Podcasts about crash ensemble

On today's episode Danny Carroll meets Kate Ellis, cellist and artistic director of Crash Ensemble and composer Jonathan Nangle to discuss The Blue Haze Of Deep Time, a composition by Jonathan that will be premiered by Crash Ensemble at the New Music Dublin festival, on Sunday 6th April in The National Concert Hall.The work will be released on CD and digital platforms two days prior via Crash Records, and we have a little preview of it in this episode of the podcast.Drawing inspiration from the sea, incorporating field recordings, electronic and acoustic instruments, The Blue Haze Of Deep Time, marks the culmination of Nangle's residency with Crash Ensemble.If you have an interest in contemporary classical and new music, you may wish to explore some of our previous episodes from the Music Current festival 2023 and 2024, including interviews with Izumi Kimura, Lara Gallagher and the Nadar Ensemble to name a few.

A invenção em Morton Feldman01 – Maria Valencia - Neuston02 – Maria Valencia - Variaciones de Parientes03 – Morton Feldman - Chorus & Instruments II04 - Sam Perkin - Children In The Universe- III. Tears Of Pure Intuition com Crash Ensemble & Diamanda La Berge DrammProdução, gravação, edição e locução: marcelo brissacMúsica “Drácula” usada no prefixo e sufixo, autoria de marcelo brissac e livio tragtenberg

Irish-Yoruba sound and visual artist, Doranijoh Sanna, a.k.a. E The Artist, on his new collaboration with contemporary music innovators, Crash Ensemble.

Playlist: Sebastian Adams, Crash Ensemble - trombone, transducer, tam-tamGabriel Dharmoo - Vestiges d'une fableRuth Crawford Seeger, Brandon Patrick George - Diaphonic SuiteKenji Bunch, Clancy Newman, Natalie Zhu - Broken Music for Cello & PianoAnthony Payne, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Half-Heard in the StillnessGreg Caffrey, Ulster Orchestra - Aingeal IIKevin Lau, St. John-Mercer-Park Trio - If Life Were a MirrorDanny Elfman, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - WunderkammerDabrinka Tabakova, Halle Orchestra - Orpheus' Comet

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Rhodri Davies, Sam Amidon and Linda Buckley discuss the roles of tradition and place in music, and what they might think about when performing.Brìghde Chaimbeul is a Gaelic musician, composer and bagpipe player. Her music stems from traditional Gaelic material, particularly sourced from archival recordings, of songs, stories and music from the Highlands and islands of Scotland. It also explores wider musical influences, such as a variety of global piping traditions from eastern Europe, Cape Breton and Ireland. She has collaborated with artists including Ross Ainslie, Gruff Rhys, Martin Green, Carlos Nunez and Allan MacDonald. Last year she released the album Carry Them With Us in collaboration with Colin Stetson, weaving together textural drones, trance atmospheres and instrumental folk traditions.Rhodri Davies is a Welsh musician who plays harp, electric harp and live electronics, as well as building harp installations. He started playing the harp at the age of 7 and is classically trained on the orchestral pedal harp; he also plays harps from a range of different cultures, modifying their sounds with different techniques and pushing the boundaries of how the instrument can sound. He's released seven solo albums and regularly works with groups such as Hen Ogledd, Cranc, the Sealed Knot and Common Objects. Sam Amidon is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Vermont. He plays the fiddle, guitar and banjo, and is a member of the Icelandic music collective/record label Bedroom Community. He has released a string of acclaimed albums, ranging in theme from interpretations of traditional Irish fiddle pieces to old-time melodies and tales from traditional American folk history. His collaborators include classical composer Nico Muhly, experimental composer/producer Ben Frost, composer/violinist Eyvind Kang, guitar legend Bill Frisell and veteran jazz drummer Milford Graves.Linda Buckley is an Irish composer and musician who creates electronic and acoustic music working across many disciplines, most notably film, and drone and dark ambient music. She's worked in many collaborative contexts, including scoring films such as Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson and To The Moon by Tadhg O'Sullivan. Recent collaborators include Liam Byrne and Crash Ensemble, Gudrun Gut and Andrew Zolinsky.

Rachael Lavelle released her long-awaited debut album Big Dreams on November 10. A brilliant collection of 10 tracks, the press release says: Big Dreams is an existential coming-of-age album that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. Inspired by sounds of everyday life and an intriguing obsession with YouTube self-help videos, the album explores romance, directionlessness, ambition and the expectations of the unsatisfied digital native. Recorded in various locations including an artists studio in Lisbon, the album is the result of years of experimentation and destruction. Written and produced by Lavelle, it was created alongside long-time collaborator, multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Ryan Hargadon and engineer and co-producer Alex Borwick. Throughout, the album features the voice of the Luas, Doireann Ní Bhriain, who narrates the inner monologue of the millennial mind; the ever-wondering, ever-doubting, the contradicting and the aspiring. On this episode of the TPOE podcast, Rachael talks us through Big Dreams track by track, as well as her features with Villagers, Crash Ensemble and others, influences, sleep, CMAT, and dreaming. Buy Rachael Lavelle - Big Dreams: https://rachaellavelle.bandcamp.com/album/big-dreams-2 Rachael Lavelle tour dates: November 23: The Black Box, Belfast November 24: Project Arts Centre, Dublin November 30: Mick Lally Theatre, Galway December 1: The Record Room, Limerick December 6: Prims Bookshop, Kinsale December 7: Coughlan's, Cork December 8: Connollys of Leap, Cork December 9: St Michael's Church, Waterville, Kerry

Join Rain on LaunchLeft today as they welcome Oscar-nominated Son Lux to kick off Qasim Naqvi's launch. Tune in for an engaging conversation with Ryan, Ian, Rafiq, and Qasim Naqvi as they discuss their unique experiences and creative processes in music-making. This versatile group excels as a live band, studio recording artists, and composers, embracing various aspects of the art they cherish. As a special treat, you'll have the privilege of hearing Qasim Naqvi's captivating performance of "The Curve" at the end of the episode. -----------------  LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITEhttps://www.launchleft.com  LAUNCHLEFT PATREON https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft  TWITTER https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft  INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/  FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft  --------------------- LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism where famed creatives launch new artists. LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a curated ecosystem that includes a podcast, label and NFT gallery. --------------------- IN THIS EPISODE: [02:23] Ryan tells how he and Rafiq came to collaborate.  [08:25] Ian explains how they became composers for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.  [10:26] Rafiq shares what they have been working on recently.  [12:39] Ryan comments on the reward versus the work and how the work won out.  [17:42] Qasim Naqvi reveals how he met the members of Son Lux, and they all reflect on their times together.  [25:02] Ryan talks about how their music is visual, and Qasim Naquiv discusses the modular synthesis while they land on making music with what they have.  [40:03] Listen to “The Curve” by Qasim Naqvi.    KEY TAKEAWAYS:  The difference between performing on stage and recording in a studio is night-and-day. When you find like-minded artists who appreciate each other's talents, you have a winning combination. Sometimes it’s the accident that makes the music. It’s called working with what you have.   BIOGRAPHIES::  SON LUX BIO: From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring six recordings, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and the triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for an equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux has most recently scored the new Daniels film for A24, Everything Everywhere All at Once (March 2022). The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others. Based in New York, Rafiq Bhatia is the first-generation American son of Muslim immigrant parents who trace their ancestry to India through East Africa. Early influences such as Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, and Madlib—as well as mentors and collaborators including Vijay Iyer and Billy Hart—prompted him to see music as a way to actively shape and represent his own identity, not limited by anyone else’s prescribed perspective. When Ian Chang describes his creative process, the phrase "third culture” keeps coming up. Born in the colony of Hong Kong in 1988, Chang has lived a nomadic life. Stationed out of New York for ten years and since relocated to Dallas, Texas, he built an impressive roster of progressive pop collaborators such as Moses Sumney, Joan As Policewoman, and Matthew Dear, among others, all while performing internationally and recording as a member of Son Lux and Landlady. Ryan Lott makes his home in Los Angeles but grew up all over the United States. Music was the one constant in his formative years spent at the piano. In addition to an extensive career writing music for dance, he has become a sought-after composer for advertising, television, and film. Lott’s feature film credits include The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2014), Paper Towns (2015), and Mean Dreams (2017). He has co-produced and co-written music for and with Woodkid, Sufjan Stevens, and Lorde.   BIOGRAPHY: QASIM NAQVI  Qasim Naqvi is a drummer and founding member of Dawn of Midi. Outside of his role in D.O.M., Qasim works on various projects, from electronic music to composing for orchestras, chamber groups, dance and film.  His concert music has been performed/commissioned by The BBC Concert Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, The London Contemporary Orchestra, Stargaze, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crash Ensemble, The Now Ensemble, The Erebus Ensemble, yMusic, The Helsinki Chamber Choir, Alexander Whitley, Cikada, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra(MusicNOW Season) and others. He has been a featured composer at the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki, the Spitalfields Festival in London, Ultima Festival, Southbank Centre and the Rest is Noise Festival in Holland.   Qasim's soundtracks for the film have appeared on HBO, NBC, PBS, Showtime, New York Times Op-Docs, VICE Media, at The Tribeca, Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam and London Film Festivals, at dOCUMENTA 13 and 14, The Guggenheim Museum, The Tate Britain (Turner Prize 2018), MOMA P.S. 1, IDFA, Berlinale and others. He has worked with such notable filmmakers as Laura Poitras, Mariam Ghani, Marc Levin, Naeem Mohaiemen, Smriti Keshari, Prashant Bhargava and Erin Heidenreich. Acoustic trio Dawn of Midi has released two albums. Their most recent Dysnomia was acclaimed by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Guardian and the New Yorker. Radiohead personally picked Dawn of Midi as their support band for two sold-out concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden for their Moon Shaped Pool tour.    Qasim earned his B.F.A in performance from the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music program and his M.F.A in composition and performance from California Institute of the Arts. He studied drums and performance with Andrew Cyrille, Joe Chambers, Reggie Workman, Buster Williams, Ralph Peterson Jr., Charlie Haden and Rashied Ali and composition with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Marc Sabat, Wadada Leo Smith, Michael Jon Fink and Anne LeBaron. He is a 2016 N.Y.F.A Fellow in Music and Sound and has received other fellowships and awards from Chamber Music America, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, Harvest Works, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, S.T.E.I.M. and Art OMI. Presently, Qasim lives in Brooklyn, New York and works on various projects as a freelance composer and drummer. He is represented by Erased Tapes Publishing.   RESOURCE LINKS Podcast - LaunchLeft   SON LUX LINKS: Son Lux Music - Website Son Lux - Instagram Son Lux - Twitter Son Lux - Facebook Son Lux - YouTube Son Lux - Soundcloud   QASIM NAQVI LINKS: Qasim Naqvi - Website Qasim Naqvi - Instagram Qasim Naqvi - Twitter Qasim Naqvi - Bandcamp  

Recorded during New Music Dublin 2023, Jonathan Grimes talks to Andrew Hamilton about his new work ‘Friendly Piece' which received its premiere at the festival by Crash Ensemble, and Yue Song, one of the composers who participated in the groups's Crash Works initiative. Show Notes New Music Dublin - Can music be kind? Andrew Hamilton New Music Dublin - You Heard It First Ryan McAdams Yue Song Editing: Keith Fennell. Thanks to Crash Ensemble for the recordings of Andrew Hamilton's Friendly Piece and Yue Song's Senses IV.

A conversation recorded during this year’s New Music Dublin with Crash Ensemble’s principal conductor Ryan McAdams, pianist Eliza McCarthy and composer Donnacha Dennehy about his new piano concerto Limina. Show Notes New Music Dublin - Limina Donnacha Dennehy Eliza McCarthy Ryan McAdams Music Donnacha Dennehy - Limina (Eliza McCarthy, Crash Ensemble, conductor Ryan McAdams), 20 April 2023, New Music Dublin. Thanks to Crash Ensemble for the recording. Editing: Keith Fennell

A conversation with composer Garrett Sholdice about his new album ‘The Blue Light’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the composer speaks about his musical preoccupations, the process of producing the album, and his approach to composing. Show Notes Garrett Sholdice: The Blue Light (Ergodos) Garrett Sholdice Music Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: I (Crash Ensemble) Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: I (Crash Ensemble) Garrett Sholdice - Gymel (Crash Ensemble: Ed Creedon, Kate Ellis) Garrett Sholdice - Prelude No. 12 (Michael McHale) Garrett Sholdice - Das blaue Licht: II (Crash Ensemble) Garrett Sholdice - Und weinen, und l​ä​cheln (Michael McHale) Garrett Sholdice - St Dunstan​-​in​-​the​-​East (Michael McHale, Crash Ensemble)

Stephen Shannon is gearing up to release his first album under his own name. It's called Fathoms and is out Friday, May 19, on 251 Records. But it's far from Shannon's debut release - he's made many albums over the year under guises such as Halfset, Strands, and Mount Alaska. And that's all on top of his work as a sound artist, composing scores for TV and film. We talk about all of that and his upcoming show at the National Concert Hall as part of the Metronome series to launch Fathoms. That gig is also on this Friday, May 19. Tickets: https://www.nch.ie/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=Metronome-Stephen-Shannon-19May23&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= Regarding Fathoms, Shannon received an Arts Council agility award to help compose and record with members of The Crash Ensemble on an album that spans the divide between his film composition work and his more electronic releases such as with Mount Alaska. You'll hear a couple tracks from the album during the interview, including the opener Past Tense and singles Evergreen and Eyot, which closes out the show. For more: https://251records.lnk.to/ssEyot

The Common Ground Ensemble is English cellist Kate Ellis (Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble), Irish jazz pianist Cormac McCarthy (Peter Washington, Phil Woods), Irish traditional musician Brian Donnellan (bouzouki, concertina, harmonium, and like Hayes an alumnus of Hayes's father's Tulla Céilí Band), and New York guitarist Kyle Sanna (Bela Fleck, Chris Thile). Collectively they span the worlds of traditional, contemporary classical, jazz improvisation, and experimental music. These genres are forged with the Irish tradition and give each musician's talents the space to shine.Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.comThis album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

The Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anna Mieke spent much of her youth traveling the world – from Spain to Bangladesh, Bulgaria to New Zealand.  Her songs can conjure an expansive sense of place, and of moving through those places - touching on change, age, death, dreaming, memory, family, and perhaps an alternate reality on her latest album Theatre. Anna Mieke's enveloping acoustic chamber-folk can start with her borrowed 1936 Epiphone guitar, and may also involve improvisation with her core band. She's also a bouzouki player, pianist, and a cellist who played with HEX, a Cork-based experimental outfit, and was a vocalist with the singing group, Rufous Nightjar. She's collaborated with Irish artists Crash Ensemble, Adrian Crowley, and Linda Buckley and with New York-based artists Charlotte Greve, Grey McMurray, and Anna Roberts Gevalt; in March, Mieke will play shows with Iron & Wine. Anna Mieke and her band stopped by on their current tour to play these recent songs, in-studio. Set list: “Seraphim”, “Twin”, “Coralline” Watch “Seraphim”: Watch “Twin”: Watch “Coralline”:

This week, amplify marks the 25th anniversary of the Crash Ensemble with interviews with Artistic Director, Kate Ellis as well as founding member and the ensemble's first Artistic Director, Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Crash Ensemble [reactions] Donnacha Dennehy Music Barry O'Halpin - Lethargarian Éna Brennan - Runaway David Fennessy - Jack Barry O'Halpin - Wingform Sam Perkin - Children in the Universe Barry O'Halpin - Wingform

Well I Just Kind of Like It is a new collection of writing edited by Wendy Erskine, about art in the home and the home as art - Crash Ensemble are a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous and groundbreaking music of today - Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus is back for Season 2, with Gary Oldman as a foul-mouthed spy.

Life and death on an Irish bog, the comings/goings of Insta-travel, the music of exile and the films of Crash Ensemble resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran.

10.11: Kate Ellis, artistic director of Crash Ensemble, talks through their 25th anniversary celebrations, involving a new album, [REACTIONS], an installation, and a couple of shows at the NCH (more info below). Plus we talk about Kate's journey to this point, how a tap on the shoulder as she was walking down Grafton Street changed everything for her. We hear three Crash tracks from [REACTIONS]: One Day, This is the Space Between Your Hand and Mine, and Stone or Rot. New music section 53.29: Moesha - Drag https://youtu.be/FbdfnLpV8aI 58.27: Sarah Buckley - Dream Catching https://sarahbuckleymusic.bandcamp.com/ More information on Crash Ensemble's 25th anniversary celebrations: [REACTIONS] limited edition double album release and film screenings Amidst the onset of the global pandemic, Crash Ensemble commissioned 17 Irish and international composers from a range of musical backgrounds to write new works for duos within the group. Building on existing collaborative partnerships and cultivating and nurturing new relationships, composers were invited to create a musical response to their experiences, the current state and their thoughts for the future. The [REACTIONS] composers are: Amy Rooney, Anna Mieke, Anna Murray, Anselm McDonnell, Bébhinn McDonnell, Bekah Simms, David Fennessy, Deirdre Gribbin, Diamanda Dramm, Éna Brennan, Jonathan Nangle, Rachael Lavelle, Rose Connolly, Seán Ó'Dálaigh, Sebastian Adams, Siobhán Cleary, and Stephen Shannon. Each composer documented their creative process with text and imagery, offering a fly on the wall view of the composers' studio spaces, visual imagery and text journaling during the creative process. The duos were recorded and will now be presented in a limited-edition double album release [REACTIONS], coming November 25th. Audio visual material was combined with these recordings to make an accompanying film by Crash's resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran, which will be screened at The Irish Film Institute, Wednesday 30th November 2022. Performances at The National Concert Hall The 25th year anniversary programme culminates with two special concerts and a cutting-edge installation at the National Concert Hall (NCH). The first celebratory concert, Crash 25! Charged Disruption, on Saturday 3rd December (The Studio) sees the acclaimed ensemble, with conductor Ryan McAdams, perform Donnacha Dennehy's magnetic, soulful and influential work Grá agas Bás with vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird. In the second part of the concert Artist in Residence Diamanda La Berge Dramm and writer Neva Elliot present Crashed, drawing on the unique energy of the players of the group, through the use of their voices and instruments. For the second birthday concert, Crash 25! Living Perspectives, on Sunday 4th December (The Studio) the ensemble's programme comprises Australian composer Liza Lim's Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus and Barry O'Halpin's experimental work Wingform, which takes advantage of Crash's unique ability to cover a breadth of musical ground: winding melodies, mechanical rhythms, rapid lines and hypnotic drones. The previous week, from Thursday 24th November to Sunday 27th November, The Studio space in the National Concert Hall hosts Crash 25! Wingform Installation. The installation is the work of video artist and filmmaker Jack Phelan who created a work responding to the visual themes of Irish composer, Barry O'Halpin's Wingform - a four movement work for solo guitar and ensemble. Using a simple set of shapes, materials and layout, the installation aims to evoke the essence of the ensemble. Tickets for Crash 25! Charged Disruption (3rd December) and Crash 25! Living Perspectives (4th December): €18 are available from nch.ie

Crash Ensemble's resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran on turning music into movies

CEO of the contemporary music powerhouse Crash Ensemble, Siân Cunningham shares her favourite in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

The final instalment from this year’s New Music Dublin 2022 festival features conversations with Amanda Feery about Creative Lab, a composition programme for young people from traditionally underrepresented groups, and Sam Perkin on his new work for Crash Ensemble and Diamanda La Berge Dramm, ‘Children in the Universe’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes New Music Dublin Creative Lab Amanda Feery CMC Composer Page Sam Perkin CMC Composer Page Crash Ensemble - Putting it into music Music Sam Perkin - Flow Sam Perkin - Children in the Universe (Crash Ensemble, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, conductor Peter Biloen)

DescriptionOccasionally, I am going to release a bonus interview episode for your listening pleasure. For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Bekah Simms who is the outgoing General Manager for the Canadian League of Composers. She is also a truly innovative composer in her own right. We chatted all about the League as well as Bekah's compositional process and what she's currently working on. Enjoy!Bekah on SoundCloud | Ghost Songs By Bekah Simms on BandcampAbout Bekah SimmsThe varied output of JUNO and Gaudeamus Award-nominated composer Bekah Simms has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy musical landscapes. Foremost among her current compositional interests is quotation and the friction between recognizability and complete obfuscation.Bekah hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently Toronto-based. Her music has been widely performed across Canada, in over a dozen American states, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Lithuania, the UK, and Russia. Commissioning ensembles include some of the top interpreters of contemporary music in both Canada and internationally, such as Crash Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, l'Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Esprit Orchestra, Continuum Contemporary Music, Ensemble Télémaque, Ensemble Paramirabo, and Duo Concertante. Upcoming commissions include new works for Crash, But What About?, New Music Concerts, and more.About Steven (TCMM Host)Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more. Member of the Canadian League Of Composers.A Note To Music Students et al.All recordings and sheet music are available on my site. I encourage you to take a look and play through some. Give me a shout if you have any questions.Got a topic? Pop me off an email at: TCMMPodcast@Gmail.com Support the show

A selection of conversations recorded during this year's New Music Dublin festival. The episode features interviews with the participating composers in CMC and Chamber Choir Ireland's Choral Sketches project, the Crash Ensemble's Crash Works event, and interviews with New Music Dublin festival artistic director John Harris, and Ergodos Records co-artistic director, Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes New Music Dubin Choral Sketches Chamber Choir Ireland Peter Moran petermoranmusic.com CMC composer page Eoghan Desmond www.eoghandesmond.com CMC composer page David Bremner davidbremner.net CMC composer page Kerry Hagan kerrylhagan.net CMC composer page Crash Works Anselm McDonnell anselmguitar.co.uk CMC composer page Peter Biloen Amy Rooney Ergodos Totemic NARLI Garrett Sholdice Music Ian Wilson - Totemic (Alex Petcu, Nathan Sherman) Recordings taken from Choral Sketches workshop Recording taken from Crash Works open session Benedict Schlepper Connolly - One Thing I Know

Welcome to Bittersweet Symphony, a podcast about the bitter, sweet and bittersweet memories and experiences of classical musicians during the pandemic. Hosted and produced by me, Cliodhna Ryan, a violinist, it's an intimate and heart-warming exploration of the human spirit. My guest in episode twelve is violinist Anita Vedres. There are three significant areas of her life she explores with us; her family, her working and musical life, and nature and the environment. In each of these areas, she reflects on her bitter, sweet and bittersweet memories and experiences. She shares her thoughts on the impact of international touring on the environment, her engagement with nature, freelance life, the place of music in our society, how that is or isn't represented and reflected in the decisions our government makes and finally "our glorious insignificance." Anita left Ireland to studying in London and Utrecht. She returned to Ireland and joined the Irish Chamber Orchestra. A full member there for years, she continues to perform regularly with them. She is also a former member of the National Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the RTE Concert Orchestra. Holding a master's degree in baroque violin she is a founding and active member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra. Aside from her diverse orchestral activities she enjoys playing 17th- & 18th-century and contemporary music in chamber ensembles and has appeared with Crash Ensemble, Camerata Kilkenny, Musici Ireland, Armoniosa and the Robinson Panoramic Quartet with whom she has premiered many works by Irish composers. She enjoys working with young people as a violin teacher and coach through Dublin Youth Orchestras and in schools workshops with Music Network. She is a regular contributor to the Classical Kids concert series and is currently among the musicians in residence at the National Opera House, working to get young children inspired by and involved in music. This interview was recorded in September 2021. GET IN TOUCH WITH ANITA/LINKS Instagram Facebook Irish Baroque Orchestra GET IN TOUCH WITH BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY Instagram Twitter Facebook #bittersweetsymphony CREDITS Thumbnail Art || Colm MacAthlaoith Writers || Mick Jagger, Richard Ashcroft, Keith Richards Violin || Cliodhna Ryan Production || Cliodhna Ryan Mastering || Patrick Stefan Groenland

Welcome to Bittersweet Symphony, a podcast about the bitter, sweet and bittersweet memories and experiences of classical musicians during the pandemic. Hosted and produced by me, Cliodhna Ryan, a violinist, it's an intimate and heart-warming exploration of the human spirit. My guest in episode eleven is Steve Kelly, percussionist with the RTE Concert Orchestra since 2010. He shares his bitter memory of the Guinness Jazz Festival being cancelled, the sweet experience of being able to support his wife as she devoted herself to her art practice and the bittersweet of returning to work. Stephen Kelly is the sub-principal percussionist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and he has lectured in percussion at the MTU Cork School of Music since 2004. He has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, City of London Sinfonia, Crash Ensemble and many more. Equally as at home driving a big band from behind the drum kit, tinging a triangle in an orchestra or educating future professional percussionists, Stephen manages to make a living playing music, which in his words “certainly beats working.” This interview was recorded in August 2021. GET IN TOUCH WITH STEVE KELLY/LINKS Twitter RTE Concert Orchestra on Instagram Deirdre Frost on Instagram Deirdre's website GET IN TOUCH WITH BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY Instagram Twitter Facebook #bittersweetsymphony CREDITS Thumbnail Art || Colm MacAthlaoith Writers || Mick Jagger, Richard Ashcroft, Keith Richards Violin || Cliodhna Ryan Production || Cliodhna Ryan Mastering || Patrick Stefan Groenland

Welcome to Bittersweet Symphony, a podcast about the bitter, sweet and bittersweet memories and experiences of classical musicians during the pandemic. Hosted and produced by me, Cliodhna Ryan, a violinist, it's an intimate and heart-warming exploration of the human spirit. My guest in episode ten is french horn player Hannah Miller. She shares the bitter experience of a chamber ensemble trial in Paris thwarted by endless lockdowns, and her sweet experience of restoring her great-grandmother's chicken coop which had fallen into disrepair. Her family worked on the project together and it became the first of many building efforts they embarked on collectively. Her bittersweet memory is of her graduation from Julliard. This milestone didn't happen in New York with her classmates but online, which meant she could celebrate this moment with her entire clan. Hannah Miller attained her Bachelor degree at Finland's Sibelius Academy and graduated with a Master's degree from New York's Juilliard School in 2021, where she was awarded with the William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement in Music and leadership. During her time in Finland, Hannah won the position of Associate Principal Horn with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, and has since gone from strength to strength as an orchestral musician, performing with the Irish National Opera, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Irish Chamber Orchestra and joining the Verbier Festival Orchestra in 2019. As a member of the Irish contemporary music group Kirkos Ensemble, she has been featured in solo and chamber music concerts performing a wide range of new works. She has performed with Crash Ensemble, Le Concert Impromptu and Ulysses Ensemble. Hannah is the Festival Director and founder of ‘FuddleFest', a music festival based at her home in Fuddletown, Wexford which first took place in August 2021. She spends any free time there minding her goats, chickens and ducks on the family farm. This conversation was recorded in September 2021. GET IN TOUCH WITH HANNAH Kirkos on Instagram FuddleFest on Instagram GET IN TOUCH WITH BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY Instagram Twitter Facebook #bittersweetsymphony CREDITS Thumbnail Art || Colm MacAthlaoith Writers || Mick Jagger, Richard Ashcroft, Keith Richards Violin || Cliodhna Ryan Production || Cliodhna Ryan Mastering || Patrick Stefan Groenland

This week, Garrett and Scott spend some time reviewing and unpacking the latest Grammy Award ceremony, highlighting the show's performances by Lady Gaga, Doja Cat, Curtis Stewart, Chris Stapleton, and several others. In the second movement, Garrett revisits a bit of operatic video game music while Scott honors the birth anniversary of Muddy Waters. Perri and Charlotte from the "Thrilled to Announce" podcast join Garrett in the third movement to discuss digital creation, DEI in opera, and podcasting in the "classical" sphere. And in the weekly TRILLOQUY Scott offers a whistleblower letter written by a former employee of Chamber Music America, and Garrett sends a dark shout out to three senators who refused to vote for the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Support for TRILLOQUY comes from the Lakes Area Music Festival: https://lakesareamusic.org Playlist: Lady Gaga - "Do I Love You" Doja Cat - "Mooo!" perf. Curtis Stewart - "Isn't She Lovely" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Gd0T1hPBU) Chris Stapleton - "Cold" Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man" Nobuo Uematsu - "Maria and Draco" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8D8x3NQySE) Kaija Saariaho - "Lonh" Tyshawn Sorey - "Autoschediasms" for Crash Ensemble, Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJj3mlIhYsw) Marlon Craft - "HANS ZIMMER" More: Thrilled To Announce Podcast: https://www.thrilledtoannounce.com Downbeat (Virgil Abloh speaks to the world as his muse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcOe90wMRQ Grammy 2022 Winners: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/arts/music/grammys-winners.html Who Gets To Define Classical Music?: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/03/31/grammys-classical-music-black-artists Volodymyr Zelensky's Grammys Speech: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/volodymyr-zelenskys-grammys-speech-full-transcript/ar-AAVPbbj 5 Questions to Orlando Jacinto García: https://icareifyoulisten.com/2022/02/5-questions-to-orlando-jacinto-garcia-composer/ Grammy for Best Reggae Album Goes to a Bunch of White Guys: https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/white-guy-group-soja-wins-grammy-for-best-reggae-album.html Whistleblower Calls Out Chamber Music America: https://twitter.com/griffincandey/status/1510967274357805061?s=20&t=CIGKp9ggc12SdxWkS-8mlQ Three Republicans Just Couldn't Help Voting Against Making Lynching a Hate Crime: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/thomas-massie-andrew-clyde-chip-roy-lynching-bill-1314375/

'The Promise' - longlisted for this year's Booker Prize, following the fortunes of the Swarts of South Africa, over four decades, Invitation to a Journey, a film installation, filmmaker Eoin Heaney with a score by Crash Ensemble, it's an exploration of the work of one of Ireland's greatest designers, Eileen Gray & new albums, Billie Eilish

Caimin Gilmore, Double Bassist, Composer, Arranger and Songwriter with Sun Collective and Crash Ensemble, joined Sean on the show. Listen and subscribe to Moncrieff on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.  

The third in a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April. CMC’s Jonathan Grimes speaks to Crash Ensemble Artistic Director and cellist, Kate Ellis, and composer and guitarist with Crash Ensemble, Barry O’Halpin, about his work ‘Wingform’ which was premiered by the group during the festival. Show notes New Music Dublin Kate Ellis Crash Ensemble reactions Free State 13 Barry O’Halpin Music All works performed by Crash Ensemble Rachael Lavelle - This Is The Space Between Your Hand and Mine Gemma Doherty - Middle Distance Seán Ó Dálaigh - Proximity Studies Darragh Kelly - Deep Model Worker Amy Rooney - Pendulums and Sundials Barry O’Halpin - Wingform

Irish singer and songwriter Adrian Crowley is known for his often detailed but surreal storytelling, and for his rich baritone voice. Crowley says that his latest batch of songs “straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place.” Produced by John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) and featuring members of Portishead and Crash Ensemble, these tunes were initially composed on a “charity shop ¾ size  nylon string guitar” or Mellotron (Bandcamp). Crowley plays songs from his latest album, The Watchful Eye Of The Stars remotely from Dublin and dances around Sprechstimme (speak-singing), water and ships, and isolation – whether chosen or imposed upon a person. Set list: “The Singalong” “Shut-in’s Lament” “Take Me Driving” "The Singalong": "A Shut-in's Lament": “Take Me Driving”:

Improvising musician and composer, Lara Gallagher, on her New Music Dublin premiere, Phoenicia, a work for Crash Ensemble - and an onstage painter.

Cúil Aodha singer and producer Iarla Ó Lionáird is this week's guest.Ó Lionáird is a former member of the hugely successful Afro Celt Sound System while in more recent years he has been a member of the traditional/folk supergroup The Gloaming.He spoke at length to Southern Star Creative Manager Niall O'Driscoll about growing up in Cúil Aodha, his varied career and making music from his home near Inistioge in Co Kilkenny during the pandemic.News Editor Siobhan Cronin also reviews this week's Southern Star which features a dramatic photo of the convent fire in Skibbereen on its front page.This week's music is from composer Linda Buckley's brand new album 'From Ocean's Floor' – which features our guest Iarla Ó Lionáird and the Crash Ensemble.Linda is from Kinsale originally and comes from a very musical family of nine. She is currently based in Glasgow, where she lectures in music. This piece is called Gealach agus Grian – the sun and moon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dublin artist Caimin Gilmore's chamber folk group Sun Collective released their latest EP on his 32nd birthday over the summer. He talks about how the collective works and we try to delve into the rest of his prolific music career, from playing with various orchestras including Crash Ensemble, to touring with Lisa Hannigan and making music with Damon Albarn at his gaff in Iceland. We also discuss the world of orchestras and trying to get into the audition room, as well as his holidays in Cork. Outro music: Sun Collective - Swallow

Classical Double Bassist and singer, Caimin Gilmore talks to Chris about his musical experiences, his journey into music and how music is not only his job, but is also the vehicle of expression of his deepest self. He provides a fascinating and insightful account of the power of music and how aligned it is it is to the therapy process.

The last in the current series of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Crash Ensemble CEO Neva Elliott McGinley and conductor Sinead Hayes on their current and future work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Neva Elliott McGinley Crashlands Professor Bad Trip Free State 12 Free State 13 Sinead Hayes Irish National Digital Performance Platform blog post Music Neva Elliott McGinley Donnacha Dennehy - Canons and Overtones (Crash Ensemble), 5:25, 26:34 Roger Doyle - UX 2 (Crash Ensemble) Linda Buckley - Seancheann (Caimin Gilmore) Seán Clancy - Eleven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop Andrew Hamilton - Music for People Who Like Art (Crash Ensemble) Donnacha Dennehy - As An Nós (Crash Ensemble) Mango X MathMan - Deep Blue featuring Lisa Hannigan and Crash Ensemble Sinead Hayes Greg Caffrey - The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) Raymond Deane - Vagbones (Opera Collective Ireland) Piers Hellawell - Ground Truthing: I (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) Greg Caffrey - Garden of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) amplify podcast highlights Amanda Feery - Vulture (Crash Ensemble) Jennifer Walshe - TIME TIME TIME Donnacha Dennehy - The Hunger: Black Potatoes (Crash Ensemble and Iarla O Lionaird) Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street from Moog Residency

Episode 19 features conversations with Dave Flynn about his current musical focus and the future for Irish composers and musicians after the Covid–19 Pandemic, and Karen Power on performing live with other musicians over the Internet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes In Focus album (featuring Gráinne Mulvey) Dave Flynn Dave Flynn on Soundcloud Mel Bay Irish Memory Orchestra Niwel Tsumbu Karen Power Karen Power on Soundcloud Earth Day Telematic Festival Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Gráinne Mulvey - Interstices (Ensemble MISE-EN) Dave Flynn daveflynn.bandcamp.com Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3 ‘The Keening’ III (ConTempo Quartet), 4:30, 32:34 Dave Flynn - Tar Éis an Caoineadh ’ (Irina Muresanu) Dave Flynn - Winter Snowflakes Dave Flynn - Elegy for Joan Dave Flynn - The Corncrake Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 2 ‘The Cranning’ - Slip (ConTempo Quartet Dave Flynn - Joy (Niwel Tsumbu, Crash Ensemble) [live recording] Benjamin Dwyer - Etude No. 1 from Twelve Etudes Eric Sweeney - Figurations (John Feeley) Jane O’Leary - Four Pieces for Guitar (John Feeley) Dave Flynn - Paddy Fahey’s Reels No. 20 & 6 Dave Flynn - The Minimalist Reel (from the Clare Concerto) (Irish Memory Orchestra) [live recording] Karen Power veiled border quartet (Thomas Ciufo, John Godfrey, Karen Power, Jane Rigler)

Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes Recording - Keith Fennell To mark International Women's Day 2020, episode 10 of CMC's podcast amplify profiles the work of the Sounding the Feminists collective with a conversation between Evonne Ferguson and STF Working Group Members Ann Cleare, Karen Power and Laura Watson; and STF Research Associate, Ciara Murphy on her project to carry out a Gender Balance Review Project for the collective. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify Show Notes Sounding the Feminists Ann Cleare Karen Power Laura Watson Ciara Murphy Sounding the Feminists and Contemporary Music Centre Announce Gender Balance Review Project 2019 Music Ann Cleare - fiáin, Crash Ensemble from the Album Crashlands - 00:02 Karen Power - Invitation to Wander, Quiet Music Ensemble, Ute Wassermann, Michelle O' Rourke, Sound Choir led by Karen Power - 17:13

Episode 4 of CMC's fortnightly podcast features interviews with Donnacha Dennehy, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Tom Creed on Dennehy's recent opera, ‘The Hunger', and former RTÉ producer and RTÉ lyric fm station head Seamus Crimmins on composer and choral conductor Colin Mawby, who died recently. Production - Jonathan Grimes Recording and editing - Keith Fennell The feature on Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger was devised and researched by Maynooth University music lecturer and researcher, Stephanie Ford. Show Notes Donnacha Dennehy www.donnachadennehy.com Iarla Ó Lionáird iarla.com Tom Creed tomcreed.org The Hunger - Abbey Theatre www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-hunger Music The Hunger The Hunger: Black Potatoes, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 00:02, 20:28, 23:23, 28:39 The Hunger: I Feared He Would Die, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 06:17, 26:18 Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 09:09, 12:38, 15:55 Stainless Staining, Lisa Moore - 14:52 Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 15:55 The Hunger: I Have Seen and Handled the Black Bread, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson 17:20 The Hunger: The Keening, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 31:44 Colin Mawby Ave verum corpus, Westminster Catherdral Choir, City of London Sinfonia, conductor James O'Donnell - 32:51, 41:16 When David Heard, Chamber Choir Ireland - 36:49 O magnum mysterium, Kölner Kantorei, conductor Volker Hempfling - 38:44

In the first episode of CMC's new fortnightly podcast, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes talk with composer Amanda Feery about her recent work at the Dublin Fringe Festival, writing for symphonic wind band, making a living as a composer in Dublin and the worsening economic conditions for artists living in the capital, and why she chose to move back to Ireland from the US. Recorded in CMC in October 2019 cmc.ie Amanda Feery https://www.cmc.ie/composers/amanda-feery https://soundcloud.com/amandafeery Music Squarepushers, Quince Ensemble - 3:25 https://www.cmc.ie/music/squarepushers Give Us The Night, Third Coast Percussion - 15:05 This is the House Of, Mizzou New Music Initiative - 34:10 Vultures, Crash Ensemble - 40:08 Nine Weeks https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/nine-weeks-review-extraordinary-performance-which-gives-voice-to-the-inexpressible–1.4016197 Ball State Symphony Band https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/music/ensembles/bands/symphony-band Heartworm (clip) https://twitter.com/amandafeery/status/1175037921767886849 Irish National Opera Studio https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/ Evangelia Rigaki - This Hostel Life https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/whats-on/current-upcoming-productions/this-hostel-life Stephen McNeff - Banished https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/stephen-mcneffs-banished-at-kilmainham-gaol-museum-tickets–50368700138 Donnacha Dennehy - Second Violinist https://thesecondviolinist.ie/ New Music Dublin https://www.cmc.ie/content/new-music-dublin–2019 CrashLands https://www.crashensemble.com/crashlands Recording and production - Keith Fennell Editing - Jonathan Grimes

Ros Madigan is one of the editors in chief of the music website Golden Plec, tireless advocates of all things Irish, independent and musical. He is also Community Manager with Today FM. Ros talks about managing all aspects of those things. Kate Ellis is a rare entity on this podcast, she makes her living entirely from playing music. Kate is a classically trained cellist, but she also plays traditional Irish music with vocalist Karen Casey, she plays world music with Yurodny, she's played with Katie Kim, she's as at home in the National Concert Hall as she is recording in Chicago with Steve Albini.  Kate is also creative director with new music group Crash Ensemble. In this episode she discusses her career path, funding and education.

Sheelagh Dempsey has details of a celebration in Galway of female composers by the Luminosa String Quartet and Contempo Quartet, Limerick Choral Union performs Mozart’s Requiem and the Crash Ensemble go skate-boarding…

In this episode, Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea are joined by fellow Docker Derek McGrath, Tara Levins from Accenture Ireland, and Neva Elliot McGinley, CEO of Crash Ensemble, to discuss how hierarchy has both helped and undermined their working lives, and what we can learn from different workplaces and their approach to structure, from “flatocracies” and lattices structures to the “wolves who meet in the woods”. DockPod is presented by Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea and is produced by Sinead O’Shea.

Stephanie is a dancer, actor and maker from the West of Ireland currently based in Dublin. Stephanie holds a BA in Dance from the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands. Since graduating she has worked for companies and choreographers in the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland such as Protein Dance, Icon Dance, Chrysalis Dance, United Fall/Emma Martin, Dam Van Huynh, Marguerite Donlon, Theo Clinkard, Liz Roche and John Heginbotham. Stephanie spent two years in the full time programme at Bow Street, the Academy for Screen Acting in Dublin. While there she worked with Directors Shimmy Marcus, Lance Daly, Jim Sheridan and Cathy Brady among others. Stephanie has been featured in music videos for Talos, Galia Arad, Join Me in the Pines, Edel Meade and Crash Ensemble. Stephanie has appeared in national campaigns for Dublin Airport Authority and Bank of Ireland and was the face of the Galway International Arts Festival in 2017 and 2018. Stephanie's own choreographic work has been performed at the Clonmel Junction Festival, Galway Culture Night and Cork Midsummer Festival. She is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland and Galway Dance Project. Stephanie is a recipient of a 2018 Arts Council Artists' bursary to explore a dance work in conjunction with the work of poet Dani Gill.

Universal Music Ireland are delighted to announce the release of ‘The Last Goodbye’ – a collection of Christie’s beautifully crafted hits, re-recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. The album, released November 16th , presents Christie’s unique vocals accompanied by the 45 piece orchestra.This one-disc collection will feature 10 classic titles including the timeless version of ‘Messenger Boy’ sung in that unique delicate Kerry voice taken from his first ever LP. ‘Oh Jealous Heart’ and ‘Soho Square’ both get new treatment with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra creating that effortless and exhilarating accompaniment. The record also features some of his most beautifully penned songs including ‘Remember Me’ and not forgetting the country influenced ‘All The Lies That You Told Me’ (which had been a huge success as a single for Frances Black).The album also includes two beautiful duets with daughter Hermione on ‘Every Time A Star Falls’ featured on “A Friend of Mine” and ‘If You Were To Fall (And I Was To Fall In Love With You)’ taken from his multi-platinum selling album “A Year In The Life”.Christie Hennessy has been at the forefront of Irish music and folk music, his career spanning over 30 years and now fans will get to hear his wonderful songs and marvellous lyrics as the colourful legend lives on. Family always mattered hugely to Christie and his children Hermione, Tim and Amber became an increasingly central part of the story. They were all singers and musicians and they loved the creative interplay with him. Hermione recalls of her father “he took people on an emotional journey – from every high of happiness, through great, side-splitting laughter, to every touching piece of sadness… but as always with a sense of possibility and renewal.”The RTÉ Concert Orchestra were conducted on the album by Gavin Maloney who has worked with Ulster Orchestra, Crash Ensemble and National Chamber Choir. Gavin Moloney teamed up along-side Christie’s son Tim Hennessy orchestrator, producer and mix engineer for the album. Carrying on his father’s legacy and fulfilling his Dad’s dream to hear his songs performed by an orchestra. One of Christie’s very favourite albums was Harry Neilssen’s 'A Little Touch of Schmillson 'in the night…. and here it is realised…. but with his beautiful songs.This episode is supported by SuirDzign & Viking PromotionsTo subscribe to the podcast, go to 'Apple Podcasts' or 'Google Podcasts' or wherever you get your podcasts.Click on ‘subscribe’. Episode/s will automatically download every week…............. search “Roddie Cleere’s Irish Music Podcast’. It's also available via SpotifyIf you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, either for one episode or a series of episodes, please get in touch or consider becoming a patron. Visit www.patreon.com/irishmusicpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-heads/message

On tonight’s programme, we celebrate 20 years of Ireland’s leading new music group, Crash Ensemble. Since 1997 Crash has built an international reputation for boundary-pushing music and collaborating with an eclectic group of musicians and artists.

On today's podcast, Jon Pearson joins to talk about working with Crash Ensemble, the two shows he's involved with at the Dublin Fringe Festival, touring Europe as tour manager for the Icelandic band Samaris, the differences and similarities between Iceland and Cork, and a lot more besides.