• Robert Finegan
• Jenn Kirby
  • CMC Composer Page

In the second episode of our New Music Dublin Exchange Showcases, Tadhg Kinsella, a classically trained percussionist and live electronics musician, performs a live improvisation using modular synthesisers. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.

Show Notes

• Tadhg Kinsella
• Dublin Modular

Music recorded at IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HW59.

Recording:

Keith Fennell and Garrett Sholdice

Editing:

Keith Fennell

This episode of amplify features a conversation and improvisation by violinist Cora Venus Lunny and pianist Izumi Kimura, recorded live at the Contemporary Music Centre’s Creative Space as part of New Music Dublin Exchange. Presented by Jonathan Grimes

Show Notes

• Cora Venus Lunny
• Izumi Kimura
• Invisible Resistances (Farpoint Recordings, 2022)
• Folding (with Anthony Kelly) (Farpoint Recordings, 2021)
• CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange

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Music recorded at CMC’s Creative Space, Fishamble Street, Dublin, 2 April 2025. Sound: Keith Fennell

Image credit: Paul Hillier's final concert as AD of Chamber Choir Ireland (In Illo Tempore, October 2024), filmed by Dominik Kosicki.

Conductor Paul Hillier, who up to 2024 was Artistic Director of Chamber Choir Ireland, speaks to Evonne Ferguson about some of the Irish composers and works commissioned and performed during his time with the choir. The conversation was recorded in October 2024 and features works by Gerald Barry, Siobhán Cleary, Rhona Clarke, David Fennessy, Andrew Hamilton, Stephen McNeff and Jennifer Walshe. Show NotesChamber Choir Ireland:

• Paul Hillier
• Chamber Choir Ireland

Composers featured in this episode:

• Gerald Barry
  • CMC Composer Page
• Siobhán Cleary
  • CMC Composer Page
• Rhona Clarke
  • CMC Composer Page
• David Fennessy
  • CMC Composer Page
• Andrew Hamilton
  • CMC Composer Page
• Stephen McNeff
  • CMC Composer Page
• Jennifer Walshe
  • CMC Composer Page

MusicIn order of appearance in the episode:

chOirland - David Fennessy
Letter to Michael - David Fennessy
Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffett - Siobhán Cleary (Live Recording)
Everything is Ridiculous - Andrew Hamilton
Schott and Sons Mainz - Gerald Barry
Long Time - Gerald Barry

The White Noisery - Jennifer Walshe (Live Recording)

Dives and Lazurus - Stephen McNeff (Live Recording)

Pie Jesu from Requiem - Rhona Clarke (Live Recording)

All music featured in this episode was performed by Chamber Choir Ireland under the direction of Paul Hillier.

• Inventions: The Harpsichord Across Time and Borders
• Yonit Kosovske
• Evangelia Rigaki
• Janet Oates
• Fiona Linnane
  • CMC Composer Page
• Meadhbh Hayes
• Still, She Rises! concert - 23 March 2025

• ‘2 steep 4 sheep (some hills are)’ by Ailís Ní Ríain, performed live at Limerick City Gallery of Art by Yonit Kosovske on 7 November 2024
• ‘Keening’ by Evangelia Rigaki, recorded by Yonit Kosovske.
• ‘Leatherwing’ by Fiona Linnane, recorded by Yonit Kosovske.
• ‘Harpsitrance’ by Meadhbh Hayes, performed live at Limerick City Gallery of Art by Yonit Kosovske on 7 November 2024.

CMC’s podcast returns for 2025 with a recording taken from CMC’s recent Spring Gathering event featuring soprano Sylvia O’Brien and flautist Bill Dowdall performing Cathy Purcell’s ‘Droplet’. Winner of the 2024 Finding a Voice Composition Competition, Cathy Purcell also speaks to Jonathan Grimes about her experience composing the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

Show Notes

• Cathy Purcell
• Finding a Voice Composition Competition
• Finding a Voice Festival
• Evlana Ensemble
  • Sylvia O’Brien
  • Bill Dowdall

Music

‘Droplet’ by Cathy Purcell, performed live in CMC by Sylvia O’Brien and Bill Dowdall on 30 January 2025

For the final episode of amplify for 2024, Ian Wilson joins music journalist and contemporary music educator Tim Rutherford-Johnson for a conversation spanning his career and centred around a new essay commissioned by CMC. You'll also hear excerpts of live performances from the evening featuring Lina Andonovska (flute), Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin) and the composer himself, Ian Wilson (piano).

• Tim Rutherford-Johnson

• Ian Wilson

• • CMC Composer Page

• Lina Andonovska (Alto flute and piccolo)

• Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

You can order a hard copy of the essay here.

All music featured in this episode was recorded live in CMC's Library and Creative Space on December 6 2024.

Terra and Fuoco from I Quattro Elementi for solo violin - Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

Die Zwitscher-Maschine for solo piccolo - Lina Andonovska (Piccolo)

Spilliaert's Beach for alto flute and piano - Lina Andonovska (Alto flute) and Ian Wilson (Piano)

Recording and editing: Keith Fennell

Introduction: Jonathan Grimes

Caterina Schembri, whose debut album 'Sea Salt & Turpentine' was released on Ergodos, talks to Jonathan Grimes about her musical background and work as a composer. Show Notes

• Caterina Schembri
• Sea Salt & Turpentine

Music

All music taken from Sea Salt & Turpentine (Ergodos)

• Caterina Schembri - Sea salt & Turpentine, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - Soft charcoal over moonstone, Nathan Sherman (viola)
• Caterina Schembri - There is a willow, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - I wake up in the night when I dream in black and white , Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - It was only half as far, Ficino Ensemble