Forum for Music in Ireland

Thursday 13 May 1.10- 2.00pm
Elizabeth Cooney & Redmond O’Toole  duo (violin and guitar)   Cooney & O'Toole
Crawford Gallery, Cork
Bach: Adagio from Sonata No.1 for solo violin in G minor, BWV 1001
Giuliani: Duo Concertante for violin and guitar, Op. 85
Paganini: Sonata No.1 in a major, Op.3
De Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
Paganini: La Campanella
Tickets €10  086 7397722

Thursday 13 May 8.00pm
Sylvia O'Brien, soprano and Hanna Shybayeva, piano 
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co.Meath
"The Seven Deadly Sins of Opera"
Solstice details on http://www.solsticeartscentre.com/events/?p=991
 

Music & Madness in Galway

Dance Mania, Addiction, Ecstasy, Love…

Galway Early Music is pleased to announce its 15^th Festival of Early Music, taking place in the heart of medieval Galway on 28-30 of May 2010.

The theme of this year’s festival is Music and Madness and we promise our guests a healthy dose of foolishness and absurdity in all the events of our festival. The themes of ecstasy, dance mania, addiction, and love dominate in this year’s edition of the festival. The festival’s programme ranges from the dance epidemics of the Middle Ages, where entire communities of people would join hands, dance, leap, scream and shake for hours, to the madness of love, so beautifully expressed in medieval & renaissance vocal music, to the madness of the gambler who plays to his ruin, and finally to the ecstatic chant music of religious visionaries and mystics such as Hildegard von Bingen. In addition, a madman that can fly and horns that cure a wounded warrior feature in the popular Saturday free events that run throughout the Latin Quarter of the city.

For full programme and on-line booking please visit our website:

www.galwayearlymusic.com

 ‘THE FUTURE OF MUSIC in the Digital World’
to be explored at international conference in Dublin Castle.
 
Arts Minister Mary Hanafin to open Contemporary Music Centre’s conference for the music industry on Friday, 11 June 2010.
 
With access to music now just a click away for most of us, very few of the tried and tested ways of accessing music remain unchanged. Can we, or should we, attempt to predict the future? Have we even begun to deal with the present yet?
 
This major conference brings together high-level international speakers to explore and debate issues around the meaning of digital culture: how it impacts on the creator and the performer; and the implications for copyright in a world which has come to expect music to be free.
 
Who should attend?
Creative artists and organisations engaged in any area of composition, performance, publishing or distribution across all forms of music in Ireland are invited to join the debate in the Coach House, Dublin Castle, on 11 June.

Registration (including buffet lunch, refreshments and wine reception) is €50 (concessions €35).
Early bird discount of 10% if you book and pay by close of business on 7 May.
A limited number of bursaries are available.

PLEASE SEE BROCHURE ATTACHED FOR ALL THE DETAILS AND A REGISTRATION FORM.
Further information at www.cmc.ie/future-of-music

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Eve O'Kelly, Director, Contemporary Music Centre

Elizabeth Cooney (violin) will perform on The View on Tuesday 23 February 11.30pm to promote a series of performances in March.

One of Ireland's most outstanding performers, Cooney joins with UCD Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ciaran Crilly for Philip Glass' iconic concerto on Thursday 4th March in the NCH, directly after our own talking shop (see next posting for Forum attendee special offers)

Elizabeth’s Irish performances in March include:

Thursday 4 March 8.00pm
National Concert Hall  www.nch.ie
Philip Glass concerto with UCD Symphony Orchestra/Ciarán Crilly conductor
 
Friday  5 March 8.00pm
Fota House, Cork  (Phone 0214815543) with Elisaveta Blumina, piano
 
Saturday 6 March 8.00pm
Gala Concert for Cork Alzheimer's Society, Aula Maxima, UCC
 
Saturday 13 March 8.00pm
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co.Meath www.solsticeartscentre.com
with Elisaveta Blumina, piano

Forum for Music in Ireland ‘Talking shop’

Two weeks to go…………

Thursday March 4^th 2010

Carolan Room, National Concert Hall

6pm to 8.30pm

(tea/coffee available from 5.30pm and at close of business)

We are delighted to announce our panel of experts, drawn from a variety of musical genres and areas of the profession:

John Wallace, Chair, founder of the Wallace Collection and Principal of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Conor Byrne, highly accomplished flute player with several award winning documentaries under his belt who runs the hugely popular County Sessions, currently pulling in big crowds in the Button Factory in Temple Bar. 

Iarlaith Carter, senior artist manager, Harrison Parrott Music Management

Julie Feeney, Choice Music Prize winning composer-performer

Gerry Godley, Improvised Music Company and National Campaign for the Arts

Anthony De Ritis, Chair of Music, Northeastern University, Boston, and composer of ‘Devolution’ for symphony orchestra and DJ.

What is our talking shop about?

On March 4^th 2010, the National Concert Hall hosts the first Forum for Music in Ireland ‘Talking Shop’, a gathering designed to enable networking and stimulate discussion about current issues in music led by an Irish and international panel that will deal with questions raised by Forum members in advance and asked from the floor.

For this first talking shop, we have taken the issue closest to Forum members’ hearts- the challenges of developing a sustainable career as a musician. Our panel will help us look afresh at the challenges of audience development, availability of work opportunities, problems with working conditions for musicians and more.

We have included two brief mid-session presentations showcasing some new initiatives around the country:

Sarah Franklyn of the Music and Arts Guild of Ireland (MAGI), an organisation formed with the objective of finding a tangible way to transform the working conditions for artist practitioners in Ireland by offering a holistic approach that brings together seemingly unrelated sectors through the arts to create new economic opportunities and generate a sustainable livelihood for artists.

Jessica Fuller of Platform Ireland Beta, a new online channel which showcases the best of Irish arts and culture for free. Currently www.platformireland.ie features performances from the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Donnacha Dennehy, Druid Theatre Company, the Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Poetry Ireland and plenty of short films and introductions to some of Irelands leading culture and entertainment organisations.

We want YOUR questions!

We would like to thank those who have submitted questions already. If you would like to ask a question, we ask you to e mail dkkelleherdeborah@gmail.com  by Thursday 25^th February and we will try to get to all submitted questions in the session. Questions will be chosen on a ‘first come/first served’ basis.

Finish your night off with some music…………

The UCD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is performing ‘AMERICANA’, a concert that features music from Broadway, the ballet and the big screen with soloist Elizabeth Cooney right in the National Concert Hall on the night of our Talking Shop. Attendees have generously been offered a reduced price of €12 per ticket (normal price €18) which can be accessed by using the online booking promotion code UCD1.

See you there!