New Music Dublin, Hugh Tinney, RTÉ NSO/Michail Jurowski

Michael Dervan: Moves are afoot to orchestrate more equitable representation

There were, of course, multiple pleasures along the way – this was a leading Czech orchestra playing some of the greatest Czech music

2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCH

The German composer is a master of quite contradictory styles and his output runs to more than 400 works

The NSO’s new principal guest conductor hit it off again with orchestra and audience

The celebration of 100 years of Irish composition hits mid-century, revealing a dark age for orchestral music

The Royal Irish Academy of Music’s collaborative concert was strong on Irish writers but weak on our composers