amplify #48 - composers David Coonan, Finola Merivale and Centre Culturel Irlandais director Nora Hickey M'Sichili on the centre's composer residency in Paris

CMC's podcast amplify returns with a special episode from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Jonathan Grimes talks to the current composer resident David Coonan, and CCI director Nora Hickey M'Sichili on the annual residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris for CMC represented composers. Evonne Ferguson talks to the 2020 composer resident recipient Finola Merivale.

Show notes

• David Coonan
  • Residency annoucement
• Centre Culturel Irlandais
• Finola Merivale
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Residency annoucement
• 2022 composer residency annoucement

Music

David Coonan

• Verballing (Irish National Opera)
• Vain Prayer (BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre-André Valade)
• Requiescat (Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London, Colm Carey)
• Butterfly Songlines (ConTempo Quartet)

Nora Hickey M'Sichili - Centre Culturel Irlandais

• Greg Caffrey - Garden Of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
• Michael Gallen - Barricades (from Elsewhere)

Finola Merivale

• The Language of Mountains is Rain (Adrianne Pope (vn), Min Park (vn), Gabriel Taubman (va), Doublas Machiz (vc))
• des os (Catherine Sikora)
• Do You Hear Me Now? (Desdemona Ensemble)