Contemporary Music Centre Ireland 2015 Programme of Events 2015 The Contemporary Music Centre 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Ireland tel: +353-1-673 1922 cmcireland cmcireland www.cmc.ie Contemporary Music Centre Ireland | | | | | | | | Programme of Events 2015 l CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music l RTÉ NSO Horizons Series l CMC Catalogue Promotion Composers Voice Talk 27 January 2015 l CMC Continuous Professional Development Programme Evonne Ferguson in conversation with l CMC International Dimension featured composer Philip Hammond. l CMC Special Project In partnership with RTÉ Performing Groups. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music JANUARY FEBRUARY l RTÉ NSO Horizons Series Composers Voice Talk l RTÉ NSO Horizons Series 13 January 2015 Composer’s Voice Talk Evonne Ferguson in conversation with 3 February 2015 featured composer Grainne Mulvey. Evonne Ferguson in conversation with In partnership with RTÉ Performing Groups. featured composer John Buckley. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music In partnership with RTÉ Performing Groups. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music l RTÉ NSO Horizons Series Composers Voice Talk l Night Music Series and 20 January 2015 CMC New Music Voices Evonne Ferguson in conversation with 4 February 2015 featured composer David Coonan. CMC New Music Voices panel with Hard Rain In partnership with RTÉ Performing Groups. Soloist Ensemble. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music In partnership with Moving on Music and Belfast Music Society. l CMC Composer’s Voice Series CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music 25 Jan 2015 CMC presents Composer’s Voice talks l New Music:: New Audiences throughout the RTÉ Contempo Quartet (NewAud) Father and Sons tour with Jane O’Leary at 17 February 2015 Hugh Lane, Dublin, 25 Jan and later with CMC participates in Steering Group meeting Deirdre McKay at Hugh Lane (29 March); for NewAud in Copenhagen. John McLachlan at Hugh Lane (31 May) and at CMC International Dimension Granary Arts Centre Limerick (29 May); Ian Wilson at Hugh Lane (29 April). In partnership with RTÉ Performing Groups. MARCH CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music l Night Music Series and CMC New Music Voices 4 March 2015 CMC New Music Voices talk with Ian Wilson In partnership with Moving on Music and Belfast Music Society. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music RTÉ Contempo Quartet 2 Contemporary Music Centre Ireland | | | | | | | | Programme of Events 2015 l Visit of Broadcaster John Schaefer l New Notes Now! 4/9/10 March 2015 22 March 2015 US Broadcaster John Schaefer (WNYC) CMC produces and manages two public New Sounds visits Ireland on the invitation of performances in the Mermaid Arts Centre CMC and meets with composers in Belfast (4 of Vincent Kennedy commission by Wicklow March), Dublin and Cork, (9/10 March) and Council Council for Music Generation creates 7 radio programmes for New Sounds Wicklow, The Wicklow Ways, featuring 10 on WNYC, subsequently broadcast in April musicians and 100 children from 4 schools in 2015. County Wicklow. Supported by American Embassy. In partnership with Music Generation Wicklow. CMC International Dimension CMC Special Project l CMC Salon at NCH 25 March 2015 Electro-acoustic programme with works and live performance by composers Stephen Roddy, Roy Carroll and Neil O’Connor. Hosted by Curator Siobhan Cleary. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music l CMC Composer’s Voice Talk CMC Composer’s Voice talk with Conor Broadcaster John Schaefer (WNYC) Linehan at the Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire. In partnership with Music Network. l New Music from Ireland CD launch CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music 5 March 2015 CMC CD New Music from Ireland Volume Two is launched by John Schaefer (WNYC, New Sounds) in CMC with performances by APRIL Darragh Morgan (violin). l CMC Catalogue Promotion Night Music Series New Music Voices talk 2 April 2015 l New Music Dublin Festival 2015 CMC New Music Voices talk with pianist 5, 6, 7 March 2015 Therese Fahy and composers Grainne Mulvey CMC hosts series of panel discussions and and Raymond Deane. interviews with composers Garrett Sholdice, In partnership with Moving on Music and Sean Clancy, Andrew Hamilton, Irene Buckley Belfast Music Society. and Linda Buckley presented by John Schaefer. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music In partnership with National Concert Hall and RTÉ Performing Groups. l Handel Day 2015: Contemporary CMC Special Project Irish Choral Music Exhibition 13 April 2015 Specially curated exhibition to tie in with Temple Bar Cultural Trust Messiah on the Street performance. CMC Catalogue Promotion 3 Contemporary Music Centre Ireland | | | | | | | | Programme of Events 2015 l OurTunes - New Music Festival for MAY Children - MusicTown 2015 18,19 April 2015 l CMC Salon at National Concert Hall Eight separate performances in 8 separate 20 May 2015 locations within CMC featuring music by Emma Lloyd (viola/viola d’amore) and David Bremner, Martin O’Leary, Anne-marie Matthew Whiteside (electronics) perform O’Farrell, Kevin Corcoran amongst others works by Matthew Whiteside, Linda Buckley curated by cellist Adrian Mantu for children and Ed Bennett, with curator and host age 5 - 10 years. Siobhan Cleary. Grant aided by MusicTown. In partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music CMC Special Project Matthew Whiteside l Classical Next 21 May 2015 CMC represents Contemporary Music from Ireland at International Trade Fair - Classical: Next in Rotterdam. Our Tunes CMC International Dimension l CMC Composer’s Voice l IAMIC Spring Meeting 2015 23 April 2015 22 – 26 May 2015 CMC Composer’s Voice talk with Ian Wilson CMC attends the Spring meeting of the in Waterford City Hall, Waterford. International Association of Music Information In partnership with Music Network. Centre’s during Classical:Next in Rotterdam. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music CMC International Dimension l CMC Salon at National Concert Hall 28 April 2015 Eamonn Cagney (percussion), Niwel Tsumba (acoustic guitar), Martin Tourish (piano accordion) and Roger Doyle (electronics) with curator and host Siobhan Cleary. CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music 4 Contemporary Music Centre Ireland | | | | | | | | Programme of Events 2015 JUNE l International Residency Programme 23 - 31 July CMC supports composer Daniel Barkley l Colin Currie Percussion Workshop participating in an International Residency in 10 June 2015 Sibiu, Romania, culminating in a performance CMC hosts percussion workshop by by the ConTempo Quartet. Internationally renowned percussionist Colin Currie in Royal Irish Academy of Music. CMC International Dimension In partnership with Great Music in Irish Houses. CMC Continuous Professional Development Programme l SoundSCAPE Annual Irish Residency Award 4 - 17 July 2014 Jennifer Walshe awarded third annual Irish Artist-in-Residence at soundSCAPE, Italy. In partnership with the Association of Irish Composers. CMC International Dimension SEPTEMBER l International Association of Music Information Centres Conference 2015 11 - 13 September 2015 CMC participates in the Annual Conference of the International Association of Music Information Centre’s Conference in Colin Currie Switzerland and attends the Swiss Music Prize ceremony. CMC International Dimension JULY l l CMC Summer Residency Culture Night 2015 6 - 17 July 18 September 2015 Composer Maria Minguella is the first CMC presents a recipient of the CMC Summer Residency programme featuring and completes a two week residency at the Gavin Brennan, saxophone, Centre. and Aileen Cahill, keyboard; composer CMC Continuous Professional Development Programme Anna Murray and soprano Michelle O’Rourke; composer and musician Enda Bates; crOw, a duo featuring Cathal Roche on saxophones and Ian Cathal Roche Wilson on live electronics and a new multi-media piece for electronics and visual media by Seán Clancy. Maria Minguella CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music 5 Contemporary Music Centre Ireland | | | | | | | | Programme of Events 2015 l New Ross Piano Festival CMC l Four Solo Spaces as part of View Composer’s Voice Talk Temple Bar Arts Week 26 - 29 September 2015 21 Nov 2015 CMC hosts Composer Voice talks at Four contemporary concert works for soloist the New Ross Festival with composers and electronics performed in four different Deirdre Gribbin, Linda Buckley, Andrew venues in Temple Bar with performers Hamilton, Sam Perkin and Eric Sweeney. Paul Roe (bass clarinet), Gavin Brennan (saxophone), Pablo Manjón-Cabezas Guzmán CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music (clarinet), Joe O’ Farrell (flute) performing works by Ben McHugh, Ann Cleare, Ed Bennett and Grainne Mulvey. OCTOBER CMC Audience Development for New Irish Music l CMC Choral Catalogues (Mixed Voice Repertoire) l Musical Tales Exhibition 21 October 2015 16 Nov - 4 Dec 2015 Composer Rhona Clarke gives presentation To accompany the Musical Tales concert at the symposium of the City of Derry series in Libraries the books which International Choral Festival to promote inspired the concerts are on display in The CMC Choral Catalogue. Contemporary Music Centre Library. CMC Catalogue Promotion CMC Catalogue Promotion l CMC Salon at RIAM l Musical Tales at Central Library 29 October 2015 26 Nov 2015 Cassiopeia Winds perform works by John Works by composers Jane O’Leary, Ben Buckley and Joan Trimble with curator and Dwyer, Grainne Mulvey, Raymond Deane host Siobhan Cleary. and Siobhan Cleary, from recently published