Latest

TG4 and Black Gate Announce Second Season of Cumasc Music Series
The Journal Of Music
The new lineup features Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, John Francis Flynn, Niamh Regan, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Zoë Conway, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Ríoghnach Connolly, Shunya, Jack Talty and more.
University of Limerick Opens New Electronic Music Studio
The Journal Of Music
The new facilities were launched this month by composer Roger Doyle; composer-in-residence programme to start in 2025. ...
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

Poor Creature (feat. members of Landless/Lankum/The Jimmy Cake)
Concert
17 August The Workman's Cellar, Dublin
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Play
2 July Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Play
29 June Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Concert
26 June Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Yulianna Avdeeva
Concert
16 June Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Added by RWCMDmarketing

News

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.
Concerts, Festivals & Upcoming Deadlines (22–28 April 2024)
This week's concerts, festivals and job and funding deadlines from Monday to Sunday.

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.
The Return of the Bothy Band
TG4 has broadcast a new documentary film on the reformed 1970s group The Bothy Band including interviews and a performance in Dublin. Adrian Scahill reviews.
Bringing to Light a Forgotten Anglo-Irish Composer
Harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham has just released an album of work by the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish composer Thomas Roseingrave. James Camien McGuiggan 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

Irish Composers in Paris
Raymond Deane
Raymond Deane recounts a weekend on which music from Ireland flooded the French capital at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
Nov 9, 2012
Northern Perspective on New Music
Mark Fitzgerald
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble from Northern Ireland have recently released their debut album, 'A Terrible Beauty' – a double-CD of 12 compositions. Mark Fitzgerald reviews.
Nov 11, 2021
Carrying So Much: Liam O'Flynn and the Tradition
Toner Quinn
A new feature-length documentary on the great piper Liam O'Flynn was broadcast on TG4 at the weekend. Toner Quinn reviews.
Apr 16, 2020

Latest Events

Poor Creature (feat. members of Landless/Lankum/The Jimmy Cake)
Concert
17 August The Workman's Cellar, Dublin
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Play
2 July Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Play
29 June Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Concert
26 June Sherman Theatre
Added by RWCMDmarketing
Yulianna Avdeeva
Concert
16 June Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Added by RWCMDmarketing

Latest Jobs and Opportunities

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
Emerging Talent Call Out
Call for Submissions
28 April Edinburgh International Festival

Upcoming Events

UCD Gamelan Orchestra Performance Showcase
Concert
26 April St. Mary's Church Haddington Rd.
Added by Peter Moran
Leonard Barry
Concert
26 April Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo
Added by Hawkswell
Morgana
Concert
26 April Dolan's, Limerick

Upcoming Deadlines

Associate Pianist, The Royal Ballet
Job
26 April Royal Opera House
Music Development Officer with Music Generation Galway City
Job
26 April Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board
Added by Journal of Music
Administrator
Job
26 April Fighting Words NI
General Director & CEO
Job
26 April Welsh National Opera
Ticketing & Sales Manager
Job
26 April Serious
Marketing Coordination Services
Job
26 April Cork County Council
Theatre Attendant Culturlann Sweeney – Kilkee
Job
26 April Clare County Council
Public Engagement Manager
Job
26 April Dublin
Added by Moyra D'Arcy
Senior Relationship Manager, London
Job
26 April Arts Council England

Funding

PhD Scholarships in Music 26 April Dublin City University
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