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
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:
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.
On June 22nd 2019 participants of the Nief-Norf Summer Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee will perform music for people who like art. More info here.
‘c’ (2016) will be have its first UK performance at the Tectonics Festival by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov on May 4th. More info here.
Aoife Ni Bhriain from Crash Ensemble will perform WALDO, a work for solo violin originally written for the South African violinist Waldo Alexander on March 8th in The Korzo Theatre, The Hague. More details here.
The Chilean/Irish filmmaker José Miguel Jiménez has made three films for the pieces O’ROURKE (performed by Michelle O’Rourke), music for donkeys who like music and music for people who like art C (both performed by Crash Ensemble ). They were first shown at the Irish Film Institute on December 16th and you can watch them here:
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