Author: andyfhamilton
erth upon erth
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
THE HEAVENS
Proclamation of the Republic
“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
music for donkeys who like music
‘a’ on Score Follower
‘a’ from the recently released album JOY was chosen by Score Follower for the 2020 call for works:
Composer in Residence with Crash Ensemble
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
Joy, the new solo album was released on June 8th and is available to download and stream here on Ergodos Records.

music for people who want to go home
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:
May- new video by Emma Martin
New film for the track “May” from the forthcoming album “Joy” by Emma Martin [http://unitedfall.com/], editing by Luca Truffarelli [https://www.lucatruffarelli.com/].