Simon Taylor

Busy classical music promoters suggest lifting of recession

It helps, of course, that most of what was on offer was what you would call bankable fare

National Concert Hall to get major facelift

After 20 years of false starts, €78m investment announced as part of Project Ireland 2040

Embracing the ethos of Sounding the Feminists

A new commissioning scheme will provide opportunity to established and emerging [female] composers to have their work commissioned and performed at the NCH

French Baroque back in vogue at the National Concert Hall

Magdalena Kozena makes singing seem like an entirely natural activity

Chamber Music Gathering ignores female composers for second year

The NCH event has a thing or two to learn from West Cork Festival

Playing politics with the RTÉ orchestra cutbacks controversy

Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause

John O’Conor to receive NCH Lifetime Achievement award

The pianist marks his 70th birthday year with a wonderful coda

The true cost of that tropical hardwood table

Global Witness co-founder Patrick Alley exposes links between ecocide and genocide

National Concert Hall needs to go beyond classical music

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

Fight for gender equality moves from theatre to music

When it comes to ‘gender mainstreaming’, we can learn something from Vienna city hall

Backstage diaries: how we’re planning for a cultural 2017

Big hopes for festivals throughout the coming year

‘Composing the Island’ was a landmark and there is no going back

The event highlighting a neglected repertoire from Irish composers should happen every year

A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Arts Council director Orlaith McBride’s contract to be extended

McBride’s is one of a number of high-profile culture contracts due to expire

New York Philharmonic helps NCH keep ticket revenues steady

Some 320,000 people visited the National Concert Hall in 2015 but rising expenses sees venue report €300,000 deficit

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