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.

(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...

Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 25-27 May 2005For three days in May, people were queuing to go to bed with Jennifer Walshe.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Are there any objective standards by we can judge music or is it all a matter of individual taste?

Ronan Guilfoyle’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Conor Linehan (piano) and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Laurent Wagner, conductor) on 16 August 2002.

Composer’s Choice: Jennifer Walshe', National Concert Hall, Dublin, 27 March 2002One of the concerts during Composer’s Choice week at the National Concert Hall was that selected by Jennifer Walshe.

In the light of a recent weekend of music from the 2nd Viennese School, Conor Kostick looks at the ideas on music of philosopher Theodor Adorno.

Horizons – featuring the music of John Buckley, Henri Dutilleux and György LigetiNational Concert Hall, Dublin, 29 January 2002, with the National Symphony Orcestra (Conductor: Colman Pearce) and soloist Peter Sweeney (organ)A new series of

Project Arts Centre, Dublin20th December 2001The last concert given by Crash Ensemble as part of their residency at Project Arts Centre took place on Thursday 20th December.

Corcoran, Ligeti, Leyendecker, and Hamel – Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, 14 October 2001The ‘Sundays at noon’ concert series at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art provide a rare and very welcome opportunity to hear contemp