The Atlantic Music Festival Fellowship provides complete financial coverage of tuition, housing, and meals during the four weeks of residency.

The line-up of the ‘sonic pop-up’ afterwards is Donal Lunny, Donal Dineen, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (who is also giving a talk), Kate Ellis, Laura Sheeran, Linda Buckley and Seán Mac Erlaine.

Percussionist-composer Éamonn Cagney's debut CD, Convergence, features collaborators such as Niwel Tsumbu, Val Divan, Ciara O’Driscoll, Martin Tourish and Catriona O’Hora.

The recipients of the RTÉ Lyric FM and Irish Music Rights Organisation 'Mentored Composition Bursary' for 2012 have been announced as Seán Clancy and Enda Bates.

The new MA critically examines research and practice in music education, interrogating assumptions, values and practices underpinning research and practice in music education and explores areas such as sociology, philosophy and psychology.

Submitted works should be suitable for performance by the Timi Modern Music ensemble (erhu, pipa, guzheng, dizi (also playing xiao), two violins, saxophone, traditional Irish trio (accordion, Irish pipe, fiddle), with or without electronics

The Irish charity Suas Educational Development is selling a CD of African folk songs recorded by an award-winning primary school choir in Nairobi, Kenya as part of the school's fund raising this Christmas.

Northern Irish composer Ed Bennett has won a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Trust Prize in Performing and Visual Arts. Bennett's prize is worth £70,000.

The album features recordings of singers including Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin, Seán Ó Liatháin, Máire Ní Cheocháin and Seán Ó Síocháin, and a live version of Seán Ó Riada playing ‘Aisling Gheal’.

The deadline for the Arts Council's music and traditional arts bursary awards — 19 January 2012 — is fast approaching. The maximum bursary award available is €15,000 per year.

The Irish Composers’ Collective stages its next concert on 13 December. The concert features the Rhombus Ensemble

Gloria is a Christmas-themed overview of the development of religious music from Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) to Arvo Pärt (b.

The Seán Ó Riada Competition, part of the Cork International Choral Festival, invites submissions of new compositions by Irish composers.

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin has just released a CD called Songs of the Scribe, arising from her work at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, and featuring ten new songs derived from ancient writings.

DJ Media Stream is an entertainment network that will allow users to stream and download media, ranging from music, movies and books, to games and news apps to any connected device, it is set to launch in early 2012.

Dublin’s Contemporary Music Centre will host the screening of two short films with the involvement of Irish composers Stephen Gardner and Rhona Clarke, on 15 November between 6pm and 7pm.

The Irish Chamber Orchestra will perform two seasonally-themed concerts this Christmas, the first on 15 December at the University Concert Hall, Limerick, and the second on 17 December at the RDS Concert Hall, Dublin.

Ahead of a Liffey Banks Sessions gig at the Grand Social, Dublin, The Journal of Music spoke to Caoimhín Vallely about the tour with Christy Leahy, Ger Wolfe and Séamie O’Dowd.

On Friday, 11 November piper Ronan Browne, contemporary dancer Cindy Cummings, singer Seán Tyrrell, sean-nós singer Róisín Elsafty and bodhrán player Tommy Hayes will perform together in the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway.

The maximum available grant available in 2012/2013 is 100,000 euro or 60% of eligible costs, and the support can be granted for one edition of the festival. Only festivals having held at least five previous editions are eligible.

Colour Out of Space, a weekend-long festival of experimental music and film which takes place across a number of venues in Brighton, returns for its fifth edition this weekend, 11 to 13 November.

Holland is a renowned jazz bass player, having played in Miles Davis’ ‘third great quintet’ alongside Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and leading his own formidable band in recent years.

The label’s focus will be on an ‘eclectic selection’ of underground music, which, if the current release schedule is anything to go by, will include everything from sound art, to doom metal, to organ improvisations.

The third in the Anon is Anall series will be exhibited in the Rowan Tree during the forthcoming Ennis Trad Festival running from 10 to 14 November, and a recap on the entire series is being organised for next year’s Festival, which will in

Although centered in Dublin, the Music Educators’ Orchestra has deliberately scheduled its rehearsals to take place just one Sunday afternoon each month in order to accommodate teachers and artists from all over the country.

Flamencología is a Compañía Felipe de Algeciras production paying homage to the roots of flamenco.

The workshop and seminar are free and are open to students, teachers, singers, conductors and anyone interested in the field of choral music.

The inaugral Northern Ireland Music Awards (NIMAs) will take place on 2 November, at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

The second part of Oireachtas na Gaeilge, the main Irish-language festival of the year, starts this week in Killarney.

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a leading British new music ensemble, run a year-long annual apprenticeship scheme for composers early in their career.

OKO, Thought-Fox, Umbra and Zoiband will each perform a stylistically diverse set in the latest instalment of Whirligig, a series of concerts that has thus far presented a mixture of acoustic improvisation and traditional jazz.

Berlin-based soprano Doerthe Maria Sandmann will perform at the Cube theatre in the National University of Ireland, Galway, on 3 November. The concert is part of the Arts in Action initiative.

The exhibition continues until 8 December and features new work by artists Michelle Browne, Cliona Harmey, Saoirse Higgins and Bea McMahon in collaboration with Shimmer Research, developers of wearable sensors with applications to kinematic

Traditional music concerts in November include Dublin's Liffy Banks Sessions featuring, among others, Maighréad and Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill, and the Junctions series in Cork with Jean-Michel Veillon, Neil Yates, Tyler Duncan, Mel Mercier,

The Music Recording Scheme was set up to provide support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through awarding funding for music recording.

A group calling itself ‘the initiative’ have issued an open invitation to musicians and others to collaborate in a performance of James Tenney’s indeterminate composition In a large, open space, on Saturday, 29 October, in Berlin in front o

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s Mentoring Scheme is designed to offer advanced third level instrumental students the chance to audition, rehearse and perform with the orchestra and also with prominent conductors and soloists.

Film-maker Myles O’Reilly, was commissioned by the Linenhall Arts Centre to document the work of violin-maker Graham Wright, bow-maker Gary Leahy, mandolin- and guitar-maker Brian Lofthouse, and uilleann pipes-maker John Butler.

Thursday, 3 November will see Redneck Manifesto and Somadrone perform at the Dublin venue.

The performers are Frankie Gavin & Dé Dannan; the Cunningham Family dancers; All Ireland Talent Show winners, the Mulkerrin brothers; Galway bands Dalta and Cogar; local band the Jacks; and trio Paudie Walsh, Mike McGrath and Sean Flana

Brass players of all standards are encouraged to take part. Gary Curtin will tutor musicians on breathing, teamwork and technique. Workshops are free, but advance registration is necessary in order to take part.

Benjamin Dwyer's new multimedia piece Umbilical will premiere on 4 November, and Dwyer will give a lecture at the Royal Irish Academy on 26 October ahead of the premiere.

The Contemporary Music Centre and the Royal Irish Academy of Music are presenting a series of four concerts in Dublin City libraries, beginning today (24 October) and running until 2 November, to celebrate Dublin's UNESCO City of Liter

New recordings are out from Christy Moore, Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, John Doyle and Kavan Donohoe, and a new benefit CD features Kíla, Cormac Breathnach and Damien Dempsey.

The band has been performing since 1988, and has since won five Grammy Awards in a range of categories although their music primarily borrows from bluegrass, jazz and electric fusion.

The Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama and RTÉ Performing Groups will host an afternoon of music and presentations on 12 November in celebration of the centenary of the year of birth of

Two ‘artists in residence’ are sought for the period February to May 2012.

The launch will take place in the Button Factory, Temple Bar on 24 November, and will be hosted by actor and Leitrim resident Adrian Dunbar, who features on the CD.

The Irish Chamber Orchestra’s concert at the University Concert Hall, Limerick, on 20 October was broadcast live in High Definition on Platform Ireland’s website, as well as on four large digital screens to audiences in Leitrim, Kerry, Wate

Carpio tells The Journal of Music how his latest project came about, quoting Morton Feldman as influencing the compositional mentality of this new band.

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has been named as the new music director of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan.

ReDiviDer represented Ireland earlier this year with an energetic performance at the 12 Points! festival in Dublin earlier this year, a yearly showcase of young European bands, facilitated by the IMC.

Muiris Ó Rócháin, co-founder and Director of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, passed away on Monday at the age of 67.

The Irish Composers' Collective will host the latest edition of its monthly concert series at the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall on 21 October, at 8.30 pm, featuring guitarist John O'Shea.

The Irish Arts Council has selected records from a large archive of documentation, which are presented online as digital copies of letters, minutes and photographs.

The Arts Council and RTÉ launched a new CD of orchestral works by Irish composer and Aosdána member John Kinsella on 11 October as part of the Composers of Ireland series on the RTÉ Lyric FM label.

Breandán Ó hEaghra and Charlie Lennon are the performers for the opening night of the club this Friday, with Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin as MC.

There are free workshops on offer from performing festival artists as part of the Cork Jazz Camp, in Cork School of Music, beginning on 27 October.

The Engine Room Festival is a one-off event celebrating the life, work and legacy of British composer Cornelius Cardew. It will run from 23 November to 11 December at Morley College and the Southbank Centre in London.

The eighth annual South County Dublin Des Carty Sessions, presented by Alternative Entertainments, begins on Saturday week, 22 October, and features appearances from folk favourites, Jim Rooney and Martin Carthy.

The conference fee is 99 euro for the weekend, which includes tea/coffee throughout the weekend, lunch on Saturday 22 October, a conference banquet that night, attendance to all workshops and presentations and also the chance to engage in o

Violinist Catherine Leonard and pianist Hugh Tinney are embarking on a mini-tour of Ireland in late-October, with their four-concert jaunt taking in Westport, Clonmel, Limerick and Bantry.

The scheme is designed to address the training requirements of choral singers outlined in the policy document, Raising Your Voice, published by the Arts Council in 2009 after consultation with the choral sector.

Sacred harp singing developed in the southern region of the United States in the nineteenth century, as a form of unaccompanied sacred choral music to be sung by congregations with little or no specialist musical training.

A new international competition for digital artists, across all fields and including musicians, Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN, is inviting applications to win a residency at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva.

From Galway, the members of We Banjo 3 are Enda Scahill, Martin Howley and David Howley.

SoundSet, an ensemble of choir and strings founded in 2010 by composers Laura Kilty and Emma O’Halloran to perform everything from contemporary composition to early music, will premiere two new Irish works for strings, written by O’Halloran

The festival offers a weekend of improvised and new music this year, and features two Berlin-based musicians, trumpeter Tom Arthurs and Roy Carroll on computer, as well as Irish-based members from the roster of the Bottlenote Collective.

A round-up of some upcoming concerts and festivals, including Scoil Cheoil na Botha, Carlow Folk Club, Imagine Trad Festival, Trí60 and the Liffey Banks Sessions.

Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Fabulous Beast dance theatre company and Liam Ó Maonlaí will bring their show Rian to Sadler’s Wells in London on 24 and 25 October, fresh from a run at the Gaiety Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

The Improvised Music Company is hosting the third in the series of Trí60 concerts on 15 October. And later in the month, Palooka, a multi-national ‘improvising funk/pop-band’ will be performing as part of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

Headline names include Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Alec Finn, Noel Hill, Joe Burke, Frankie Gavin, Iarla Ó Lionáird, John Spillane, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.

Ergodos Musicians tour a new production this month based on the music of the twelfth century French composer Léonin, including works by Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Linda Buckley.

The compositional process will involve working with the 2011/12 Composer-in-Residence Linda Buckley in both the creation of the work, the layout and delivery of the scores and a workshop and recording of the new work with the RTÉ National S

Speaking to The Journal of Music, the organiser Caoimhín Vallely explained that the series tries to provide a platform for 'people who have been pushing the boat out a bit' but who don't always get a chance to display that in

Dublin Sound Lab, Michael Quinn and Fergal Dowling’s specialist electroacoustic and computer music performance group, will host two days of interactive electronic music at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, on 21 and 22 October.

Music Network presents a range of concerts across the country over the following weeks, including tours from the successful applicants of the yearly Performance and Touring Award.

Among many performances at the Return to Camden Town Festival, Noel Hill, Tony Linnane and Alec Finn are heading over to give fans in the UK a chance to relive some of the material from their celebrated 1979 recording.

Ahead of the Britten centenary in 2013, the Britten-Pears Foundation is seeking to appoint a paid research intern on a three month contract.

Both the Irish-run 12 Points! festival and the Bucharest International Jazz Competition are currently seeking entries from young jazz artists and ensembles.

Irish-based international arts collective Grúpat are being profiled alongside durational and silent music collective Wandelweiser at this year’s Cut and Splice festival of experimental music and sound art, which will take place on 3—6 Novem

The Arts Council's Director of Operations, Aidan Burke, said that feedback from users to the online services has been 'overwhelmingly positive', with clients finding the site 'extremely user friendly'.

RTÉ’s second annual Big Music Week runs next week from Monday, 10 October, to Sunday, 16 October. A selection of live and recorded music is planned across RTÉ Radio, Television, RTÉ Performing Groups and online.

Deceased Bothy Band member, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill is the subject of a new documentary to be shown on TG4 on 12 October, featuring reminiscences from his sisters Maighréad and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, as well as the likes of Paddy Glackin, Matt M

Nest, a multimedia arts project culminating in a three day musical and theatrical presentation at T13 in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast on 20—22 July 2011, was launched last week by the Artistic Directors of the project, Brian Irvine and Jo

Recorded earlier this year, Tsumbu has since been busy performing with composer Roger Doyle, Liam O'Maonlaí, in the Cosmopolitan Guitar Quartet, in Donal Dineen's Parish and as part of the Reich Effect festival in Cork.

The third London International Festival of Exploratory Music will run from 29 October to 7 November this year, and is branching out from its previous setting, King's Place, adding to this venue four more, including Café Oto and the Los

Funding can be used towards vocal and instrumental tuition costs, equipment costs, music libraries, administration costs and also new strands of tuition in an existing school or community group.

Joanie Madden's Cherish the Ladies finish up the Irish leg of their extensive twenty-fifth anniversary tour before heading for the United States.

The festival runs from 14–30 October this year featuring a wide array of music taken from across the spectrum of classical, jazz, popular and folk.

Typically a monthly event, the extra date is courtesy of the Goethe Institute and of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. The concerts will feature music by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Lachenmann, Mozart and Poulenc, among others.

A new CD by Orla Harrington (fiddle), Andrew MacNamara (button accordion) and Jim Higgins (percussion and piano), revives tunes found recorded on a reel-to-reel tape in Cratloe, County Clare.

New Dublin Voices, an amateur chamber choir from Dublin under the direction of Bernie Sherlock, has swept the board at the biennial International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen in Belgium.

Éimear O'Connor, Mark O'Regan and Ciarán Walsh have been appointed to the Irish Arts Council, while Peter Browne, Randall Shannon and Rachel Holstead have been reappointed to arts adviser positions.

The only concert of the weekend takes place on Sunday, 2 October in Arus Éamon Mac Suibhne (Halla na Laoch), and will feature Ceoltóirí Chualann, Cór Chúil Aodha, Cór Ban Chúil Aodha, and other musicians including Steve Cooney.

New recorded works for stringed instruments were commissioned from Dónal Lunny and Leopold Hurt and then used as source material for 'digital recompositions' by David Donohoe and Eamonn Doyle together and by Stephan Mat

There is a distinct sense of experimentation in this year's festival, and in particular a juxtaposition of the acoustic and electronic, courtesy of Dutch-based duo Neophobic and Irish acts Soft Day and Deviant.

The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet are celebrating the music of Irish composers Frederick May and Frank Corcoran this autumn, in addition to touring around the country with a programme featuring May, alongside Mozart and Joseph Haydn.

Culture Ireland will bring the second official Irish delegation to the festival, which is attended by hundreds of concert and festival bookers, labels, managers, producers, publishers and distributors from around the globe.