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Trinity Music Composition Centre proudly hosts New Music Marathon in association with CMC
This March the Trinity College Music Composition Centre in association with the Contemporary Music Centre is very proud to host The New Music Marathon during the New Music Dublin Festival. Now in its eighth year, the Marathon has become renowned as a showcase for emerging voices in the future of Irish composition. It is the annual event when exciting new composers from across the country exchange their dynamic ideas with an audience.
The New Music Marathon event consists of submissions by the cream of composition students from colleges and universities across Ireland, and promises to be an invigorating and inspirational introduction to the next generation of Irish composers. A whole range of genres will be on display providing something for everyone, from easily accessible instrumental and electronic music to cutting-edge high-tech electro-acoustic and instrumental works.
This years Marathon host, Trinity College's Music Composition Centre, is the brainchild of internationally renowned composers and staff members Donnacha Dennehy and Evangelia Rigaki. Since its foundation it has held regular public events to promote contemporary music composition in Ireland. The Centre focuses on bridging the gap between the normal acoustic environment of concert music and the cutting-edge developments in music technology.
The New Music Marathon is a free event and the public are invited to arrive at any point throughout the day from 10am and 6pm to view ongoing performances.
For more information please contact compcent@tcd.ie or visit www.nch.ie
NODE Ensemble presents its brand new compositions
On Friday 8th March 2013, the NODE ensemble presents its annual selection of brand-new contemporary compositions by undergraduate composers studying at the Department of Music, Trinity College Dublin and at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Under the supervision of Dr Evangelia Rigaki of the Music Composition Centre, student performers and composers have been working hard to prepare MOTION/ARREST. The evening consists of a diverse programme of short works for mixed ensembles, with items ranging from short chamber works to large works for vocalists, electronic instruments and conventional forces. The set features works inspired by words from E. E. Cummings, Don McLean, Emily Dickinson and others.
In the fifth year of its current incarnation, NODE provides TCD and RIAM students with the necessary outlet for their compositional energies, annually presenting a showcase concert in venues around Dublin reflecting the diverse and innovative outlook of student composers at the very outset of their musical journeys.
NODE has been the seedbed and outlet for young Irish composers including Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice, whose ethos of facilitation and collaboration has persisted in the activities of the ensemble since its early days under their careful auspices. In 2012, NODE performed a very successful and intimate concert in the rarely-explored surroundings of the premises of the Freemasons' Grand Lodge of Ireland on Molesworth Street. No stranger to the Samuel Beckett Theatre, NODE returns this year to its usual home and promises an electrifying insight into the compositional minds of Ireland's nascent musical talent.
NODE is supported by the Music Composition Center at TCD, the Provost's Visual and Performing Arts Fund and the TCD Association and Trust.
Concert begins: 8 pm sharp, Friday 8th March 2013
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
Tickets: €5 (€3 concessions available at the door only)
Box office: tcd.ie/Drama/
For more details, check out www.nodeensemble.ie or get in touch by emailing info@nodensemble.ie
United Instruments of Lucilin - Performance by Guy Frische and André Pons-Valdès
On Thursday 7th March, the Luxembourgish ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin will, in collaboration with the Music Composition Centre, be performing in Dublin for the first time at the Lir Theatre on Pearse Street. While the ensemble contains several musicians, only two, percussionist Guy Frische and violinist André Pons-Valdès, will be joining us for the concert.
The programme will consist of a selection of works by significant modern composer for percussion and/or violin:
John Cage — Branches
Georges Aperghis — Requiem Furtif
Philippe Leroux — Air-Ré
Michael Gordon — Industry
Iannis Xenakis — Rebonds A et B
Admission to the concert is free, but places are limited and so booking is advised. Tickets may be booked by emailing the Music Composition Centre at compcent@tcd.ie
The ensemble for contemporary music 'United Instruments of Lucilin' was founded in 1999 by a group of passionate Luxembourgish musicians. It's the first chamber music ensemble of Luxembourg dedicated to the promotion and creation of works from the 20th an 21st century. Lucilin is a creation platform gathering interpreters, composers and artists of every board and its aesthetic horizon covers all fields of the contemporary creation. The heart of Lucilin consists of a string quartet, piano and percussion, while wind and other instruments are invited according to the size of the projects.
André Pons-Valdès studied at the Conservatory of Aix-en-Provence with Aurélia Spadaro, and with Adrienne Privat in Marseilles. He then leaves to the United States (Manhattan) to work with Barbara Krakauer. Back in France, he wins a first price of violin with unanimity of the Jury at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Lyon.
André is a professor at the Conservatoire National de Metz since 1987. He is interested in a large repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, improvisation - with the 'Benoit Stasiaczyk trio', and indian music. Currently member of the United Instruments of Lucilin and the Ensemble Stravinsky, he is committed to the development and the diffusion of the music of the 20th and 21st century.
Guy Frisch studied classical and jazz percussion at the Conservatoires of Luxembourg, Strasbourg and The Hague, where he obtained the Diploma of Soloist in 1995. After that he specializes in the interpretation and creation of the music of today, and performs with the ensembles Accroche Note, Quiproquo and Bruits défendus (France), Alter Ego (Italy), Klangforum Wien (Austria) and Cattrall (Switzerland). But also in improvised music, with jazz musicians like Claudio Roditi (trumpet) or Michel Herr (piano). His recordings are published by Montaigne and Erol Records. Guy Frisch is the artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin, which he co-founded in 1999. Since 2000 he is also a percussion teacher at the Conservatory of Luxembourg.
Creative Entrepreneurialism and the Humanities
On Saturday 20th of October, Centre Director Evangelia Rigaki and Centre Manager Sarah Costigan attended the event 'Creative Entrepreneurialism and the Humanities'. This event was part of the Innovation Dublin Festival.
Dublintellectual and the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland presented an afternoon of events showcasing the city’s wealth of intellectual and creative capital.
The Music Composition Centre staff were thrilled to attend this event, and to have the opportunity to give a short presentation about the Centre and its activity.
'The Composer / Performer Dialogue' - Talk by Alex Kidston
Date: 1st November 2012 at 6 pm
Venue: Boydell Recital Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Music Composition Centre at Trinity College Dublin is excited to announce that Alex Kidston will visit the Centre to give a talk entitled 'The Composer / Performer Dialogue.'
Lecture: The Composer / Performer Dialogue
A call for works by an organisation such as the Irish Composers’ Collective is an opportunity to help to generate new Irish repertoire with longevity and a legacy for future performers. Impure Voices was a collaboration spearheaded by vox merus founder & director Alex Kidston. Alex has worked for 15 years as an ensemble leader and concert promoter, commissioning new works by composers from across the globe with a particular focus on the compositional process and the necessity of an effective and productive composer / performer dialogue.
Alex Kidston, BMus, MMus, LRAM, BEd
Alex is a Canadian music graduate of the University of Toronto and the Royal Academy of Music (UK). He has performed extensively with orchestras across the UK & Ireland, as well as working with nu-folk band Bellowhead, jazz combo Farmyard Trio, the show Chicago, the legendary Grimethorpe Colliery Band and with the chamber music group Trillium. Since early 2010, Alex has been Dublin-based, actively pursuing all aspects of performing and arts administration, as well as teaching brass at NUI Maynooth.
Composer Nicola LeFanu to Visit Music Composition Centre
Date: 25th October 2012 at 6pm
Venue: Boydell Recital Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Music Composition Centre at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce that Composer Nicola LeFanu will visit the Centre and give a lecture on her work.
Nicola LeFanu studied at Oxford, RCM and, as a Harkness Fellow, at Harvard. She has composed over a hundred works, which have been played and broadcast all over the world; her music is published by Novello and by Edition Peters. She has been commissioned by the BBC, by festivals in the UK and beyond, and by leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists. Throughout her career she has been associated with opera and music theatre, and has composed seven operas to date, which have been staged in UK, Ireland and USA.
(Nicola LeFanu's) Light Passing is ‘a welcome and absorbing addition to Britain’s post-Britten chamber operas…it has the equipment to entertain and illuminate for years to come’ (The Times)
'Heart Vs. Head' - Special Talk by Garrett Sholdice of Ergodos Ensemble
Date: 11th October 2012 at 6 pm
Venue: Boydell Recital Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Music Composition Centre is delighted to announce that on the 11th of October Garrett Sholdice of Ergodos Ensemble will give a special talk about his work.
Sholdice will talk about: 'heart vs. head' in the compositional process, Harmony, Counterpoint, Notation as invisible environment, his work as co-director of the production company/ensemble/record label, Ergodos, Ancestry.
Garrett Sholdice (b. 1983) is an Irish composer currently based in Berlin. His music, often written for small chamber ensembles, has been described as possessing an 'exquisite delicacy' (The Irish Times). He has received performances in Europe, North America and Japan, in venues including the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Issue Project Room in New York, and Tsukuba Nova Hall in Tokyo. Recent/regular interpreters of his music include Maya Homburger / Barry Guy duo, pianist Aki Takahashi, Amsterdam-based ensemble Trio Scordatura and Ergodos Musicians, for whom he regularly acts as musical director. Sholdice is co-director of Ergodos, a production company, record label and distributor that he founded with composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly in 2006. Recent performances include a portrait concert in the 2012 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Horizons series and the Ergodos-produced first performances of Sholdice’s minimal chamber opera Recueillement, based on writings by Charles Baudelaire, and featuring mezzo-soprano Michelle O’Rourke, dancer/choreographer Silja Thomsen and film work by Krishan Hukam. Projects for 2013 include a new clarinet concerto for Jonathan Sage and Ergodos Musicians.
Lecture from Renowned Composer Gerald Barry
Date: 4th October 2012 at 6 pm
Venue: Boydell Recital Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
On the 4th of October the 2012/13 season at the Music Composition Centre will open with a special talk from renowned composer Gerald Barry.
Gerald Barry is internationally regarded for a series of groundbreaking operas from The Intelligence Park to the most recent, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. Last year he finished The Importance of Being Earnest for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Barbican London. As adjunct professor at Trinity, he is an inspiring figure for the students and music lovers alike. The Music Composition Centre are delighted to present a public conversation between Gerald Barry and Evangelia Rigaki as the first event of the 2012/13 season.
'How I Wonder What You’re At!' - Talk by Musicologist Wolfgang Marx
Date: 5th April 2012 from 4 - 6 pm
Venue: 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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The Mornington Singers
Date: 29th March 2012 from 7 - 8.30 pm
Venue: 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)
Pianist Soheil Nasseri performs in Dublin
Date: 22nd March 2012 from 7 - 9 pm
Venue: 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
'Game Audio: The Future Of What We Feel' - Talk by Games Composer and Music Supervisor Alex Wilmer
Date: 15th March 2012 from 6 - 7 pm
Venue: Boydell Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
'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.
'Continuity and Narrative in Musical Composition: Are They Necessary?' - Talk by Experimental Composer Sever Tipei
Date: 8th March 2012 from 6 - 8 pm,
Venue: Boydell Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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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'Freedom From Right And Wrong: Recent Work' - Talk by Irish Composer Andrew Hamilton
Date: 23rd February 2012 from 6 - 8 pm
Venue: Boydell Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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
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Renowned Pianist and Composer Rolf Hind at Trinity College, Dublin
Date: 9th February 2012 from 4 - 6 pm
Venue: Boydell Room, House 5, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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.
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www.rolfhind.com
Ensemble Avalon Perform Free Lunchtime Concert
Date: 22nd January 2012 at 1 pm
Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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
Alumni Garrett Sholdice featured in The Irish Times
Read the full article here at irishtimes.com
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#
Linda Buckley - 'Immersia'
Ergodos release
http://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/immersia