Benedict Schlepper Connolly

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Setting up a shot from Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Dust. Photograph: Kip Carroll
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“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

President Michael D Higgins and Roger Doyle at a ceremony honouring the composer as a Saoi in Aosdána, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the arts. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times
Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers

Composer Roger Doyle, a member of Aosdána since 1986, has been been awarded the organisation’s highest honour. He was elected a Saoi earlier this year(...)

Wu Wei played at New Music Dublin 2018: Defrosted at the weekend.
New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm

You just can’t envy John Harris, the director of the New Music Dublin festival. At the beginning of March the so-called Beast from the East and Storm (...)

Director John Harris: lumbered with new commitments?
Director’s first full festival hoves into view

There’s a great, thought-provoking line by GK Chesterton in which he claims that “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly”. I first came ac(...)

Ergodos Musicians: Songs
  • Music
  • August 15, 2014, 00:00

In the end, it all comes back to songs. Though we may turn an ambitious ear to a Beethoven symphony, a Seamus Ennis reel or a late Coltrane improvisat(...)

Gerard Gillen: upbeat musician
Pulling out the stops in Dún Laoghaire

The organ series at St Michael’s Church in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin started its 40th series on Sunday, and Gerard Gillen, the man who began it all, wa(...)