Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic

Once a communal activity, choral singing has been a high-risk one during the pandemic

Year in Culture Review: Key directors stepped down, while performers stepped up in classical music and opera

Michael Dervan: Against the odds, Defrosted event offered memorable performances

Choirland, a collection of 15 pieces for unaccompanied choir, goes on tour

From the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash Ensemble

New Music Dublin festival director claims rumoured cutbacks would have trickle-down effect

From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of others

James MacMillan: Since it was the day of Preparation…Brindley Sherratt (bass), Synergy Vocals, Hebrides EnsembleDelphian DCD 341684

Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music

None of the Budget’s so-called feelgood factor reached the arts, which received no boost in funding

Michael Symmons Roberts is at home in science as he is in scripture, as happy with the sensory world as with the transcendent – which makes his poetry all the stronger

Attending rehearsals of a Massenet double bill ahead of the Wexford Festival Opera was a deja vu experience