‘When my life was more stable, my music was more active, more gritty. When my life has been chaotic my music has calmed down’
New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
Works by Irish composer Raymond Deane enclose a much longer piece by Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov
NCH hosts concerts by Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki and Malcolm Proud
With more than 20 events over four days, the festival features the best in contemporary music
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing
Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney
Ireland’s Tombeau to Debussy includes new pieces from seven Irish composers and a trio of NCH concerts
There’s no way that the whole programme can be saved – it’s too big and too complicated for that
Classical highlights: Veronika Eberle, Tallis Scholars and RTÉ Contempo Quartet
Elisaveta Blumina in Dublin, RTÉ Contempo Quartet on tour and Irish Baroque Orchestra
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
The celebration of 100 years of Irish composition hits mid-century, revealing a dark age for orchestral music
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
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices