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5 April 2012, 4-6 PM, Trinity Long Room Hub | Trinity College | Dublin 2
The Music Composition Centre at Trinity College presents….
“How I wonder what you’re at!”:
The Nonsense Madrigals in the Context of Ligeti’s Late Oeuvre
Composer György Ligeti
On Thursday 5 April 2012, the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College will host its last event of the year, with a free talk on Composer György Ligeti, given by Musicologist Wolfgang Marx. The event will take place at 4pm in the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College.
The talk will cover Ligeti’s Nonsense Madrigals, a subject which has been neglected by Ligeti scholarship until Marx’ forthcoming publication for the Ligeti Conference in London in March 2012.
Wolfgang Marx is Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Deputy Head of the School of Music and Chairman of the UCD Academic Forum. His main research interests are György Ligeti, the representation of death in music and the theory of musical genres.
Based on recent studies of Ligeti's sketches in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, the talk will focus on Ligeti's compositional process, from the textual results of first "brainstorming exercises" via different stages of musical notation to revisions in the wake of rehearsals or performances.
We are delighted to host Wolfgang Marx as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
The talk is free, but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
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March 29th, 2012, 7-8.30 PM, Brennan Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music | 38 Westland Row | Dublin 2
The Music Composition Centre at Trinity College presents….
An open rehearsal with:
The Mornington Singers
- "Beautifully spun ... crisply articulated" - The Journal of Music
- "Some of the sweetest sounds you'll have heard" - Morning Ireland
On Thursday, 29 March 2012, the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College will host a free open rehearsal with The Mornington Singers. The event will take place at 7pm in Brennan Hall at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row.
The open rehearsal will give participants an opportunity to observe the choir's approach to learning new music, with an emphasis upon the rehearsal techniques employed to meet the challenges presented by these works. The event will be followed by an open Q&A with the choir.
The Mornington Singers is an award-winning mixed-voice choir based in Dublin and conducted by TCD music lecturer Orla Flanagan. The choir has around thirty-five singers from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities including Ireland, England, Wales, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Australia and the USA.
Awarded the Grand Prix at Sligo International Choral Festival in 2009, 3rd Prize in the Fleischmann International Trophy Competition in 2008, and 1st Prize in Lyric FM's 'Choirs for Christmas' competition in 2008, the Mornington Singers has established itself as one of Ireland's leading choirs. The choir performs a wide range of choral music, with a particular focus on a cappella repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries.
We are delighted to host The Mornington Singers, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
The event is free, but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
Programme
- Arvo Part: …which was the son of... (2000)
- Julian Anderson: Beautiful Valley of Eden (2004)
- David Lang: again (after ecclesiastes) (2005)
- Ian Wilson: i carry your heart (2011)
- Paul Flynn: Hymnus Sancti Camelaci (2012)
March 22nd, 2012 | 7-9 PM | Brennan Hall | Royal Irish Academy of Music | | 38 Westland Row, Dublin 2
Pianist SOHEIL NASSERI performs in Dublin
“One of New York’s most acclaimed young musicians” - Time Out London
“A compelling recitalist. Consistently interesting... consistently thoughtful...
a vivid imagination. Filled with character... fresh ideas... a magnificent technique.”- The New York Times
On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College will host a free recital by pianist Soheil Nasseri, accompanied by a talk by composer Hormoz Farhat. The event will take place at 7pm in the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
The concert will open with a talk by Farhat, relating to his piece on the programme. "Sonata No. 2", written for Nasseri and was premiered in 2011 in New York: “Mr. Farhat…wrote to Mr. Nasseri’s strengths ...East and West flirt throughout the piece...modal melodies give way to passages cast in a mildly angular, modernist style..." – The New York Times. This performance in Dublin will be the Irish premiere.
American pianist Soheil Nasseri has made a name for himself primarily through 20 completely different solo recitals in New York City since his debut in 2001, but he has also performed to acclaim in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Florence, Bucharest, Palermo, Montreal, Tehran and in the U.S.A. from Jacksonville to Portland.
Born in 1978 to Iranian parents in Santa Monica, California, Nasseri began studying the piano at the age of five and at the age of twenty moved to New York in part to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Now based in Berlin and New York, in 2001 Mr. Nasseri became a protégé of Jerome Lowenthal who remains Mr. Nasseri’s mentor today, along with Claude Frank.
Hormoz Farhat (b.1929 Tehran, Iran) is an important figure among Iranian (Western-) classical musicians, in part because of his book The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music. He studied with Darius Milhaud, Lukas Foss, and Roy Harris, at Mills College and UCLA. In the 1970s he was the head of the music department at Tehran University, and since 1979 he has lived in Ireland where, until his recent retirement, he was Professor and Head of the School of Music at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently the External Examiner at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Farhat has served as Visiting Professor at numerous international universities including Harvard University, UCLA, The Queen’s University of Belfast, and universities in Edinburgh, Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Lublijana. His music has been performed by, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra.
We are delighted to host Soheil Nasseri and Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
Programme:
Hormoz Farhat : Sonata No. 2 (2011)
Beethoven : Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”
The event is free, but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
http://www.soheilnasseri.com
March 15th, 2012, 6-7 PM, Boydell Room, House 5, TCD
“Game Audio: The future of what we feel”
Games Composer and Music Supervisor Alex Wilmer speaks at Trinity College
Alex Wilmer is the President of the San Francisco International Game Developers Association. He has lead the sound division on such games as Tomb Raider and The Guardian of Light.
On Thursday, March 15th, 2012, the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College will host a free talk by Games Composer and Music Supervisor Alex Wilmer via Skype from California. The talk will take place at 6pm in the Boydell Room in House 5, Trinity College.
Wilmer is a leading sound designer, mixer and sound supervisor in the Film and Video Games industry. He is currently audio lead on a forthcoming AAA game at Crystal Dynamics as well as working on the next major Tomb Raider game. While Alex contributes to all areas of audio on Tomb Raider, his main focus is on music implementation. Before Tomb Raider, he was Audio Lead on Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Formerly, Alex served as Sound Designer at Berkeley Sound Artists where he headed the game division and worked on Oscar nominated films such as "Conscience of Nhem-en" and "The Most Dangerous Man in America".
We are delighted to host Alex Wilmer at Trinity College, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
The talk is free, but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
March 8th, 2012, 6-8 PM, Boydell Room, House 5, TCD
Continuity and Narrative in Musical Composition: Are They Necessary?
Experimental Composer Sever Tipei speaks at Trinity College
Sever Tipei regards the computer as a collaborator whose skills and abilities complement those of the human artist. He sees the composition of music both as an experimental and a speculative endeavor that delivers a particular world view.
On Thursday, March 8th, 2012, the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College will host a free talk by composer Sever Tipei, visiting from the University of Illinois. The talk will take place at 6pm in the Boydell Room in House 5, Trinity College.
Sever Tipei was born in Bucharest, Romania, and immigrated to the United States in 1972. He holds degrees in composition and piano performance from the University of Michigan and Bucharest Conservatory, now National Academy of Music at Bucharest.
Tipei has been teaching since 1978 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music where he also manages the Computer Music Project of the UIUC Experimental Music Studios.
Most of his compositions were produced with software he designed: MP1 -a computer-assisted composition program first used in 1973, DIASS and DISCO - programs for sound synthesis, and M4CAVE - software for the visualization of music in an immersive virtual environment. More recently, Tipei and his collaborators have developed DISSCO, software that unifies computer-assisted (algorithmic) composition and (additive) sound synthesis into a seamless process.
Between 1993 and 2003, Tipei was also a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory where he worked on the sonification of complex scientific data.
We are delighted to host Sever Tipei at Trinity College, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
The talk is free, but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
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February 23rd, 2012, 6-8 PM, Boydell Room, House 5, TCD
Freedom from right and wrong: recent work
Irish Composer Andrew Hamilton speaks at Trinity College
"…quirky, witty, mechanistic, often ear-candyish.....a tour-de-force of tinyness."
- The Irish Times
“a master of variation”
- De Volkskrant
Hamilton will focus on his recent piece "right and wrong" (2011) and will examine in detail his writing process and the various types of music that inform it.
Hamilton has worked and studied with such composers as Kevin Volans, Roger Marsh, Anthony Gilbert and Louis Andriessen. His works have been performed by groups such as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Singers, the Hilliard Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, de ereprijs, Concorde, [rout], Ixion, Orkest de Volharding and the Allegri String Quartet. His works have also featured in major festivals including the Gaudeamus, Huddersfield, Ultraschall Berlin, and RTÉ Living Music festivals, and the Brighton and New Music Days in Hoxton, London.
We are delighted to host Andrew Hamilton at Trinity College, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012. The recently established Centre for Music Composition is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century.
The talk is free and tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie
www.tcd.ie/music-composition
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02 February
Renowned Pianist and Composer Rolf Hind at Trinity College, Dublin
To mark the launch of the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College, Ensemble Avalon will be performing a free lunchtime concert on Sunday, January 22nd at the Samuel Beckett Theatre at 1:00pm.
On Thursday, February 9th, the Music Composition Centre will continue its series of concerts and talks with the welcoming of Rolf Hind, visiting Composer and Concert Pianist. The event will take place in the Boydell Room in House 5 of Trinity College from 4-6pm.
As a Composer, Rolf has worked closely with such Contemporary Music greats as John Adams, Lachenmann, Xenakis and Messian. Hind has performed with world famous music bodies such as The BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Stockholm Sinfionetta as a Pianist.
We are delighted to host Rolf Hind at Trinity College, as part of the Music Composition Centre, launched in January 2012.
The concert is free, but tickets but tickets must be reserved by emailing Claire Hefferon at compcent@tcd.ie.
www.tcd.ie/music-composition
www.rolfhind.com
13 January
Ensemble Avalon will be performing a free lunchtime concert on Sunday, January 22nd.
To mark the launch of the Music Composition Centre at Trinity College, Ensemble Avalon will be performing a free lunchtime concert on Sunday, January 22nd at the Samuel Beckett Theatre at 1:00pm.
As Trinity College's Ensemble-in-Residence, Ensemble Avalon is a fresh and dynamic piano trio featuring three of Ireland's finest internationally accomplished soloists and chamber musicians. Since their inaugural concert together in the summer of 2006 the trio have performed concerts, tours and series in Ireland, Italy and UK and enjoy regular broadcasts on radio and television.
The recently established Music Composition Centre at Trinity College is providing a new platform to produce active, practical composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century. The Centre will be the core structure representing composition activity in Trinity College.
The concert is FREE of charge; however you must reserve tickets in order to attend the event by Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 5pm. Contact compcent@tcd.ie to reserve your tickets.
Programme:
Evangelia Rigaki – To Be Elsewhere
Arvo Pärt – Fratres
Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor opus 67
10 January
Alumni Garrett Sholdice featured in The Irish Times
Read the full article here at irishtimes.com
31 January
Donnacha Dennehy
Stamp
Smith Quartet compilation CD, Dance, features pieces by Tan Dun, Michael Nyman, John Adams and Joe Cutler
Signum Classics release
http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd236/index.shtml
24 January
Linda Buckley
Immersia
Ergodos release
http://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/immersia