A short video featuring highlights from the Cashell Trio's performance at the Contemporary Music Centre's new music Salon series in the Goethe Institut, Dublin on 19 November 2009.
Presented by Bernard Clarke of RTÉ lyric fm, this lively introduction to CMC's latest CD release, Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Five includes interviews and audio clips with some of the composers featured on the CD.
Does the media under-represent Irish composers? Is new music too difficult, too abstract for the media and their audiences? These and other questions were explored at a seminar held at the Contemporary Music Centre on 28 January. John McLachlan, a composer and executive director of the Association of Irish Composers, reports.
Michael Dungan previews the forthcoming RTÉ Living Music Festival 2004 which features contemporary French music as well as a number of Irish premieres.
Raymond Deane talks to Michael Dungan about the ideas behind his chamber work, Seachanges (with Danse Macabre), and his development as a composer. This article is a transcript of a video interview and also includes accompanying video excerpts.