A second volume of Charlie Lennon’s compositions, including their piano accompaniment, and a CD of the music performed by Lennon himself, has been published.

Interested composers must be based in Ireland, and submit a proposed work for the programme's Ensemble in Residence, the ConTempo Quartet.

The Derry-based art centre have issued a call for original music for two Theatre of Witness plays in 2012 and 2013.

Taking Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ chorale prelude, ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ as its starting point, 'I Call to You' features new arrangements of the prelude by Jonathan Nangle, Simon O’Connor and Garrett Sholdice, an

Commissioned to compose a work in response to 9/11, John Adams confronted the question: can modern classical music still be the transcendental force we need it to be? by Barra Ó Séaghdha

Being cut off is a state of mind, writes composer John McLachlan

"If you don’t have a friend who is an artist, you’re wasting your time." – Morton Feldman was closely associated with a number of visual artists, particularly those of the New York School.

"Our ahistorical postmodern age, with its mistrust of continuities and grand narratives, has paradoxically allowed the reinsertion of Gesualdo into musical history." A new book on the composer shows that he was centuries ahead of

The rise and fall of the Irish new music scene.

The challenges facing the funding of the arts go beyond the current economic situation.

Promoters of art mislead audiences by suggesting that there is meaning where there is none. Sometimes you just have to trust the artist, writes John McLachlan