The Irish Composers’ Collective kick off the new year with a high-energy concert of new music featuring the acclaimed Chatham Saxophone Quartet and guest artist, dutch ‘avant pop’ composer Jacob TV. Chatham Saxophone Quartet will perform six new works written by members of the Irish Composers’ Collective, as well as Jacob TV’s Grab It! and Jesus is Coming followed by a Q&A with the composer.

Over the past eight months, members of the Irish Composers’ Collective have been writing new works for saxophone quartet under the mentorship of Jacob TV, and through collaborative workshops throughout 2019 with Chatham Saxophone Quartet. The result is an eclectic programme of new music featuring 8-bit game music, Japanese TV Adverts, political doublespeak, an angry street evangelist, sound bytes from the streets of New York and of course four saxophones: soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.

Described as the ‘Andy Warhol of new music’ JacobTV’s so called ‘boombox’ repertoire, works for live instruments with a grooving sound track based on speech melody, has found audiences all over the world. In 2007 a three-day JacobTV festival took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. His largest work, a never-ending reality opera THE NEWS is ongoing and constantly being updated. Various editions have been performed in Chicago, Rome, Amsterdam, Hamburg, New York. According to the Wall Street Journal his work ‘makes many a hip-hop artist look sedate’.

Runaway winners of Music Network’s Young Musicwide Award in 2012, the superlative Chatham Saxophone Quartet (CSQ) has repeatedly won plaudits for its bravura performances and versatility.With an eclectic repertoire spanning contemporary, classical and jazz genres, this unique ensemble pushes the boundaries of what we know the saxophone quartet to be.

Since its foundation in 2008, the Chatham Saxophone Quartet (named after the street where the ensemble first formed) has appeared at the Boyle Arts Festival, Ten Days in Dublin festival, Galway Music Residency, the National Concert Hall, and additionally regularly feature in Dublin’s monthly Kaleidoscope Night. In 2012 the quartet performed throughout Ireland as part of their national tour.More recently the CSQ collaborated with the Irish Chamber Choir, playing a programme of spiritual music featuring repertoire by Arvo Pärt, Gesualdo and Kancheli.

The quartet’s members all actively compose and arrange new works for the group. In addition to performing contemporary pieces for saxophones and electronics, the CSQ have also worked closely with both the Vanbrugh Quartet and ConTempo String Quartet in transcribing string repertoire for wind instruments. In 2015, the CSQ launched their debut album “New Irish Music” (under Lyric FM label), featuring new works by Brian Byrne, Ian Wilson, Brian Irvine, Jonathan Nangle and Ken Edge.

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

Funded by the Arts Council.

The Fidelio Trio will perform Arturo Fuentes’ Mimik (commissioned 2014) and 6 new works for piano trio by ICC composers: Seán O’Dalaigh, Martin Devek, Hugh Martin Boyle, Martin Keary, Santiago Kodela, and Paul Scully on Saturday 20 July 2019 as part of the Irish Composers Collectives’ 2019 series. The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

The ‘virtuosic Fidelio Trio’ (Sunday Times) were shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards and are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing a wide range of repertoire on concert stages across the world. They are broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR; have featured on Sky Arts documentaries; and have an impressive list of commissions and first performances from leading composers and a large discography of acclaimed recordings.

Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, they have appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals from Brighton and Cheltenham to St. Magnus, and from Gregynog to Huddersfield. They regularly perform in Ireland at the National Concert Hall, Kilkenny Festival and the Belfast Festival at Queens as well as overseas in Shanghai, Porto, Paris, Venice, Florence, Johannesburg, New York, Princeton, San Francisco and Boston. Their extensive discography includes Ravel and Saint-Saëns for Resonus Classics; Philip Glass Head On; Korngold and Schoenberg for Naxos; multiple releases on NMC, Delphian Records including portrait CDs for composers Luke Bedford and Michael Zev Gordon. Their recent release of French Piano Trios for Resonus was a Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice.

Keen to ensure the future development of the piano trio, they work closely with composition and performance students at institutions across the UK and all over the world including the Peabody Conservatory, Curtis Institute, NYU, NAFA Singapore, and Stellenbosch Conservatorium South Africa. They have been artists-in-residence at St. Patrick’s College Dublin City University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and the State University of New York. They are constantly commissioning new works, giving first performances, and importantly, further performances to introduce them into the repertory. They are Artistic Directors of their annual Winter Chamber Music Festival at Belvedere House, Dublin City University and have worked closely with composers Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud, Michael Nyman, Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Joe Cutler, Evan Ziporyn, Simon Bainbridge, Judith Weir… to name but a few.

2017/18 saw tours of USA, Africa, Asia, and many festival appearances including Kilkenny Arts Festival; new commissions from Kevin Volans and Alexander Goehr and a world premiere recording of two works by Philip Glass. They continued their residency at the National Concert Hall; recorded Gerald Barry’s Chamber Music for Mode Records and a second set of French Piano Trios for Resonus Classics. 2018/19 season sees multiple performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto including with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, a further USA tour, a BBC broadcast recital and multiple CD releases. 

The Fidelio Trio are joined by cellist Deirdre Cooper for this performance.

The Irish Composers' Collective present an evening of new music for Horn and electronics in Bewley's Café Theatre, Grafton Street on Monday 20 May with Cormac O'hAodáin. Cormac will perform five new works written by ICC composers Sebastian Adams, Aran O'Grady, Lindsey Vincent, Kevin Free, and Michael Riordan.

Born in Dublin in 1971, Cormac O’hAodáin studied horn with Victor Malirsh at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He continued his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Between 1993 and 1996 Cormac represented Ireland in the European Union Youth Orchestra, working with such eminent maestros as Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Sanderling, Georges Prêtre, Bernard Haitink, Mstislav Rostropovich and Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 1997 he joined the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniele Gatti, also working with Yuri Temirkanov, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Berglund, Sir Yehudi Menuhin and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies amongst others. In 1999 Cormac moved to the Philharmonia Orchestra, performing with many of the world’s leading conductors, such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Evgeny Svetlanov, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christian Thielemann, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and Lorin Maazel. With these orchestras Cormac has toured extensively throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, North and South America, the Near and Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Since 2009 Cormac has been a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. In 2010 he performed Aloys Fleischmann’s Cornucopia for Solo Horn and Orchestra with the RTÉ CO as part of the Fleischmann Centenary year celebrations and in 2012 performed Richard Strauss’s 1st Horn Concerto with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Cormac has considerable chamber music experience and is a founding member of Cassiopeia Winds Wind Quintet, Vox Merus Brass Quintet and Musici Ireland Chamber Ensemble.

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

The concert is funded by the Arts Council.

Doors 7.15pm
Music 7.45pm
*Limited tickets available so make sure you book in advance!*
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The Irish Composers' Collective present an evening of new music for Double Bass and electronics in Studio 10, Wicklow Street on Thursday 18 April with Malachy Robinson. Malachy will perform five new works written by ICC composers Sebastian Adams, Daniel Reid, Richard Hughes, Kevin Free, and Paul Scully, as well as a Judith Ring's Fusion for Double Bass and electronics.

Malachy Robinson is a dedicated chamber musician, as passionate about Early Music as he is about New Music. He is a founder of the Gregory Walkers, a group performing “Early Music from Ireland and beyond” in which he plays the viola da gamba, and is director of the Robinson Panoramic Quartet, a revelatory alternative to the standard string quartet. Principal double-bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 1995, he is also a founder member of the cutting-edge Crash Ensemble as well as appearing with period-instrument orchestras such as The Sixteen, the English Concert, the OAE and the Academy of Ancient Music. He was a founder member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and of the quintet Lunfardia led by Argentinean guitarist Ariel Hernandez. He has performed with the Vanbrugh, Navarra, Callino, Parisii, T’ang, Con Tempo and Vogler String Quartets, the Phoenix Piano Trio, Daghda Dance Company, the Brian Byrne Big Band, and theatrical diva Camille O’Sullivan.

Solo double-bass performances have included many Irish premieres, including Serbian composer Zoran Eric’s concerto “Off” which he performed eight times on tour with the ICO. He has worked closely with many Irish composers including Kevin O’Connell, Donnacha Dennehy, Ian Wilson and Raymond Deane. His double-bass playing has been described by the Irish Times as “rich in rhetoric” with “rhythmic life” and “unassuming virtuosity” and by the Irish Examiner as “remarkable virtuosity” employing a “variety of timbres”. The Classical Review magazine (reviewing a recording by the EQ Ensemble) praised his “adroitly lowering, often exquisitely bathetic double bass”!

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

Funded by the Arts Council and supported by IMRO.

Doors 7.30pm
Music 7.45pm

Tickets €10/7
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The Irish Composers' Collective present an evening of new music for Flute, Viola, and Harp in the Luther House, St Finian's Church. Ficino Ensemble will performs Kaija Saariaho's 'New Gates' for flute, viola, harp along with six new works written by ICC composers Johanne Heraty, Anselm McDonnell, Elizabeth O'Brien, Rachel Nic Thomás, Robert Connell, and Stephen Kavanagh.

Ficino Ensemble was formed by Artistic Director Nathan Sherman in 2012 as a flexible chamber music group that performs all the great music for small ensembles, ranging from string trios to works written for larger ensembles.

Ficino Ensemble's aim is to perform works that appeal to a discerning audience whilst championing lesser known works that deserve to be appreciated. To date, they been invited to play for President Michael D. Higgins, Howth Chamber Music Series, Music in Kilkenny Series, Hugh Lane Sundays@Noon Series, Cork Orchestral Society and the Irish Georgian Society. They performed a highly successful chamber music series at the National Concert Hall in August 2016.

​Their concerts have been described as exciting and intimate with a high calibre of ensemble playing. The members of the group are recognized in Ireland and abroad as soloists and chamber musicians.

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.15pm

Tickets €5
*Limited tickets available so make sure you book in advance!*
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The Irish Composers' Collective present an evening of new electronic and electroacoustic music in the Irish Georgian Society's newly refurbished City Assembly House. Join us for an evening of music in which the old and the new collide: six premieres of new music in the historical setting of this georgian building on South William Street.

In our first concert of 2019, composers Éna Brennan, Robbie Blake, Anselm McDonnell, Richard Hughes, and Matthew Geoghegan present new electronic works which have been written while under the mentorship of composer Jonathan Nangle. 

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members.

Flautists Lina Andonovska and Meadhbh O’Rourke will perform six new works on 7 December 2018 at St Finian’s Church. New works for solo flute, flute duo, flute and electronics, and flute and kick drum have been written by ICC composers ​Kevin Free​, Daniel McDermott, Elaine Nolan, Ben Mchugh, Bill McGrath, and Alan O’Raghallaigh. 

Lina Andonovska (flute) leads a diverse career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, collaborator and educator. Quickly gaining recognition internationally as a fearless and versatile artist, she has collaborated and performed with Crash Ensemble (Ireland), Deutsches Kammerorchester (Germany), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), s t a r g a z e, Southern Cross Soloists (Aus), Ulysses Ensemble (EU) and eighth blackbird (USA). She is critically acclaimed for her interpretation of new music, having worked with Louis Andriessen, Brett Dean, Ann Cleare, Donnacha Dennehy, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Bryce Dessner, Thomas Ades, Anthony Pateras and Nick Roth. Rolling Stone Magazine hailed her performance of Bun-Ching Lam’s piccolo concertino at the Bang On A Can Summer Festival as “superbly played, (ranging) from sustained ‘somebody-please-get-that-tea-kettle’ squeaks to the flit and flutter of its beautifully lilting trills...” 

In 2015/2016 she completed a two-month Asialink Residency bringing contemporary classical repertoire to audiences in Timor-Leste as well as collaborating with local musicians. Prior to this she was musician in residence with Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s foremost contemporary music ensemble. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Freedman Fellowship and with it commissioned a new work for flute and electronics by Australian composer Anthony Pateras.She has been artist in residence on three occasions at the Banff Centre (Canada). 

As an orchestral player she has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria; Guest Principal Flute with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2012 she was co-principal flute of the Southbank Sinfonia (UK). As soloist she has performed concerti with the Southbank Sinfonia, Orchestra Victoria, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and most recently the Deutsches Kammerorchester (Berlin).

Recent performance credits include the German premiere of Dean’s flute concerto ‘Siduri Dances’ with the Deutsches Kammerorchester, recitals at the Tokyo Experimental Festival, and guest appearances with s t a r g a z e at the Edinburgh International Festival. In the 2018/2019 season, she will be joining the Southern Cross Soloists (AU), performing the latest opera by Dennehy/Walsh with Crash Ensemble at the Barbican (London) and Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), performances as Principal Piccolo with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and a solo recital as part of Berlin’s Unerhörte Musik series. In 2019, she will be giving the world premiere of a new solo work written for her by Donnacha Dennehy with the assistance of the Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award at Musica Nova, Helsinki.

The Irish Composers’ Collective is a non-profit collective of young and/or emerging Irish composers. ICC’s main aim is to further the professional development of composers by producing regular concerts of new music by its members. ICC members are given the opportunity to work closely with professional performers over a period of months in the lead up to a concert.

Meadhbh O’Rourke studied at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama with Ciarán O’Connell for two years before completing her BMus degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying with Katherine Bryan (Principal RSNO), Helen Brew (Associate Principal RSNO), Janet Richardson (Principal Piccolo, RSNO) and Ruth Morley (Red Note Ensemble). She is a winner of both the Junior and Senior Flute competitions at the ESB Feis Ceoil. In 2015 she was chosen as one of four finalists from Ireland for the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Brass and Woodwind Scholarships. In both 2017 and 2018 she won the Hope Scott Trust Award to attend Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra 2017 and Grolloo Flute Summer School 2018 (Netherlands). Meadhbh has worked with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and participated in the RTE Symphony Orchestra Mentoring Scheme in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons as well as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Side-by-Side scheme 2018. As soloist, Meadhbh has performed with the DIT Symphony Orchestra and the Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra.

New York based, Irish pianist Isabelle O’Connell will perform music by members of the Irish Composers’ Collective  on 11th October 2018 in Luther Haus, St Finian’s Church, Adelaide Rd. New works for solo piano, and piano and tape have been written by ICC composers ​Anselm McDonnell​, Niall Tormey, Paul Scully, Martin Keary, Luke Smyth, and Lindsey Vincent.

Since her Carnegie Hall debut recital in 2002, pianist Isabelle O'Connell has developed an international career as soloist and chamber musician that has taken her around the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, to venues such as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Art Institute, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the National Concert Hall, Ireland.

Isabelle is co-founder of Grand Band, a piano sextet described by the New York Times as: "six of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene”. Isabelle has performed as concerto soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. She has also performed with Crash ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Da Capo Chamber Players, the ConTempo and New Zealand String Quartets and is a member of the Friends of MATA ensemble.

Composers she has worked with include John Adams, John Luther Adams, Morton Subotnick, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Dan Trueman, Bunita Marcus, amongst many others.

Isabelle has recorded for the Diatribe, Innova and Lyric fm labels. Her debut solo album RESERVOIR released in 2010 features solo piano music by nine contemporary Irish composers and for this The New Yorker hailed her as "the young Irish piano phenom". She recorded Kevin Volans' Concerto for Piano and Winds with the RTE NSO in 2014.

A Fulbright scholar, Isabelle holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is currently on the piano faculty at Bard College, NY.

We are delighted to present the second concert of our For the Voice series with vocalists Elizabeth Hilliard and Melissa Murphy.

The concert will feature six new works for voice and electronics written by ICC composers/members Éna Brennan, Aran O’Grady, Rachael Lavelle, Darragh Kelly, Lindsey Vincent, and Paul Scully.

Elizabeth is a soprano from Dublin. She is passionate for performing music by living composers and brings her keen musical skills to a wide range of repertoire.She formed the music / text company Béal with David Bremner in 2010: In 2016 she conducted ensembÉal in a 2-day festival,Inappropriate Moments, featuring the vocal ensemble music of Jennifer Walshe. She released a critically-acclaimed CD Sea to the West in 2016, featuring works by Linda Buckley, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner and Christopher Fox. In 2018, The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon awarded her a bursary to study improvisation with Jennifer Walshe and Karen Power, and conducting with Gregory Rose.

The For the Voice series also sees ICC’s first performer mentorship scheme in which emerging performers are paired with experienced performers who mentor them on how best to approach, learn and perform new music. Each mentee has two pieces written for them, one duet and one solo, which they then perform in the concert. Elizabeth’s mentee for this concert is Dublin-based soprano Melissa Murphy.  

Melissa is a graduate of DIT and has recently performed as Galatea, Donna Anna, and Nysa. She regularly performs in the National Concert Hall with Lyric Opera and has been a prize winner in the ESB Feis Ceoil. She has also enjoyed working both in choirs and conducting them throughout her degree. She is thrilled to be working with the composers and to be performing these new works.

We are delighted to present the second concert of our For the Voice series with vocalists Michelle O'Rourke and Siobhra Quinlan and, pianist/harpsichordist David Adams.

The concert will feature six new works by ICC composers/members Sinéad Finegan, Anselm McDonnell, Alan Perrin, Rachel Thomas, Lindsey Vincent and Luke Smyth. In addition to the new works, Michelle and Siobhra will perform the duet ‘Pur ti miro, pur ti godo’ from Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. 

Michelle O’Rourke is an Irish singer currently based in Dublin. Her natural sound, unaffected expressivity and technical ability make for an interpreter of rare dynamism. Michelle combines her classical training and background in Baroque music with an adventurous eclecticism and a passion for collaboration. She has worked regularly with Ergodos, a Dublin-based music company, since its inception in 2006. She has performed for Ergodos, both as a soloist, and as part of their flexible performing group Ergodos Musicians, in Ireland, UK, USA and Germany.

David Adams is active as a harpsichordist and organist both as a teacher and a performer. A former organ scholar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity College Dublin, David Adams studied in Freiburg (with Ludwig Doerr) and Amsterdam (with Piet Kee and Ewald Kooiman), winning prizes at international competitions in Speyer, Lüneburg, Dublin and Bruges. He regularly appears with all the Irish orchestras and is much in demand as an ensemble player in the fields of early and contemporary music. He has premiered many new works including numerous compositions written specially for him.

Síobhra Quinlan is an Irish vocalist, composer and producer. Síobhra is currently based in Ireland where she has just completed an M.Phil in Music Composition at Trinity College Dublin, while also coaching with vocalist Michelle O'Rourke and harpsichordist David Adams on baroque repertoire gleaned from her research on the forgotten female singer-composers of 17C Italy. Síobhra is a current participant on the 2017/2018 Female Conductor Programme at The National Concert Hall. Siobhra is a participant in the ICC’s performer mentorship scheme.

The For the Voice series sees ICC’s first performer mentorship scheme in which emerging performers are paired with experienced performers who mentor them on the intricacies of performing new music and working with composers.

Tickets: €10/8 available here: https://michelleorourke-davidadams.eventbrite.ie/

Supported by the Arts Council Ireland.

Irish tenor Andrew Gavin will perform five new works on 14 June 2018 by ICC composers/members Elaine Nolan, Philip Parker, Kevin Free, Rachael Lavelle, Luke Smyth and Lizzy O'Brien in the opening concert of our For the Voice series.

The For the Voice series sees ICC’s first performer mentorship scheme in which emerging performers are paired with experienced performers who mentor them on the intricacies of performing new music and working with composers. Three of the works will be performed by Andrew, two works are duets written for Andrew and his mentee Sofiia Kravets, and one work is a solo for Sofiia.

Andrew Gavin is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music where he studied under Mary Brennan. His career has seen him involved in many opera and cantata performances across Ireland and the UK. 

This concert will be the first in the For the Voice Series which will also include performances from mezzo-soprano Michelle O’Rourke and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. This series will explore various modes of vocal writing including music for solo unaccompanied voice, duets, voice and electronics and, voice and instrumental accompaniment. The second concert of the series with Michelle O’Rourke will take place on 5 July and the final concert, with Elizabeth Hilliard, takes place in September.

Tickets €10/8.
Limited number of €7 early bird tickets available online only!
https://guitar-duo.eventbrite.ie/
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We are delighted to present a concert of new music for guitar duo. Taking place in the beautiful and resonant surroundings of the exhibition room in the Irish Georgian Society’s City Assembly House on South William Street, this concert will feature six new works by ICC members Chris McAteer, Sinead Finnegan, Kilian O'Kelly, Daniel Reid and Susan Geaney.

Freddy Walsh is a guitarist currently based in Dublin. He holds a Master’s degree in Performance & Musicology from NUI Maynooth, and a BA in Music from Waterford I.T. In 2014, he won first place in the senior classical guitar competition in the Feis Ceoil, becoming the first WIT student to do so. He has performed throughout Ireland in such venues as the Unitarian Church, St Anne’s Church, Castalia Hall, Garter Lane, and Crescent Arts Centre Belfast. He studied under the tuition of classical guitarist Michael O’Toole and jazz guitarist Tommy Halferty.

James McDonald is a classical guitarist who graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology with a BA in Music. Under the tutelage of Michael O’Toole he was the second Waterford I.T student to be awarded first place in the Féis Ceoil Senior Classical Guitar Competition (imitation is the highest form of flattery), and was also awarded the Bridget Doolan award, both in 2017. Solo and chamber performance venues include the National Concert Hall, St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick, and
Black Abbey Church in Kilkenny.

Freddy and James have noted a dearth of guitar duo music from Ireland, and, as well as performing works by international composers, have sought exciting new works by Irish composers for two guitars. The duo recently performed in Belfast as part of Moving on Music and Contemporary Music Centre’s “Emerging Artist Programme.” They feel that the amount of guitars onstage at the moment is adequate, but not yet ideal, and as such welcome submissions from interested composers.

Funded by the Arts Council.

Tenor Andrew Gavin presents an open workshop on writing for solo male voice.

Five new works will be workshopped by ICC members:

Elaine Nolan, 

Philip Parker

Kevin Free

Rachael Lavelle

Luke Smyth

Lizzy O'Brien

Andrew completed his Masters in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin in 2016, achieving First Class Honours under the tutelage of Mary Brennan. He is also a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he attained First Class Honours in English Literature, and he also holds an M. Phil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College Dublin. 

In October 2017 he created the roles of Alleyne, O’Halloran and Bob in  Andrew Synnott’s Dubliners at Wexford Festival Opera, and later performed the work with Opera Theatre Company in Dublin. Earlier in 2017 he sang the role of Damon in Opera Theatre Company’s national tour of Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Irish Baroque Orchestra. 

Freddy Walsh and James McDonald give a workshop in which they will be working through five new works by our composers. This event is free and open to all.

Mezzo-soprano Michelle O'Rourke presents an open workshop on writing for solo female voice and duets.

Five new works will be workshopped by ICC members:

Anselm McDonnell

Luke Smyth

Alan Barclay

Lindsey Vincent

Rachel Thomas

Sínéad Finegan

Michelle is an Irish singer currently based in Dublin. Her natural sound, unaffected expressivity and technical ability make for an interpreter of rare dynamism. Michelle combines her classical training and background in Baroque music with an adventurous eclecticism and a passion for collaboration.

Michelle has worked regularly with Ergodos, a Dublin-based music company, since its inception in 2006. She has performed for Ergodos, both as a soloist, and as part of their flexible performing group Ergodos Musicians, in Ireland, UK, USA and Germany

The Irish Composer's Collective is delighted to announce our next concert with Gamelan Nua on the 31st July in The Studio, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland as part of our brand new concert series: In Dialogue. Gamelan Nua will perform 5 new works presented in dialogue with Peter Moran's Bonang Quartet No.1. New works by Sinéad Finegan, Alan Perrin, Kevin Free, Elaine Nolan, and Jake Morgan.

In Dialogue is a series of talks, workshops, and concerts which takes place from July to January. Five talks, five workshops, and five concerts. Each concert features a central, seminal work a with new works presented in dialogue. Corresponding talks and workshops explore the instrumentation of the central works and the composers behind them. These events serve to enhance the musical discourse between the composers of now and then.

Tickets are €12/8 + booking fee.
Book here: www.nch.ie/Online/Gamelan-Nua-31Jul17
More Info: www.irishcomposerscollective.org/in-dialogue

This event is supported generously by Arts Council and Irish Music Rights Organisation.