Andrew Hamilton

A new opera scene commissioned by Irish National Opera as part of 20 Shots of Opera. Performed by Sinéad Campbell-Wallace with RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Fergus Shiel. Directed by Jo Mangan

“Some of it was crazy: Hamilton’s Proclamation of the Republic was a wildly difficult recreation of the ‘confusion and repetition of Patrick Pearse’s reading of the text during the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin’. Christopher Fox: TEMPO, April 2017

‘a’ from the recently released album JOY was chosen by Score Follower for the 2020 call for works:

I am delighted to have been invited to be composer in residence with Crash Ensemble. I will be working with them on a new hour-long work for 2021. My relationship with the ensemble goes back to 2003 and they commissioned and recorded ‘music for people who like art’ which you can see here in a film made by José Miguel Jiménez:

Joy, the new solo album was released on June 8th and is available to download and stream here on Ergodos Records.

As part of the Music Network Butterfly Sessions I wrote a new solo violin piece ‘music for people who want to go home’ for Mairéad Hickey and you can see the online performance here: