The musician, whose jazz ballet suite Spondance is about to be re-released, is as important to jazz as John Banville is to literature, Robert Ballagh to art and Gay Byrne to TV

The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month

With her National Concert Hall programme, the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught is on a mission to fill gaps in the way singers are trained and cared for

Amplifying the Irish song tradition at the National Concert Hall is a welcome pitstop on the band’s winding career path

The clarinetist and National Concert Hall artist-in-residence on navigating conservatoire culture and what ‘holding space’ means to her

With his acoustic band, this idiosyncratic musician displays the extraordinary breadth and depth of his talent

Composer Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast, then grew up in south Wales. His Irishness has become increasingly important to his identity

The disarmingly direct cellist, who plays in Ireland this month, leaped to fame with John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil. It was the start of an illustrious career

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The singer is loving his relatively newfound role as a father, which began at the age of 59

In homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deserves

The world’s first orchestra of musicians with and without disabilities will perform in the National Concert Hall on November 30th

The Mercury Prize-winning singer on Trump’s misogyny, climate change and preparing to celebrate her mentor Lou Reed in Dublin

On the first of two evenings, the composer leads his ensemble through first his new album and then his Iraq War ‘protest record’

Singing the same role in the same place as the opera great was a goal fulfilled for Ireland’s leading mezzo and NCH artist-in-residence

The performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to Dublin

Michael Riesman, music director of the Philip Glass Ensemble, on the works by the composer that they’re bringing to Ireland

Opera: Conductor Ryan McAdams draws lively, fresh playing to a concert performance featuring Paula Murrihy, Anna Devin and Niamh O’Sullivan

My comedic, commercial fiction has been described as ‘fluffy’ or ‘an easy read’ more times than my heart and ego can take

Cork mezzo-soprano on her packed schedule, shifting pitch and the sadness of being away from home with constant travelling for performances and rehearsals