Conor Kostick
1 May 2006
Project Arts Centre,5 April 2006There is a quickening in the musical life of Ireland. The Steve Reich RTÉ Living Music Festival in February demonstrated that there is an enthusiastic audience here for contemporary music. The Node concert this April...
1 January 2006
(World Première; RTÉ commission) RTÉ National Symphony OrchestraNational Concert Hall, Dublin, 18 November 2005Gerhard Markson, conductorWhen RTÉ’s Director of Music, Niall Doyle, introduced Raymond Deane’s newest...
1 July 2005
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 25-27 May 2005For three days in May, people were queuing to go to bed with Jennifer Walshe. The bed in question is a musical instrument, a two-metre sound box, looking like a table, on which you lie, while the composer lies underneath,...
1 July 2004
Dear Editor,Patrick Zuk continues to champion the ideas of the book Reviving the Muse: Essays on Music after Modernism (‘Composition and Criticism’, March–April JMI). The thrust of the book is that modernism represents a degeneration for...
1 May 2003
NCH, 16 April 2003Darragh Morgan (vn), Chris George (vn), Bridget Carey (va), Sophie Harris (vc)Pawel Szymanski – Two piecesGerald Barry – Six MarchesCleary – The Andalusian Dog Clear – Its ‘d’ Jim, but not as we know itCleary...
1 January 2003
Concorde & Harry Sparnaay, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, 7 December 2002. Ingólfson – Vink 2 (1994) O’Leary – Reflections II (2002); Torstensson – Spans (1981); Olofsson – Le Miroir Caché (2002); Sermilä...
1 November 2002
Are there any objective standards by we can judge music or is it all a matter of individual taste?
1 November 2002
RTÉ Living Music Festival, 26th October The Theatre, The HelixCrash EnsembleCond. Fergus SheilBerio — Sequenza III (voice) (1966)Andriessen — Dubbelspoor (1994)Berio — Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958)McKay — Ice Etchings (2002)Berio...
1 November 2002
Gerald BarryThe Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant(Friday 27 September 2002, world premiere, RTÉ Music Commission)National Symphony OrchestraGerard Markson, conductorOrla Boylan, sopranoMary Plazas, sopranoOn Friday 27th September the National Symphony...
1 September 2002
Ronan Guilfoyle’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Conor Linehan (piano) and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Laurent Wagner, conductor) on 16 August 2002. On Friday 16th August, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra played the world premier of Ronan...
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