Digital Concert Planner: 23–29 November 2020

Darragh Morgan to Perform Programme of Iranian Works at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Diatribe Records Aiming for Grammy Nominations

Bringing Out the Stillness

James Camien McGuiggan holds a PhD in the philosophy of art from the University of Southampton. Prior to this, he studied music in Maynooth University. He is currently an independent scholar, with interests in the philosophy of music and R. G. Collingwood.

New Music Up a Notch

Adrian Smith is Lecturer in Musicology at TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama.

‘People want to break down boundaries’: An interview with Nick Roth and Matthew Jacobson of Diatribe Records

Miracle in Drumcondra

Adrian Smith is Lecturer in Musicology at TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama.

Hard to Reconcile

Brendan Finan is a teacher and writer living in Meath. He writes a blog at www.brendanfinan.net.

New Releases: Contemporary Music (July 2018)

Taking on the Piano Trio

Simon Mawhinney

Michael Quinn is a freelance music and theatre journalist based in Co. Down.

Radar

All Collisions End in Static: the Music of Linda Buckley

Bob Gilmore (1961–2015) was a musicologist, educator and keyboard player. Born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, he studied at York University, Queen's University Belfast, and at the University of California. His books include Harry Partch: a biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and other writings on music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP. He wrote extensively on the American experimental tradition, microtonal music and spectral music, including the work of such figures as James Tenney, Horațiu Rădulescu, Claude Vivier, and Frank Denyer. Bob Gilmore taught at Queens University, Belfast, Dartington College of Arts, Brunel University in London, and was a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent. He was the founder, director and keyboard player of Trio Scordatura, an Amsterdam-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of microtonal music, and for the year 2014 was the Editor of Tempo, a quarterly journal of new music. His biography of French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was published by University of Rochester Press in June 2014. Between 2005 and 2012, Bob Gilmore published several articles in The Journal of Music.

Little Bells make Living Music

John McLachlan is a composer and member of Aosdána. www.johnmclachlan.org

Donnacha Dennehy – Elastic Harmonic

Michael Quinn is a freelance music and theatre journalist based in Co. Down.

Live Reviews: Horizons: Donnacha Dennehy / Strange Folk!: Crash Ensemble and Iarla Ó Lionáird

Barra Ó Séaghdha is a writer on cultural politics, literature and music.

Live Reviews: Composers' Choice – Siobhán Cleary

Conor Kostick is a writer and journalist. He is the author of Revolution in Ireland (1996) and, with Lorcan Collins, The Easter Rising (2000).