Siobhan Cleary
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New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground
- Music
- March 4, 2020, 05:00
Remember the National Concert Hall’s old Kevin Barry Room? The one which turned Earlsfort Terrace into a destination for experimental and offbeat musi(...)

The best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
- Music
- February 29, 2020, 05:00
Saturday, February 29th New Music Dublin National Concert Hall and other venues; newmusicdublin.ie The last two days of the New Music Dublin festival(...)

The best classical music and opera to see this week
- Music
- February 22, 2020, 05:00
SATURDAY 22 Fidelio National Concert Hall, Dublin The honour of performing Beethoven’s uplifting opera Fidelio in this special commemorative y(...)

Sounding the Feminists: Women composers in the spotlight
- Music
- October 3, 2018, 05:00
Waking the Feminists has inspired moves within the musical world to improve the lot for female composers. The Minister for Culture, Josepha Madigan, d(...)

Composer Siobhán Cleary opens Arts Council can of worms
- Music
- July 25, 2018, 05:00
The news that an established Irish composer declined a lucrative Arts Council commission on the basis of gender bias has to be a matter for serious co(...)

Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution
- Stage
- July 14, 2018, 06:00
What a difference a couple of years can make. Some top players in Irish theatre are chatting in the Lir Academy of Dramatic Art in Dublin. Anne Clarke(...)

Claude Debussy centenary: Irish composers salute the master
- Music
- June 13, 2018, 05:00
The centenary of the death of Debussy has led to a predictable upsurge in performances of his music. Mostly it’s been a matter of one-off extras, as i(...)

Embracing the ethos of Sounding the Feminists
- Music
- March 14, 2018, 05:15
Back in May 2016 when details were announced of Composing the Island, the huge festival celebrating the century of music written by Irish composers fo(...)

Anna Tsybuleva and Jaime Martin: The best classical music this week
- Music
- March 3, 2018, 05:00
Saturday, March 3rd Anna Tsybuleva Courthouse Centre, Tinahely 8.30pm €16/€15 musicnetwork.ie; and on tour to Skibbereen, Dún Laoghaire, Castlebar, (...)

Nymphs, shepherds and monsters in a rural Irish bar
- Music
- March 29, 2017, 06:00
Handel’s Acis and Galatea is a masque rather than an opera proper. “There will be no Action on the stage,” says a 1732 advertisement by Handel, “but t(...)