin Brady Trio.
  • The Music Recording Scheme was set up to provide support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through awarding funding for music recording. The scheme was open to composers and performers working in any genre of music wishing to make a recording that would be unlikely to be commercially viable without grant aid.

    The deadlines for applications for the Music Recording Scheme in 2012 will be announced in the New Year along with details on how to apply.

    www.musicnetwork.ie/musicians/funding/

    Published on 28 October 2011

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