Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30

The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold

The Belfast man studied at Cambridge with the goal of becoming a composer, but the lure of conducting led him to a rewarding career in the US

Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’

Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business

What, you haven’t heard of Zaftig Giolla or the Guinness Dadaists? Let Jennifer Walshe enlighten you

Honest memoir of life as an alcoholic

In times of conflict, culture also becomes a battleground

Artist says generals have been polishing the medals and buttons they got ‘for killing people’

When reviewing, the composer’s invective was extreme. He is no less frank when writing about his own life, alcoholism and recovery

Opera repertoire has broadened since the French composer’s 1967 comments, and ‘The Invader’ continues a fine recent tradition of new opera in Ireland

The most frequently quoted number for piano students in China is 50 million. The implications are huge

A study nails the myth of the yawning gap between present instruments and those of the great masters

A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme

The past week saw operatic premieres in Dublin by Raymond Deane and, of all people, Antonin Dvorak

When Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, broke up with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he made an anatomically accurate doll of her, and that's inspired Raymond Deane's third opera

The bowing-out of one of RTÉ’s most experienced musical hands is a bombshell

The RTÉ Vanbrugh and Jupiter String Quartets produced a blitz of energy

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is failing to engage with modern music, and this needs to change