Caimin Gilmore to release four live videos and EP of new work for double bass by composers:

Video 1: Sam Perkin - <3

Premiere at 20:30, 4th June 2020

With composer interviews from Billy (age 5), Ben (age 12)

and Kate Ellis (Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble)

As part of The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Covid 19 Crisis Response Award

In 2018, Double Bassist Caimin Gilmore, commissioned Linda Buckley, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Sam Perkin and Nick Roth - four of Ireland’s most distinctive and vital young composers – to write four new Double Bass works using funds from the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council Arts Office, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The pieces were first performed live at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, as part of Quiet Lights Festival, on November 23rd 2019.

In an attempt to honour cancelled performances to audiences and festivals throughout the country in 2020, Gilmore is releasing four pre-recorded live video performances of each work, preceded by interviews with each composer by Kate Ellis (Artistic Director Crash Ensemble), Billy (age 5), and his pal Ben (age 12).

The four video’s will culminate in the release of a live EP, ‘String Ogham’, on June 25th, as part of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Covid 19 Crisis Response Award to provide access for the public to new and original art during the period of COVID-19 isolation.

About the Interviews:

Billy (age 5) plays trumpet. Ben (age 12) is Billy’s pal. He also plays trumpet and has a flare for philosophy. They both like engines and lamps. The two boys conducted four interviews via online video conferencing as part of the project, to have a bit of fun with the composers, ask them about their pieces, play them some trumpet, and various other ramblings. The interviews were carried out with help from Kate Ellis, Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s Foremost Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Watch Double Bassist Caimin Gilmore, perform four new Double Bass works, with composer interviews from Billy (age 5), his pal Ben (age 12) and Kate Ellis (Crash Ensemble Artistic Director), as part of The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon Covid 19 Crisis Response Award, every Thursday at 20:30 from June 4th (Sam Perkin), June 11th (Linda Buckley), June 18th (Benedict Schlepper-Connolly) and June 25th (Nick Roth).

TRAILER HERE

https://youtu.be/GntBCbm65YY

Set reminders for each video premiere here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLu7EfNZBv3bmcIlx1-evQ

Caimin Gilmore Bio

Caimin has extensively toured the U.S.A, Europe, Australia, Asia, U.K and Ireland as a Double Bassist. He worked as bassist and vocalist with Lisa Hannigan for her At Swim album tour throughout the world and plays regularly with Crash Ensemble, Stargaze, the RTE Concert and Symphony Orchestra’s and Ulster Orchestra. Before Covid 19, he was scheduled to tour a new project with Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) in May/June throughout Europe and a new song cycle by Daníel Bjarnason with Crash Ensemble in April.

He has played with Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), Zach Condon (Beirut), Squarepusher, The Staves, Justin Vernon (Bon Ivor), Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Dionne Warwick and recorded with Stargaze and Adam Cohen on Leonard Cohen’s posthumous album at the P-E-O-P-L-E festival in the Funkhaus Berlin 2018. He has played with Irish acts David Kitt, Valerie Francis, Inni-K and recorded for Saint Sister and David Keenan. Broadcast highlights include Other Voices on RTE, The Late Late Show with James Cordon CBS, Glastonbury Festival on BBC and NPR Music New York.

As an arranger, he has arranged for the RTE Concert Orchestra and Crash Ensemble (with Lisa Hannigan/ MangoXMathman). As a composer, he is the songwriter of chamber folk group Sun Collective.