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/].
Joy
Ceol don Bhéal Bocht
The Irish Art Song Project/Amhrán Ealaíne Ghaeilge (Artistic Director: Dáirine Ní Mheadhra) was launched on October 17th. I set excerpts from Myles na gCopaleen’s (Flann O’Brien) “An Béal Bocht”. You can listen to the performance and download the tracks and score of my piece “Ceol don Bhéal Bocht” (Music for the Poor Mouth) by Rachel Kelly and John Hess here
music for people who like the future
Here’s a performance of music for people who like the future (2010) a setting of text by Richard Wagner, by the LA based HEX vocal ensemble from December 2018:
New and old work at Tanglewood
The Tanglewood festival will feature a new work commissioned by the festival: g=piano quartet (for agnes martin) on August 9th and a performance of music for people who like art on August 11th.
