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Please note: the Young Composers' Collective concert (Ioana Petcu-Colan, violin; David Flynn, guitar) advertised as 31 January in the current issue of JMI has been postponed until further notice. Visit www.ycc.ie
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In the latest issue:
- Bernard Clarke on Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who visits Ireland in February
- Una Hunt looks at the life and work of Thomas Moore ahead of this year's commemorative events.
- Ciaran Carson writes in praise of the ceili band.
- Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill reads a book of essays in honour of Tom Munnelly.
- Breandán Ó hEaghra takes lessons with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
- Bob Gilmore interviews Michael Alcorn, Director of the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Queen’s University.
- John McLachlan reports back from the ISCM World Music Days in Hong Kong.
- CD Reviews: Roger Doyle / Lorcán Mac Mathúna / Dorothy Murphy / Jane O'Leary / Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington / Dervish / Zoid
- Live Reviews: Marie Keyrouz and her Vocal Ensemble of Peace / Eliza Carthy / Cork Jazz Festival / DEAF / Remembering Ligeti Festival / The Necks / Paul G. Smyth / Fred Hersch Trio / ConTempo String Quartet / RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet / Rolf Hind (piano) & David Alberman (violin)
- Plus images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive, a two-month guide to concerts and festivals, and much more...
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29.1.08 RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet & Emer McDonagh
(flute), Mozart, Ravel,
Boccherini, J.S. Bach, Fauré, St. Peter's Church, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
8:00pm.
29.1.08 Music for Museums: Ailish Tynan (soprano), Hugh Tinney (piano), National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square
West, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
30.1.08 Michael McHale (piano), Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt, National Concert
Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
30.1.08 The Imposter, or Tartuffe in
Ulster, Portrush Town
Hall, Portrush, Co. Antrim, 8:00pm. (www.livemusicnow.org)
30.1.08 The Imposter, or Tartuffe in
Ulster, Linen Hall
Library, 17 Donegal Square North, Belfast, Co. Antrim, 7:30pm. (www.livemusicnow.org)
31.1.08 RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet & Emer McDonagh
(flute), Mozart, Ravel,
Boccherini, J.S. Bach, Fauré, Aula Maxima, UCC, Cork, Co. Cork,
8:00pm.
1.2.08 RTÉ
NSO, Henri Sigfrifsson (piano),
Giordani Bellincampi (cond.), Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, National Concert
Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
1.2.08 RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet & Emer McDonagh
(flute), Mozart, Ravel,
Boccherini, J.S. Bach, Fauré, Tuar Ard Arts Centre, Moate, Co. Westmeath,
8:30pm.
1.2.08 Rush
Hour Recital: Students of the RIAM, Katherine Brennan Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 36-38
Westland Row, Dublin 2, 6:00pm.
2.2.08 RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet & Emer McDonagh
(flute), Mozart, Ravel,
Boccherini, J.S. Bach, Fauré, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Co. Tyrone,
8:00pm.
3.2.08 RTÉ
Vanbrugh Quartet & Emer McDonagh (flute), Mozart, Ravel, Boccherini, J.S. Bach, Fauré,
National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West, Dublin 2, 3:15pm.
5.2.08
Ensemble
Avalon, Glór Centre,
Ennis, Co. Clare, 8:00pm. (www.musicnetwork.ie)
6.2.08 Ensemble Avalon, Tech Amergín, Waterville, Co. Kerry, 8:30pm. (www.musicnetwork.ie)
7.2.08 Ensemble Avalon, Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of
Music, Union Quay, Co. Cork, 8:00pm. (www.musicnetwork.ie)
7.2.08 The Absolute Music Ensemble: David O’Doherty
(violin),
John Lynch (viola),
Moya O’Grady (cello),
Marie Comiskey (flute),
Geraldine O’Doherty (harp), Damase, Ravel, Debussy, Victory, Massenet,
Ropartz, National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West, Dublin 2,
6:30pm.
8.2.08 ConTempo String Quartet, Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Bhuirne, Co. Chorcaí, 8:30pm.
9.2.08
Ensemble
Avalon, Mermaid Arts
Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 8:00pm. (www.musicnetwork.ie)
9.2.08 Elizabeth Cooney (violin)
& Matthew Schellhorn (piano), Mozart, Schnittke, MacMillan, Szymanowski,
Prokofiev, Stravinsky, St. Brendan's Church, Bantry, Co. Cork,
8:00pm.
10.2.08 Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Andras Schiff
(director,
piano),
Mendelssohn, Schumann, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2,
8:00pm.
29.1.08 Horizons 2008 - Jane O'leary: RTÉ NSO,
Robert Houlihan (cond.), Tower, O'Leary, Tann, National Concert Hall,
Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 1:00pm. (www.rte.ie/music)
30.1.08 Spatial Music Collective: New Dublin Voices, Bernie Sherlock
(cond.), Bates, Nangle, Buckley,
Jacobson, Fleming, Grant, McDonnell, The Chapel, Trinity College, Dublin 2,
8:00pm. (www.spatialmc.net)
30.1.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Nyman, Dennehy, Ravel,
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Co. Cork, 1:00pm.
(www.fideliotrio.com)
31.1.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Nyman, Ravel,
Performing Arts Centre, Lower Ground Floor, Foundation Building, University of
Limerick, Limerick, Co. Limerick, 1:15pm. (www.fideliotrio.com)
1.2.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
launch of Bulb,
Bennett, Gribbin, Dennehy,
Volans, Contemporary
Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, 6:00pm. (www.fideliotrio.com)
2.2.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Nyman, Pärt, Volans, Ravel, Airfield House, Upper Kilmacud Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14, 8:00pm.
(www.fideliotrio.com)
3.2.08 Sundays at Noon: Amstel Saxophone
Quartet, Sweelinck,
Glazunow, Wilson, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin 1,
12:00pm.
4.2.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan (violin), Robin Michael (cello), Mary Dullea (piano), Sweeney, Gribbin,
Ravel, Dundalk IT,
Dundalk, Co. Louth, 1:00pm. (www.fideliotrio.com)
4.2.08 - 10.2.08 Waterford New Music Week, Waterford (Various venues), Waterford, Co.
Waterford. (www.waterfordnewmusicweek.com)
5.2.08 Music of Life and Soul: Vincent Kennedy & Rathfarnham Concert
Band, National Concert
Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
5.2.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Boulez, Messiaen, Xenakis, Benjamin, Garter Lane Theatre, O'Connell Street, Waterford, Co. Waterford,
1:00pm. (www.fideliotrio.com)
5.2.08 Horizons 2008 - Roger Doyle: RTÉ NSO, Gavin
Moloney (cond.), Doyle, Gardner, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort
Terrace, Dublin 2, 1:00pm.
6.2.08 Amstel Saxophone Quartet, Wilson, Glazunov, Vrolijk & Sweelinck,
Aula Maxima (Galway), NUI Galway, Co. Galway, 8:00pm. (www.musicforgalway.ie)
7.2.08 Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan
(violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Sweeney, Bennett, Led Zeppelin, Nyman, Volans, Garter Lane Theatre, O'Connell Street,
Waterford, Co. Waterford, 1:00pm.
8.2.08 RTÉ NSO, Arabella Steinbacher
(violin),
Giordano Bellincampi (cond.), Guilfoyle, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, National
Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
8.2.08
Fidelio Trio: Darragh
Morgan (violin),
Robin Michael (cello),
Mary Dullea (piano),
Dennehy, Bennett, Nyman, Pärt, Michael, Led Zepplin, Lennon/McCartney, Mitchell,
Cocteau Twins, The
Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, 8:00pm. (www.fideliotrio.com)
9.2.08 Montana Strange: Paul Dunmall
(saxophone), Brian Irvine & Robert Ziegler (conductors), Whitla Hall, College
Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim, 7:45pm.
10.2.08 Concorde, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin
1, 12:00pm.
3.2.08 Pharoah Sanders Quartet, Tripod, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, 7:30pm.
(www.note.ie)
3.2.08 Pendulum: Savage Monkey, JJ Smyth's, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, 9:00pm.
5.2.08
Organics & Richie
Buckley, Riverbank
Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, 8:00pm.
10.2.08
Pendulum:
Protea, JJ Smyth's, 12
Aungier Street, Dublin 2, 9:00pm.
31.1.08 - 2.2.08
Thollem McDonas:
Improvisation Workshop, The Shed, 17/21 Foley Street, Dublin 1. (www.thollem.com)
29.1.08 Pathway to the Well: John Carty
(fiddle),
Matt Molloy (flute)
& Arty McGlynn (guitar), Spell's Bar, Ballaghaderreen, Co.
Roscommon.
30.1.08 - 31.1.08 Pathway to the Well: John Carty (fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) & Arty McGlynn (guitar), The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co.
Leitrim.
1.2.08 The
Long Note: Tony McMahon (accordion) & friends, Ruaille Buaille, South King Street, Dublin 2, 9:00pm. (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"liamog62_at_mac_dot_com" claiming to be liamog62_at_mac_dot_com)
5.2.08 Pathway to the Well: John Carty (fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) & Arty McGlynn (guitar), Dolans Warehouse, Dock Road, Limerick, Co.
Limerick.
6.2.08 Finbar Furey & Friends, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace,
Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
2.2.08 - 3.2.08
Kodo
Drummers, National
Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 8:00pm.
8.2.08
Eduardo Niebla
(guitar), Draíocht Arts Centre,
Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, 8:15pm.
9.2.08 Lunfardia, Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co.
Wicklow, 8:30pm.
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