Ahead of the premiere of a new work for singer Eimear Quinn, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, composer Emma O'Halloran talks about the holy grail of composing, city life and where to begin when writi

Recordings of recent work by Irish composer Enda Bates are being released during a CMC Salon event at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, on Wednesday, 25 April.

Based in Dartington College, Devon, the Mhararano Mbira Academy will run courses in the mbira, an African instrument consisting of metal keys mounted on a wooden soundboard.

A rootless generation needs an updated idea of folk music, by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

The digital medium will set radio free, but will it change the essence of radio, asks Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

The Orchestra of St Cecilia’s ten-year series of Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas culminated this year. Benedict Schlepper-Connolly reflects on their allure.

Dirty Projectors / Tune Yards, Whelan’s, Dublin, 16 September 2009

Nico Muhly (piano), Nadia Sirota (viola), Helgi Jonsson (trombone, voice), Absolut Fringe Festival, Spiegeltent, Dublin, 6 September 2009

Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum (sopranos), Arve Henriksen (trumpet) St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, Co. Cork1 July 2009I got spectacularly lost on the long drive down to Bantry.

Amstel Saxophone Quartet, Maria McGarry (piano), Cathal Roche (saxophone). Various venues, Sligo. 20 September 2008

Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin13 September 2008There’s a 1982 interview between John Cage and the then young Belgian composer Wim Mertens on UbuWeb.

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly gives an insider’s view of the Irish Composers’ Collective.

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly talks to Paul G. Smyth, improvising pianist and keyboard player with The Jimmy Cake.

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk, Co. Louth14 February 2008The old joke, of course, is that you wait forever for a bus and then two come along at once.

Daghdha Space, Limerick3 November 2007Chris Abrahams’ hands rest silently on the piano keys, hesitate, reconsider, retreat. A second attempt to begin reveals a single tone, repeated with a silver care, racing ahead and pulling back.

Arvo Pärt, Kanon PokajanenSt. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin 23 September 2007It took considerable daring for Galway-based chamber choir Cois Cladaigh to bring the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir to Ireland.

Sligo New Music Festival 2007 · Contemporary Music from Spain

A review of Ross W. Duffin's new book on tuning, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and why you should care).

John Field Room, NCH27 November 2006Leaving The National Concert Hall, it took some time for the bemusingly warm sentiment to fade.

It was good to see that the Crash Ensemble hasn’t lost their rogue spirit as resident ensemble to the O’Reilly Theatre on Denmark Street. Indeed, they seemed to relish...

Fergus Johnston's 'Brahms Begins the Day'World premiere Brahmsfest, NSO, Baiba Skride (violin), Gerhard Markson (cond.), NCH, Dublin, 28 April 2006Fergus Johnston’s Brahms begins the day is sculpted from unlikely clay: the m

NCH, Dublin, 24 January 2006Thea Musgrave – Memento Vitae; Doyle – Four Sketches for Orchestra; Raymond Deane – Embers; Doyle – Fragments from These Unsolved Mysteries; Doyle – All the Rage.RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra,...