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	Pub. Date	Title	Duration
	21 Nov 2019	The Golden Age for contemporary music from Ireland? Songs in the Irish language, and rediscovering Irish women composers from the twentieth century - amplify #3	00:47:41
Episode 3 of CMC’s new podcast features an interview with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival artistic director, Graham McKenzie, Dáirine Ní Mheadhra on her project to commission Irish composers to write songs using Irish language texts, and CMC Scholar-in-residence Orla Shannon on the music and lives of twentieth-century Irish women composers Ina Boyle and Joan Trimble. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Recording and production - Keith Fennell Editing - Jonathan Grimes Show Notes Ann Cleare https://www.cmc.ie/composers/ann-cleare Riot Ensemble http://riotensemble.com/ Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival https://hcmf.co.uk/ CMC at HCMF https://www.cmc.ie/news/11202019–2125/cmc–2019-huddersfield-contemporary-music-festival Irish Language Art Song Project https://www.cmc.ie/AmhrainEalaineGhaeilge Joan Trimble https://www.cmc.ie/composers/joan-trimble Ina Boyle http://www.inaboyle.org/ Music Ann Cleare - Glór / Voice, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 00:02 Ann Cleare - Eyam V, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 3:25, 12:04 Andrew Hamilton - An dóigh leat? Do you think?, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 14:22, 16:06 Jennifer Walshe - 12 Amhrán Faoi Athrú Aeráide / 12 Climate Change Songs, Anna Devin (voice), John Hess (piano) - 19:04 John Kinsella - Bóithre Bána / White Roads, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 22:11 Ryan Molloy - Ceoltóir na nÉan / Bird Singer, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 23:20, 24:28 Linda Buckley - Sólás / Solace, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 28:21, 30:02 Joan Trimble - Green Rain, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 32:22 Ina Boyle - Symphony No. 1 ‘Glencree’ (second movement), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery - 34:46, 45:56 Ina Boyle - Sleep Song, Aylish Kerrigan (voice), Dearbhla Collins (piano) - 41:02 Joan Trimble - Girl’s Song, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 43:27
	16 Jan 2020	Violinist Darragh Morgan on commissioning and performing new music by Irish composers, and Deirdre Gribbin on receiving a Major Individual Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland - amplify #	00:44:30
Episode 6 of CMC's fortnightly podcast features interviews with violinist Darragh Morgan and composer Deirdre Gribbin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Darragh Morgan Deirdre Gribbin Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival Mode Records NMC Recordings Music Gerald Barry - Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio - 00:02, 19:43 Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Sound, Fidelio Trio - 00:32, 15:27, 43.17 Jonathan Nangle - where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds, Darragh Morgan - 03:51 Brian Irvine - A mon seul desir, Darragh Morgan, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney - 05:37, 06:29 Paul Wilson - Trapped in Ice, Darragh Morgan - 07:36 Michael Finnissy - Mississippi Hornpipes , Darragh Morgan - 08:47 John Buckley - Piano Trio: II Kaleidoscope, Fidelio Trio - 11:18 Donnacha Dennehy - Elastic Harmonic, Darragh Morgan, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney - 17:42 Linda Buckley - Exploding Stars, Darragh Morgan - 22:08 Piers Hellawell - Jan Palach and the Flaming Skier, Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea - 25:00 Kevin Volans - Piano Trio, Fidelio Trio - 27:04 Deirdre Gribbin - Venus Blazing, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Bradley Creswick - 34.23 Deirdre Gribbin - Hearing Your Genes Evolve, Isenberg Quartet- 38.03 Further information: https://www.cmc.ie/features/amplify-6
	20 Oct 2023	amplify #95 - Sinead Hayes on Composer Lab	00:26:13
Conductor Sinead Hayes joins Jonathan Grimes to discuss CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra’s recent Composer Lab workshop. Composer Lab is professional development initiative which aims to provide a creative and open environment for composers wishing to deepen their understanding of writing for the forces of a full symphony orchestra. Show Notes Composer Lab Composer Lab premiere performance and live broadcast Daragh Black Hynes Geoff Hannan Tom Lane Amy Rooney Sinead Hayes Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble 2023/24 Season NSO & CMC Composer Lab workshop 2023 - musings from the stalls
	22 Dec 2020	amplify #33 - 2020 wrap up, CMC Salon, and Anne-Marie O'Farrell	00:20:17
The final episode of CMC’s podcast presented by Jonathan Grimes and CMC Director Evonne Ferguson includes a brief look back on CMC’s work during 2020, an excerpt from CMC’s last online Salon event for 2020, and Anne-Marie O’Farrell on her 2017 Beethoven-inspired work, ‘Der Abend’. Show Notes Anne-Marie O’Farrell CMC Composer Page Composer Web Site CMC Salon - Sebastian Adams, Lina Andonoskva, and Barry O’Halpin
	24 Feb 2023	amplify #81 - New Music::New Ireland 4 Belfast Launch and Composer Lab	00:38:58
Episode 81 features highlights from the Belfast launch in January 2023 of CMC’s promotional album, New Music::New Ireland 4, and conversations with the composers who participated in Composer Lab, a professional development initiative delivered in partnership by the National Symphony Orchestra and CMC, in association with RTE lyric fm. Show Notes new music::new Ireland 4 showcase launch New Music::New Ireland 4 Amy Rooney Karen Power CMC Composer Page Ian Wilson CMC Composer Page John Buckley CMC Composer Page Piers Hellawell CMC Composer Page Judith Ring CMC Composer Page Anselm McDonnell CMC Composer Page Composer Lab 2022 Seán Ó Dálaigh Adam McCartney Music All music taken from the New Music::New Ireland 4 Showcase launch on 26 January 2023 and the Composer Lab 2022 premiere performance and broadcast on 9 January 2023
	03 Jul 2024	amplify #109 - Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin	00:25:48
An episode featuring a panel discussion from the Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin along with contributions from Shane Latimer and Izumi Kimura. Presented by Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Topographies Shane Latimer Residuum Izumi Kimura Francis Heery Elliot Murphy Ellen King Music Shane Latimer - Ten Minutes in the Tumble Dryer Shane Latimer, Izumi Kimura, Francis Heery, Ute Wasserman - live performance at Soweiso, Berlin, 23 May 2024 Ellen King - in situ, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024 Francis Heery - not knowing what brambles are, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024
	29 May 2020	amplify #21 - Ian Wilson, Jonathan Nangle, Deirdre O'Leary and Ultan O'Brien	00:59:13
Episode 21 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Ian Wilson on taking inspiration from the environment and politics, and his composing career up to this point, Jonathan Nangle and clarinettist Deirdre O’Leary on their recent collaboration for Music Network’s Butterfly Sessions, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer, Ultan O’Brien. Show Notes Jonathan Nangle Deirdre O’Leary Ian Wilson Soundcloud Butterfly Sessions - Jonathan Nangle and Deirdre O’Leary Ultan O’Brien Soundcloud West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Ultan O’Brien - Na Coillte Istoíche, 0:00, X:XX Jonathan Nangle - Mandala (Deirdre O’Leary) Ian Wilson - Lyric Suite (string quartet #7) (Callino Quartet) Ian Wilson - 1927 for three violins (Wasserfall) Ian Wilson - Pieces of Elsewhere Ian Wilson - A Sonata of Solstices and Equinoxes (Matthew Schellhorn), 23:48, 25:02 Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute) Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute) Ian Wilson - The emptiness of the ever-expanding universe cannot compare to the void where your heart should be (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) Ian Wilson - Species Counterpoint (Ties Mellema, Cathal Roche) Ian Wilson - Rise Ian Wilson - Limena (Hugh Tinney, Belgrade Strings) Gráinne Mulvey - Akanos (Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra) Anselm McDonnell - Hiraeth am Nefoedd Deirdre McKay - time shining (Andrew Zolinsky) Quiet Club + CrOw - As the quiet crow flies Greg Caffrey - Environments I (Finghin Collins, Ulster Orchestra) Ultan O’Brien - Fiddle Étude 3				08 Nov 2021	amplify #51 - Michael Gallen, Tom Creed, Daire Halpin and Fiona Monbet on the opera 'Elsewhere'	00:26:43
Show notes Michael Gallen CMC composer page michaeljgallen.com Straymaker Elsewhere at the Abbey Theatre (15–20 November 2021) Tom Creed Daire Halpin Fiona Monbet Music Music taken from the concert performance of the opera at St Maeldoid’s Church, Castleblayney in November 2019 and during rehearsals in Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney in October 2021.
	28 Sep 2020	amplify #25 - Eric Sweeney (1948-2020)	00:32:49
The first in a new series of CMC’s podcast features a special tribute to composer Eric Sweeney, who passed away in July of this year. The episode features contributions from David Adams, John Buckley, Hazel Farrell, Ronan Guilfoyle and Grainne Mulvey about the composer’s life, music and sizeable contribution to music in Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Eric Sweeney CMC Page ericsweeney.com David Adams John Buckley Hazel Farrell Ronan Guilfoyle Grainne Mulvey Through the Digital Door: works by Eric Sweeney in CMC’s Library Music Kyrie from Hymn to Gaia (Eric Sweeney) Ceol Rince Ros Mhic Treoin (New Ross Dance Music) (Finghin Collins, Dearbhla Collins, Alexander Bernstein) There is no Rose (Chamber Choir Ireland) Duo (John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina) Canzona (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Symphony No. 2 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Dance Music (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Le Circle de Lumiere (Eric Sweeney) The Widening Gyre (Eric Sweeney) Guitar Concerto (John Feeley, Sunrise Quartet) Walk/Don’t Walk (Ríona Ó’Duinnín, Geraldine O’Doherty, Nancy Johnson) The Invader Evening: the lighthouse at Hook Head (Olga Scheps) Thanks to Susan Brodigan, CMC Library Coordinator, for her help in sourcing the archival recordings.
	28 Mar 2022	amplify #64 - Rhona Clarke on her new choral album 'Sempiternam'	00:33:15
A conversation with composer Rhona Clarke about her new album ‘Sempiternam’. The album features a selection of the composer’s choral works composed over a 30-year period performed by State Choir Latvija. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Sempiternam Purchase via CMC Shop Rhona Clarke www.rhonaclarke.com CMC composer page State Choir Latvija Subscribe to amplify podcast Music Rhona Clarke - Requiem: In Paradisum (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - The Kiss (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Requiem: Pie Jesu (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Rorate Caeli (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Bizet - The Pearl Fishers Duet Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - The Kiss (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Salve Regina (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Ave Atque Vale (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - Requiem: Introit (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais) Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (State Choir Latvija, conductor Māris Sirmais)
	01 May 2020	Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and Beckett / Nick Roth on Diatribe Records	00:47:57
Episode 18 features conversations with composer and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and his Beckett-inspired album, ‘What is the Word’; and composer, saxophonist and Diatribe Records co-director Nick Roth on the label. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Benjamin Dwyer Nick Roth Diatribe Records New Music Dublin Diatribe Stage Blue Shroud Band Barry Guy Maya Homburger What is the Word album Patrick Pye Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Nick Roth - Clarinet Quintet for Klezmer Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and String Quartet Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) i Barry Guy and the Blue Shroud Band , 8:12, 10:24, 12:54, 15:36, 18:53 Barry Guy - Five Fizzles, 13:56 Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) iv Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - i. neither, 24:50, 27:03 -Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude i Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude ii Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett) iii Nick Roth - Bátá (live recording from New Music Dublin 2020, 35:23, 47:06 Nick Roth - A Loved A Long
	26 Dec 2021	amplify #57 - 2021 highlights and reflections: Mary Dullea	00:12:23
To mark the end of 2021, CMC’s amplify podcast invited some guests to reflect on their year. For this episode, pianist and Fidelio Trio member Mary Dullea shares some of her musical highlights of 2021. Show Notes Mary Dullea Hormoz Farhat amplify #49 - Hormoz Farhat (1928–2021) David Fennessy CMC Composer Page Universal Edition Composer Page Chamber Music on Valentia Raymond Deane raymonddeane.com CMC Composer Page Music Hormoz Farhat - Piano Sonata No. 2: Movt III Molto Animato David Fennessy - Piano Trio no. 2: In Memoriam Spencer Boney Movt II (Fidelio Trio) Raymond Deane - Scintillae II ‘Seven fragments from a pandemic’ (Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea)
	08 Mar 2022	amplify #61 - Ailís Ní Ríain and Yonit Kosovske	00:29:16
Episode 61 features conversations with composer Ailís Ní Ríain and pianist Yonit Kosovske about ‘Watershed’, a song cycle composed by Ailís Ní Ríain for Yonit Kosovske and contralto Julie Comparini. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Watershed Ailís Ní Ríain CMC Composer Page ailis.info Yonit Kosovske Julie Comparini Jessica Brown And Say amplify episode #60 amplify episode #59 Music All music taken from Ailís Ní Ríain's Watershed performed by Yonit Kosovske and Julie Comparini. Listen to and purchase the album here. Please consider subscribing to our podcast here and if you’re already a subscriber leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Production and editing: Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell
	15 May 2020	Amanda Feery, Lina Andonovska, Scott Mc Laughlin and Áine Mallon - amplify #20	00:50:22
Episode 20 of CMC’s podcast features a conversation with Amanda Feery and Lina Andonovska about their new recording, ‘The Scolds’, Scott Mc Laughlin on his current projects and composing during lockdown, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer Áine Mallon. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Lina Andonovska Amanda Feery Scott Mc Laughlin Lina Andonovska - A Way A Lone A Last amplify #1 - Amanda Feery amplify #12 - live from New Music Dublin Scold’s bridle Composer Lab 2016 - interview with Scott Mc Laughlin Tectonics Festival Garden of Forking Paths United Bible Studies Murmansk CMC Emerging Composer Scheme CMC Emerging Composer Scheme 2020 announcement Áine Mallon Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Scott Mc Laughlin - a particular constellation of openings and closures, 0:02, 36:44 Amanda Feery - The Scolds (Lina Andonovska) Scott Mc Laughlin - Repetitions and Variations Transform One Another Scott Mc Laughlin - Abrash (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Scott Mc Laughlin - Duet (Heather Roche, Jonathan Sage) Scott Mc Laughlin - Threads of the Social Scott Mc Laughlin - The whole is encountered (Christopher Williams) Áine Mallon - Flotsam (Piatti Quartet), 39:12, 49:24 Áine Mallon - Dum Transisset Sabbatum (ORA Singers)
	24 Apr 2020	Linda Buckley on the challenge of composing during the Covid-19 Pandemic	00:37:11
Episode 17 features Glasgow-based Irish composer Linda Buckley in conversation with Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. The episode includes an introduction to a playlist of pieces by Irish composers, specially selected for the podcast by Linda Buckley. Show Notes Linda Buckley CMC Covid–19 policy initiatives CMC Covid–19 Survey CMC Through the Digital Door series: Trombone / horn; Clarinet; Violin Music Linda Buckley - Chiyo Linda Buckley - Torann, 4:02, 36:02 Linda Buckley - Revelavit, 10:23, 29:19 Linda Buckley - Oscillate Linda Buckley / Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street Seán Clancy - and then you smiled Crevice - Anita’s Altar Linda Buckley - Vespers Maria Somerville - Undoing Slow Moving Clouds - Os Linda Buckley - O Iochtar Mara Linda Buckley - White Light MMOTHS - Verbena Andrew Hamilton - In airde High up Linda Buckley’s Playlist Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street Seán Clancy - and then you smiled Linda Buckley - Vespers Maria Somerville - Undoing MMOTHS - Verbena Sorcha de Róiste - Aisling Gheal Crevice - Anita’s Altar Andrew Hamilton - In airde / High up
	12 Apr 2021	amplify #39 - pianist Michael McHale	00:26:04
Episode 39 features a conversation with pianist Michael McHale about his work and upcoming online concert for Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘We Sing for the Future’ which takes place from 14–18 April 2021. Show notes Michael McHale We Sing for the Future Festival Laurence Crane Music Garrett Sholdice - Am Koppenplatz Cornelius Cardew - The Croppy Boy Arvo Part - Hymn to a Great City Simon O’Connor - Self Portrait Áine Mallon - Raindrops Prelude Philip Hammond - Midnight Shadows Philip Hammond - Piano Concerto (Mov 3) Garrett Sholdice - Piano Concerto My Lagan Love (arr Michael McHale)
	07 Oct 2021	amplify #48 - composers David Coonan, Finola Merivale and Centre Culturel Irlandais director Nora Hickey M'Sichili on the centre's composer residency in Paris	00:49:46
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)
	03 Jun 2022	amplify #68 - New Music Dublin 2022: Choral Sketches, Crash Works and Ergodos Records	00:41:44
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
	08 Mar 2020	Music by Jennifer Walshe, Anna Murray and Jenn Kirby for International Women's Day 2020 - amplify #11	00:16:29
A special episode for International Women's Day, featuring recordings of works by Jennifer Walshe, Anna Murray and Jenn Kirby from their recent albums, introduced by the composers. Music Jennifer Walshe - Hildegard von Bingen: In Principio Omnes, from Ordo Virtutum Anna Murray - Rndr7 (Moon) (extract) Jenn Kirby - Smart Music Featured albums Jennifer Walshe - A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1 Anna Murray - Rndr II Jenn Kirby - Machine Being
	06 Nov 2020	amplify #28 - Ed Bennett and Karen Power	00:35:25
Episode 28 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with composers about two recent album releases. Ed Bennett’s ‘Psychedelia’ on NMC Recordings, and Karen Power’s ‘Human Nature’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here Ed Bennett: Psychedelia (NMC Records) Karen Power: Human Nature Ed Bennett Composer web site CMC page Karen Power Composer web site CMC page CMC Salon - Ian Wilson ‘Wild is the wind’ album launch Wild is the wind - Diatribe Records Music Please consider supporting the artists and labels by purchasing these releases Opening Ed Bennett - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra) Karen Power - train to Machu Picchu Karen Power All tracks from Human Nature - loved bees (Anne-Marie O’Farrell) - underwater frogs of Angkor Wat (Thomas Buckner) - train to Machu Picchu (Johnny Chang) - Amazonian frogs (Seth Josel) - if trees had bellies (Jane Rigler) - seals off the Namibian shipwreck coast (Ute Wassermann) - monkeys + ‘waterbird’ of the Amazon (Loré Lixenberg) - bats of Namibia (John Godfrey) - beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb (Rishin Singh) - sirens of New York (Samuel Stoll) Ed Bennett All tracks from Psychedelia - Organ Grinder (Orkest de Ereprijs) - Freefalling (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) - Song of the Books: III (Kate Ellis, Decibel) - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra) - Song of the Books: II (Kate Ellis, Decibel) - Magnetic (Jack McNeill, Eliza McCarthy)
	13 May 2022	amplify #67 - amplify live at New Music Dublin: George Higgs, Music for 5 Silent Poems	00:51:38
The second of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion with George Higgs and live performance of his multisensory piece ‘Music for 5 Silent Poems’, a work commissioned by New Music Dublin for live and online performance via Instagram. Show Notes New Music Dubin Music for 5 Silent Poems George Higgs georgehiggs.com CMC Composer Page Watch the live performance on Instagram (from 15 mins onwards) Music Music for 5 Silent Poems performed live by George Higgs (sampler), Jessica Kennedy (sign language poems), Billy O’Brien (piano), Rossa O’Neil (trombone), Brian Kelly (double bass) Live recording: Keith Fennell Editing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes
	08 Jun 2023	amplify #88 - Garrett Sholdice on his new album 'The Blue Light'	00:30:19
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 lächeln (Michael McHale) Garrett Sholdice - St Dunstan-in-the-East (Michael McHale, Crash Ensemble)
	07 Nov 2019	New music and public broadcasting with composer Jürgen Simpson, and a Lifetime Achievement Award for John Kinsella - amplify #2 (7 November 2019)	00:42:42
The second episode of the Contemporary Music Centre's fortnightly podcast features a conversation recorded in Limerick with composer Jürgen Simpson on new music and broadcasting; as well as marking John Kinsella’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Concert Hall, Dublin ahead of the premiere of his 11th Symphony later this month. The episode is presented by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes. Subscribe to the Podcast here. Recording and production - Keith Fennell Editing - Jonathan Grimes / Jürgen Simpson Show Notes Jürgen Simpson https://www.cmc.ie/composers/jurgen-simpson Music John Kinsella - Symphony No. 6, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, John Kinsella Orchestral Works - 00:31 Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 03:44 Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 06:41 Jürgen Simpson - Sigilum - 16:22 Jürgen Simpson - Air India [redacted] - 25:15 Gráinne Mulvey - Aeolus - 27:45 Roger Doyle - Orange Moonlamp - 31:22 journalofmusic.com/focus/lyric-fm-needs-new-vision-not-more-cuts www.cmc.ie/news/10242019–1037/john-kinsella-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-national-concert-hall crosscurrents.ie
	15 Oct 2022	amplify #73 - Timothy Cape, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, and Ryan Molloy	00:49:07
CMC’s podcast on new Irish music returns featuring conversations with composer Timothy Cape about his work and recent premiere at the Venice Biennale, flautist Aisling Agnew and Chilean journalist and composer Alvaro Gallegos on Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble’s recent concert in Chile, and composer Ryan Molloy on attending the ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Timothy Cape CMC composer page Angela Wai-Nok Hui labiennale.org Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Musicahora Festival ISCM Ryan Molloy CMC composer page Music Timothy Cape - Still Drowsy (Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, ARS LUDI) Timothy Cape - Sorry for the late reply Greg Caffrey - Tout (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell) John Buckley - Solo Fantasias (Aisling Agnew) Jane O’Leary - eather headed, frail, summoning (after Syrinx) (Aisling Agnew, Daniel Browell) Ryan Molloy - Ogham (Christchurch Youth Orchestra, conductor Helen Renaud)
	14 Jun 2022	amplify #69 - New Music Dublin 2022: Amanda Feery on Creative Lab and Sam Perkin on his work for Crash Ensemble 'Children in the Universe'	00:23:17
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)
	31 Oct 2022	amplify #74 - Anne-Marie O'Farrell's 'Who'd Ever Think it Would Come to This?'	00:34:49
An episode featuring conversations with some of the creative team behind composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell’s cantata based on material from UCD Archives on the Irish Civil War. Featuring contributions from the composer, Principal Archivist at UCD Archives Kate Manning, the work’s librettist Ed Vulliamy, and Kellie Hughes. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes Civil War Cantata Anne Marie O’Farrell CMC composer page UCD Archives Ed Vulliamy Music All excerpts taken from premiere recording of Who’d Ever Think it Would Come to This? at O’Reilly Hall, UCD on 30 September 2022. Colette Delahunt (Soprano), Sharon Carty (Mezzo), Dean Power (Tenor) and Rory Musgrave (Baritone), Resurgam (Artistic Director Mark Dulley), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Ciarán Crilly. Recording by RTÉ lyric fm.
	11 Oct 2024	amplify #112 - Composer Lab 2024	00:26:31
This week’s podcast features conversations recorded during the workshop of Composer Lab, a professional development initiative from CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra aimed at composers who have had limited opportunities to write for symphony orchestra. Jonathan Grimes speaks to the participating composers Amelia Clarkson, Barry O’Halpin, Finola Merivale, and Yue Song, as well as Composer Lab mentor David Fennessy and workshop conductor Gavin Maloney. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Composer Lab public workshop Amelia Clarkson CMC Composer Page Barry O’Halpin CMC Composer Page Yue Song CMC Composer Page Pastures at Malahide Finola Merivale CMC Composer Page Music All music recorded during the Composer Lab workshop on 16 September 2024 by the National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney
	18 Dec 2020	amplify #32 - Gerald Barry, Seán Clancy, Raymond Deane, Eric Egan and Jane O'Leary on Beethoven	00:33:49
To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, this week’s amplify podcast features composers Gerald Barry, Seán Clancy, Raymond Deane, Eric Egan and Jane O’Leary on Beethoven’s influence and inspiration behind some of their works. The episode also features extracts from Beethoven’s letters read by Bernard Clarke. Show Notes Gerald Barry CMC Composer Page Schott Music Seán Clancy CMC Composer Page Composer web site Raymond Deane CMC Composer Page Composer web site Eric Egan Jane O’Leary Music Beethoven - Emperor Concerto (Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Firkusny) Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble) Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Daniel Barenboim) Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 (Emil Gilels) Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney) Jane O’Leary - The Passing of Sound Forever (ConTempo Quartet) Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 (Emerson String Quartet) Gerald Barry - Schott and Sons, Mainz (Stephen Richardson, Chamber Choir Ireland) Gerald Barry - Mrs Streicher (Gavan Ring, Stephen Irvine) Gerald Barry - Stockhausen (1928–2007) (Barbara Hannigan, Juoko Laivuori) Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in a minor, Op 132 (Alban Berg Quartet Eric Egan - … a thing glimpsed … (Trondheim Sinfonietta) Seán Clancy - Neue Kraft Fühlend (Bozzini Quartet) Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney) Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble) Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell Thanks to Bernard Clarke* for reading the letters, to Jane O’Leary for her help in selecting and sourcing the letters, CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan for her research into*
	06 May 2022	amplify #66 - amplify live at New Music Dublin - Joyce and new music	00:44:59
The first of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion on Joyce and new music and CMC’s Ulysses Journey Project with composers Benjamin Dwyer and Frank Corcoran, and CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren. The episode was recorded at the National Concert Hall on 29 April. Show Notes New Music Dubin Benjamin Dwyer benjamindwyer.com CMC Composer Page Frank Corcoran frankcorcoran.com CMC Composer Page Ulysses Journey amplify #59 Music Frank Corcoran - Quasi Una Missa Live recording: Keith Fennell Editing: Keith Fennell, Jonathan Grimes
	31 May 2024	amplify #107 - Linda Buckley on her new work, Tuile agus Trá for Iarla Ó Lionáird and the National Symphony Orchestra	00:20:48
Back in April, as New Music Dublin 2024 was approaching, Evonne Ferguson sat down for a chat with Linda Buckley and Iarla Ó Lionáird to discuss Tuile agus Trá, a new work for the National Symphony Orchestra composed by Linda and dedicated to the memory of her mother, Mary Buckley. Show Notes Linda Buckley CMC Composer page Iarla Ó Lionáird Doireann Ní Ghríofa National Symphony Orchestra New Music Dublin National Concert Hall The Creative Space @ CMC Tuile agus Trá premiered on the 26 April in the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2024. It was broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm for a special episode of RTÉ lyric Live co-presented by Paul Herriott and John Harris. You can listen to the full broadcast here. Tuile agus Trá was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and New Music Dublin. Episode Credits Presented by Evonne Ferguson Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell Show NotesEpisode Credits
	31 Mar 2023	amplify #83 - amplify LIVE at Finding a Voice	00:40:50
A discussion recorded during this year’s Finding a Voice festival in Clonmel featuring composers Jacqueline Fletcher, Áine Mallon and Gráinne Mulvey. This discussion, which took place on 11 March 2023, is introduced and chaired by CMC Director, Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Finding a Voice Festival Áine Mallon CMC Composer Page Gráinne Mulvey Jacqueline Fletcher wins Finding a Voice 2023 Emerging Composer Competition
	26 Mar 2021	amplify #38 - Norah Walsh on winning the 2021 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition and Ryan Molloy on his work with traditional music and his new album, 'tempered'	00:44:31
Episode 38 of CMC’s forthnighly podcast features conversations with composer and conductor Norah Walsh, recently announced as the winner of the 2021 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition, and composer, pianist and lecturer Ryan Molloy, whose new album ‘tempered’ for uilleann pipes and piano was released in February. Show notes Norah Walsh CMC composer page Norah Walsh wins Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition Peter Sirr (poet) Mellow Tonics Choir Music Her (Edel Shannon, Sinead Conway, Norah Walsh) The Shoe Box Coffin (Mellow Tonics) Ryan Molloy ryanmolloy.ie CMC composer page Bandcamp Soundcloud Music Gealán - Concerto for Irish Harp and Orchestra (Anne-Marie O’Farrell, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney) Sliabh Geal gCua (Alexander Bernstein) for Morton O’Leary (Ryan Molloy) Gealach Chríoch Lochlann (Danish String Quartet) Hop Jigs (Ryan Molloy) Easter Snow (slow air) & Sally Gally (jig) (Padraig McGovern, Ryan Molloy) The Rocky Road to Dublin & Dusty Miller (hop jigs) (Sheila Friel, Ryan Molloy) Luasc (Irish Chamber Orchestra)
	26 Jun 2020	amplify #23 - Judith Ring and Roger Doyle	00:51:04
Episode 23 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Judith Ring on her work and dealing with a creative slump during lockdown, and Roger Doyle on his second electronic opera, ‘iGirl’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Judith Ring Roger Doyle CMC Salon 2 - Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu CMC Salon 3 - Michelle O’Rourke NCFA launches 13-Point Plan Clonmel Junction Arts Festival - I Oedipus by Roger Doyle Marina Carr Scenes from iGIRL Trish McAdam Music Roger Doyle - Blood on Their Hands Judith Ring My one’s bigger than yours (Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson) Wildwood: Invisible Scampers (Martin Johnson) [live recording] Mouthpiece (Michelle O’Rourke, Natasha Lohan) Up to my f-holes (Kate Ellis) Accumulation A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska) Swelt belly at dawn (Concorde), Solo set at Valentia Island (2018) Swelt belly at dawn Roger Doyle Roger Doyle on Bandcamp Overture to iGirl I Girl of the Cursed Breasts I Oedipus I Joanne D’arc
	28 May 2021	amplify #44 - Benjamin Dwyer on concertos by Raymond Deane, Jane O'Leary and Kevin Volans	00:32:20
This week’s podcast features a new occasional series, where with the help of expert guests, we take a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past. For the first episode in the series, composer, guitarist and Professor of Music at Middlesex University, London Benjamin Dwyer takes a look at concerto works by Raymond Deane, Jane O’Leary, and Kevin Volans. Show notes Benjamin Dwyer CMC Composer Page benjamindwyer.com/ amplify 18 Raymond Deane CMC Composer Page raymonddeane.com/ Kevin Volans CMC Composer Page Publisher page Music Benjamin Dwyer - Guitar Concerto No. 1 for Guitar and Strings (Benjamin Dwyer, Irish Chamber Orchestra) Benjamin Dwyer - Concerto No. 2 for Guitar and Orchestra (Fabio Zanon, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor William Eddins.) Raymond Deane - Concerto for Oboe and Large Orchestra (Matthew Manning, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce) CMC Library Record Kevin Volans - Concerto for Uilleann Pipes and Orchestra (Gol Na mBan San Ár) (David Power, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) Jane O’Leary - string alive (Jane O’Leary,RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Houlihan)
	19 Jul 2024	amplify #110 - TERRAIN	00:22:27
An episode featuring a live panel discussion from Northern Ireland's newest contemporary music festival, TERRAIN in the Accidental Theatre, Belfast featuring Aisling Agnew, Lina Andanovska and Ian Wilson. Presented by Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Aisling Agnew Lina Andanovska Ian Wilson CMC Composer page Music All music featured in this episode was performed live at TERRAIN Music Festival on 18 May 2024 Improvisation 1 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (Drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax) A Winter Sketchbook - Jane O'Leary - Aisling Agnew (flute) & Petcu-Colan (violin) Improvisation 2 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax) 'Vigour, Rigour, Jigger' - Greg Caffrey - David McCann (cello) Episode Credits Chief Sound Engineer: Martin Price Sound Technician: Peter Cunningham Podcast Recording: Emma Bainbridge Editing: Keith Fennell
	22 Mar 2022	amplify #63 - CMC Scholar-in-Residence pianist Aileen Cahill introduces a playlist selected to mark this year's International Women's Day	00:08:00
Pianist Aileen Cahill shares three recordings from Anna Murray, Gráinne Mulvey and Linda Buckley from a recent playlist, entitled ‘Mná in Music’, which she curated for International Women’s Day. Show Notes Aileen Cahill - CMC Scholar-in-Residence 2022 Listen to the full playlist Music Jane O’Leary - Palette of Preludes (Aileen Cahill) Anna Murray - Azuma-asobi /東遊 Grainne Mulvey - Steel Grey Splinters (Isabelle O’Connell) Also available on commercial release* here* Linda Buckley - Numarimur (Elizabeth Hilliard) Also available on commercial release here
	08 May 2020	amplify #19 - Dave Flynn on his current musical focus and Karen Power on performing over the Internet	00:48:24
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)
	12 Jul 2022	amplify #71 - David Bremner's new opera, 'Slow Recognition'	00:24:25
Conversations with some of the people involved in Beál’s production of ‘Slow Recognition’, a new chamber opera by David Bremner, director Hélène Montague and designer John Comiskey which premieres this month at Unit 44 in Stoneybatter, Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the episode features contributions from David Bremner, Hélène Montague, and singers Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Rory Musgrave and Elizabeth Hilliard. Show Notes Slow Recognition, 13–16 July 2022 Unit 44 (Kirkos Ensemble) Beál David Bremner davidbremner.net CMC Composer Page Naomi Louisa O’Connell Rory Musgrave Elizabeth Hilliard
	27 Sep 2024	amplify #111 - Rhona Clarke and Eric Skytterholm Egan at the ISCM World New Music Days 2024	00:17:18
CMC’s podcast on artists active in New Music in Ireland returns with interviews recorded with two of the featured Irish composers at this year’s ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. Recorded in June, the episode features conversations with composers Eric Skytterholm Egan and Rhona Clarke. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes ISCM World New Music Days 2024 ISCM Eric Skytterholm Egan CMC Composer Page Rhona Clarke CMC Composer Page Music Eric Skytterholm Egan - in some or other Oasis (2014 rev. 2023) (Lapland Chamber Orchestra), live performance at Tórshavn Music School, Tórshavn, Faroe Island, 24 June 2024. Video of concert available here. Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (2020) (ARS NOVA Copenhagen, conductor Graham Ross), live performance at The Nordic House in Tórshavn, 29 June 2024. Video of concert available here.
	02 Dec 2020	amplify #30 - Library Ireland Week and Francis Heery on his project 'Animal Faith'	00:35:38
This week’s podcast marks the Library Association of Ireland’s annual Library Ireland Week. CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan talks about recent digitisation projects in CMC’s library and selects some of the recordings that have been digitised. Also featured is a conversation with composer Francis Heery about his project ‘Animal Faith’ which researches the intersections between bioacoustics and composition. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Through the Digital Door: Library Ireland Week 2020 Heritage Council/An Chomhairle Oidhreachta Community Heritage grant has been awarded to CMC Francis Heery francisheery.com CMC composer page Music Francis Heery - Callows CMC Library Coordinator, Susan Brodigan Joan Trimble - Suite for Strings Eric Sweeney - Musique pour mes Amis (Danish Wind Quartet), Recorded at November 1997 in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle Raymond Deane - Marche Oublieé (Schubert Ensemble),recorded in February 1997 at Skerries Community Centre, Co. Dublin, Donnacha Dennehy - Pluck, Stroke and Hammer (Hugh Tinney, Vanbrugh Quartet), recorded in 1997 at St Patrick’s Hall in Dublin Castle Francis Heery Francis Heery - Lebensraum Morton Feldman - String Quartet No. 1 Francis Heery - Quinta Francis Heery - Callows Francis Heery - Uexkell
	29 Jun 2023	amplify #91 - Sylvia O'Brien on Seóirse Bodley at 90	00:36:37
Marking composer Seóirse Bodley’s recent 90th birthday, amplify features a conversation with soprano Sylvia O’Brien about her collaboration with Bodley, and his approach to writing for voice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Seóirse Bodley Sylvia O’Brien Music Seóirse Bodley - St Kevin and the Blackbird from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Isabelle O’Connell), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2023 Seóirse Bodley - Squall (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2007 Seóirse Bodley - The Naked Flame (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2007 Seóirse Bodley - At Banagher from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013 Seóirse Bodley - At Banagher from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Isabelle O’Connell), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2023 Seóirse Bodley - Postscript from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013 Seóirse Bodley - Cavafy from ‘The Hiding Places of Love’ (Sylvia O’Brien, Seóirse Bodley), Hugh Lane Gallery, April 2013
	10 Mar 2023	amplify #82 - Deirdre Gribbin on composing for film	00:36:02
Composer Deirdre Gribbin talks to Jonathan Grimes about composing music for the film documentary, ‘Stolen’, writing her new cello concerto, the importance of narrative in her music, and her thoughts on the plight of women composers today. Show Notes Deirdre Gribbin CMC Composer Page Music Deirdre Gribbin - Hearing your Genes Evolve (Spero Quartet), live recording from the Hugh Lane Gallery, 26 February 2023 Deirdre Gribbin - music from the film Stolen (director Margo Harkin) Deirdre Gribbin - extract from Embers, a radio drama starring Patrick Stewart adapted and directed by Lou Stein from a BBC Radio 3 Drama production by Lou Stein Associates Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Song (Fidelio Trio), NMC Recordings
	06 Dec 2022	amplify #77 - Neil O'Connor, Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin	00:37:30
Episode 77 features conversations with composer Neil Martin and pianist Ruth McGinley about their album ‘Aura’, a collection of Irish airs written and arranged by Neil Martin, and Neil O’Connor AKA Ordnance Survey on his latest release ‘Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Neil Martin CMC Composer Page Ruth McGinley Neil O’Connor CMC Composer Page 20:31 - Spectrogram of a violin playing a note and then a perfect fifth above it with the shared partials highlighted by the white dashes (harmonic spectra) Music Neil O’Connor - Bog Braon Aura - Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin Nomos: Ó Riada Reimagined - Neil O’Connor Production and editing - Keith Fennell
	27 Mar 2020	Sound artist Ed Devane on live streaming music events during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Brian Irvine's Totally Made Up Orchestra, and music by John McLachlan, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny	00:42:38
Episode 14 of CMC’s podcast features an interview with sound artist and instrument designer Ed Devane on live streaming and the use of technology in creating and sharing music, composer Brian Irvine on his Totally Made Up Orchestra, and recent music from John McLachlan, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie Show Notes John McLachlan Soundcloud Covid–19 update from CMC Covid–19 survey Ed Devane Plastic Brian Irvine Ed Devane Instagram Helmholtz Challenge Izumi Kimura Cora Venus Lunny Field Recording Project Farpoint Recordings Totally Made Up Orchestra Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music John McLachlan - Segue 1 Devane / Parmar ISSTA Cork 2019 Ed Devane - The Strolling Zither Izumi Kimura - Storm Emma, Above and Below
	17 May 2024	amplify #106 - Brian Irvine on his new work for Stone Drawn Circles, 'A Call to Arms'	00:14:46
A conversation with composer Brian Irvine, recorded during last month’s New Music Dublin festival. Brian’s work ‘A Call to Arms’ was premiered by Stone Drawn Circles and he speaks to Jonathan Grimes about the background to the work and composing for the group. Show Notes Brian Irivine CMC Composer Page Stone Drawn Cirles Recorded and presented by Jonathan Grimes.
	30 Apr 2021	amplify #41 - New Music Dublin Part 2	00:23:40
In a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April, CMC talks to some of the composers, musicians and other key people involved in the festival. In this episode, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes speak to composers Natasa Paulberg, Anselm McDonnell, and Deirdre McKay, New Music Dublin festival director John Harris, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Earlsfort Brass Quintet horn player, Cormac Ó hAodáin, and RTÉ Concert Orchestra General Manager Joe Csibi. Show notes New Music Dublin Natasa Paulberg Anselm McDonnell CMC Composer Page Cormac Ó hAodáin RTÉ Concert Orchestra Deirdre McKay Music Natasa Paulberg - Atomic Hope (RTÉ Concert Orchestra) Anselm McDonnell - Cross Purposes (Crash Ensemble)) Anselm McDonnell - Rasp (Earlsfort Brass Quintet) Deirdre McKay Postcards from a Fragile Planet (Laura Bowler - voice, Ruth Morley - flute)
	08 May 2024	amplify #103 - Ultan O'Brien performs at CMC's New Music Dublin Exchange	00:13:55
A performance from composer, fiddle and viola player Ultan O’Brien, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited. Show Notes Ultan O’Brien New Music Dublin Exchange Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell. CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for its funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
	24 Nov 2022	amplify #76 - new music::new Ireland Four launch	00:36:01
amplify #76 - new music::new Ireland Four launch Recorded at this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, episode 76 includes conversations with some of the artists on CMC’s new promotional album, new music::new Ireland Four. Featuring flautist Lina Andonovska, composers Rhona Clarke, Anselm McDonnell, and Ian Wilson, the episode also includes an interview with hcmf Artistic Director Graham McKenzie on the festival’s three-year partnership with Culture Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes new music::new Ireland four Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - hcmf Ulysses Journey 2022 at hcmf Stephen Graham Anselm McDonnell Lina Andonovska Rhona Clarke Ian Wilson Music Nick Roth - A Loved A Long (Lina Andonovska) Anselm McDonnell - Engines of Babel (Crash Ensemble) Judith Ring - A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska) Rhona Clarke - Seen from Above (Adam Walker (fl), Hélène Clément (viola), Agnès Clément (harp) Ian Wilson - Wild is the Wind (Gareth Davis (bass clarinet)
	20 Oct 2021	amplify #50 - interviews with Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond for City of Derry International Choir Festival	00:48:26
Episode 50 of CMC's podcast 'amplify' features a special episode produced for the 2021 City of Derry International Choir Festival. Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson speak to Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond, two of the Irish composers whose work is programmed in this year's festival. Show notes City of Derry International Choir Festival 2021 programme 2021 podcast programme Eoghan Desmond eoghandesmond.com CMC composer page Elaine Agnew elaineagnew.com CMC composer page Remarkable Project Music Eoghan Desmond Oxen of the Sun (UCD Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley) Thomas Morley - Nolo mortem peccatoris Bach - Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 No.1 The Morningstar (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier) This is My Prayer to Thee (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley) Mother Goose’s Melodies (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier) Amra Choluim Chille – A Dheascabháil agus a Shaol (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley) Elaine Agnew I am a Miracle (European Union Chamber Orchestra, St Colman’s College Choir, conductor Elaine Agnew) The God of Rain (RTÉ Cór na nÓg, Mary Amond O’Brien) Remarkable (Remarkable Voices, Codetta, Ulster Orchestra, Donal Doherty) Child Within (Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Bernie Sherlock) Turnabout (Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir and Belfast Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lynsey Callaghan)
	13 Jul 2020	amplify #24 - Crash Ensemble CEO Neva Elliott McGinley and conductor Sineád Hayes	00:53:23
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
	13 Jun 2023	amplify #89 - Eliza McCarthy, Ryan McAdams and Donnacha Dennehy on his new piano concerto, Limina	00:12:49
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
	03 Feb 2023	amplify #80 - Roger Doyle and Linda Buckley	00:36:54
amplify returns with the first episode of 2023. Featuring Roger Doyle on his work and his recent album, ‘Finnegans Wake - Suite Of Affections Volume 2’, and a conversation recorded in Cork last December with Linda Buckley on her new work for the Ficino String Quartet, ‘Circuit Bend’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes Roger Doyle CMC Composer Page Roger Doyle - Bandcamp Finnegans Wake - Suite of Affections Volume 2 New Music::New Ireland 4 Linda Buckley CMC Composer Page Ficino Quartet - Triskel National String Quartet Foundation Music Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell) Roger Doyle - Dreamwings Folded (instrumental) Roger Doyle - Is That The Poolbeg Flasher Roger Doyle - Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth Roger Doyle - Nova Nuvoletta (instrumental) Roger Doyle - Recess Roger Doyle - This The Way To The Museyroom Roger Doyle - Jymes Wishes To Hear Roger Doyle - And Can it Be Linda Buckley - Circuit Bend (Ficino Quartet), recorded live on 11 December 2023, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall Linda Buckley - Fridur (Isabelle O’Connell)
	21 Mar 2024	amplify #100 - We Only Want the Earth	00:22:18
Show Notes We Only Want the Earth Listen to episode 1 Article about the series on RTÉ Culture Robert Coleman and Larissa O’Grady - Capturing Sound Judith Ring CMC Composer Page Larissa O’Grady
	31 May 2023	amplify #87 - New Music Dublin 2023: Choral Sketches, Áine Mallon, Ailís Ní Ríain, and Elizabeth Hilliard	00:24:13
The first of two episodes with conversations recorded with some of the artists who featured in this year’s New Music Dublin festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson, the episode includes interviews from CMC and Chamber Choir Ireland’s Choral Sketches workshop, composers Áine Mallon and Ailís Ní Ríain, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. Show Notes Ailís Ní Ríain: The Last Time I Died (NMC Recordings) New Music Dublin Choral Sketches 2023 Áine Mallon CMC Composer Page Ailís Ní Ríain CMC Composer Page Elizabeth Hilliard Music Ailís Ní Ríain - Seahorse (Long snouted) All other music from Choral Sketches workshop and Chamber Choir Ireland Concert at New Music Dublin Editing: Keith Fennell
	22 Dec 2021	amplify #54 - 2021 highlights and reflections: Linda Buckley	00:10:50
To mark the end of 2021, we invite a number of guests to choose some of their musical highlights of the year. For the first of these mini episodes, composer Linda Buckley talks about some of the pieces she had premiered during the year and, through hindsight, how her experiences of lockdown restrictions have influenced some of these works. Show Notes Linda Buckley lindabuckley.org CMC Composer Page West Wicklow Festival Performance of ‘The Finite Air’ at the West Wicklow Festival by Rachel Kelly and Fiachra Garvey Nordic Viola Ghost in the Throat live show Roisin Imagined Linda Buckley elected to Aosdána Music Exploding Stars (Darragh Morgan) from the album ‘From Ocean’s Floor’, NMC Recordings The Finite Air (Rachel Kelly (voice), Fiachra Garvey (piano) Aud (Nordic Viola) Ghost in the Throat
	13 Jul 2023	amplify #92 - Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble's Greg Caffrey and Aisling Agnew	00:19:36
Recorded in Belfast just before the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble’s final 2022/23 season concert, Jonathan Grimes talks to the group’s outgoing Artistic Director Greg Caffrey and flautist and Concerts Manager Aisling Agnew about the ensemble’s first 10 years. Show Notes Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Greg Caffrey CMC web site Music With the exception of the opening music, all music is taken from the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble’s concert at the Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast on 16 June 2023 Jane O’Leary - Beneath the Dark Blue Waves (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) Rhona Clarke - Non-stop (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022 Gráinne Mulvey - LUCA (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022 John Buckley - Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), Harty Room, Queen’s University, 16 June 2022
	16 Jul 2021	amplify #47 - audio reflections from Roger Doyle, Judith Ring, Isabelle O’Connell, John McLachlan, Frank Corcoran, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Jenn Kirby	00:38:24
In the final episode of the current series, we hear a selection of audio reflections from some composers and musicians on the past year. Roger Doyle, Judith Ring, Isabelle O’Connell, John McLachlan, Frank Corcoran, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Jenn Kirby all provide insights into their creative lives over the past 15 months and look ahead to the future. Show notes Roger Doyle rogerdoyle.com/ CMC composer page Judith Ring judithring.com CMC composer page John McLachlan johnmclachlan.org CMC composer page Frank Corcoran frankcorcoran.com CMC composer page Anne-Marie O’Farrell annemarieofarrell CMC composer page Music Jenn Kirby - Awake Roger Doyle - Obstinato Roger Doyle - The Sea Would Not Have Us from iGirl Judith Ring - Is It Over Yet? (Lina Andonovska) Judith Ring - The Wood Between the Worlds (Martin Johnson) Judith Ring - Solo set Valentia Island 2018 Andrew Hamilton - O.A.I.R. (Isabelle O’Connell) John McLachlan - Vela X John McLachlan - Fanfaron John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana) Frank Corcoran - Rhapsodic Bowing for 8 Celli (Martin Johnson, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Frank Corcoran - Nine Looks at Pierrot (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble) Anne-Marie O’Farrell - Eitilt (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Jenn Kirby - Awake Jenn Kirby - Arlene Solo
	19 Nov 2021	amplify #52: Garth Knox	00:29:00
Episode 52 features a conversation with composer and violist Garth Knox about his recent work and approach to composing, recorded at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in September. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson and edited by Keith Fennell. Show Notes Choral Sketches Malachy Robinson - The Irish Double Bass John Kinsella RIP Garth Knox garthknox.org CMC composer page Finding the source exhibition at Centre Culturel Irlandais September Me festival Quartet for One for Lawrence Power Lockdown Blues Viola Spaces Music Viola Spaces Duo no. 5 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) D’amore vespers (Garth Knox) Quartet for One (Lawrence Power) Lockdown Blues (Ragazze Quartet) Viola Spaces Duo no. 1 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) Viola Spaces Duo no. 4 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox) Air and Ground (Garth Knox, Concorde)
	27 Dec 2021	amplify #58 - 2021 highlights and reflections: Greg Caffrey	00:11:01
The final episode in amplify’s mini series featuring highlights and reflections on 2021. Composer and artistic director of Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Greg Caffrey talks to CMC’s Jonathan Grimes about the group’s debut album, ‘A Terrible Beauty’. Show Notes Greg Caffrey gregcaffrey.com CMC Composer Page Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Music All music taken from Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble album A Terrible Beauty Grainne Mulvey - Luca Amy Rooney - Phosphenes Greg Caffrey - A Terrible Beauty
	23 Dec 2024	amplify #116 - Ian Wilson in conversation with Tim Rutherford-Johnson live from CMC	00:36:56
CMC celebrated the 60th Birthday of composer, Ian Wilson in CMC on December 4 2024, with an evening of music and discussion. 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). Show Notes 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. Music 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) Episode Credits Recording and editing: Keith Fennell Introduction: Jonathan Grimes
	14 Jun 2024	amplify #108 - Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea on Gerald Barry's violin and piano music	00:13:03
Jonathan Grimes talks to violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea about recording and performing Gerald Barry’s music. The conversation was recorded at the 2024 New Music Dublin Festival, and also features extracts from their 2022 album of the composer’s works ‘In the Asylum’. Show Notes Darragh Morgan Mary Dullea Gerald Barry CMC Composer Page Gerald Barry in Focus at New Music Dublin 2024 Music All music taken from the album In the Asylum, Mode Records Baroness von Ritkart: 1 - Clever, noble, but not talented, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano) Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio Midday, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano) 1998, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano) Le Vieux Sourd, (Mary Dullea, piano) Recorded, presented and produced by Jonathan Grimes.
	04 Apr 2024	amplify #101 - Anselm McDonnell on his new release, Kraina	00:17:55
In this episode, we hear from Anselm McDonnell about his new release, Kraina, an album drawing on the themes of home and displacement. Show Notes Anselm McDonnell (CMC Composer Page) This interview was recorded on location by Evonne Ferguson at Queen's University, Belfast on 22 March 2024. It was recorded before the launch of Kraina which took place on the same date in the Harty Room in Queen's University, presented by CMC in partnership with Moving On Music, Belfast. The launch featured a performance by Cahal Masterson (piano) and Rebecca Murphy (soprano) of works from this new release. Music All music featured is taken from the album, Kraina available to purchase on Bandcamp In order of appearance in the episode: Anselm McDonnell - Kraina I. Jeżeli Porcelana Cahal Masterson - piano Rebecca Murphy - soprano Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer Anselm McDonnell - Kraina II. The House on the Interface Cahal Masterson - piano Rebecca Murphy - soprano Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer Anselm McDonnell - Her Name is Sorrow Dermot Dunne - accordion Joshua Ellicott - tenor Laura Sinnerton - viola Richard Brown - recording engineer Episode Credits Editing: Keith Fennell Recording: Evonne Ferguson and Keith Fennell
	09 May 2024	amplify #104 - Bianca Gannon performs at CMC's New Music Dublin Exchange	00:17:50
A performance from composer and improviser Bianca Gannon, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited. Show Notes Bianca Gannon New Music Dublin Exchange Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for their funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.
	12 Dec 2023	amplify #98 - Live from the James Wilson Centenary Celebration at the Irish Summer School	01:02:16
A very special live podcast event hosted by CMC at this year's Irish Composition Summer School to mark the recent centenary of James Wilson's birth, which took place in 2022, as well as celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Summer School. Show Notes This event featured a programme of works by James Wilson, Martin O'Leary and John Buckley performed by Martin O'Leary (piano) and Patrick Burke (clarinet). The event also included a panel of former students, colleagues and friends of James Wilson including Rhona Clarke, Jane O'Leary, John Buckley, Martin O'Leary and John McLachlan, hosted by CMC's Jonathan Grimes. Recorded live at The Square, Irish Institute of Music & Song, Balbriggan, Dublin. Music Live performances in order of appearance John Buckley Jim Singing (1992) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano) Martin O’Leary Jim’s Air from Jimnopodie (1992) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano) James Wilson Three Play Things for Clarinet (1983) - Performed by Patrick Burke (clarinet) James Wilson Five Preludes for piano Op.87 (1982) - Performed by Martin O’Leary (piano) Further Notes Recording: Paul Lynch Editing and mixing: Keith Fennell
	19 Mar 2020	amplify #13	00:26:52
Episode 13 of CMC’s podcast includes an update on CMC’s working arrangements following the closure of its building to the public in light of the Covid–19 emergency, and a selection of recordings from Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Roger Doyle, Gráinne Mulvey, Ailís Ní Ríain and Garrett Sholdice. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie Show Notes cmc.ie/Covid–19 Fee guidelines for music commissions Ed Bennett Linda Buckley Roger Doyle Gráinne Mulvey Ailís Ní Ríain Garrett Sholdice Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Ed Bennett - Togetherness (excerpt), Decibel Gráinne Mulvey - Awakening Ailís Ní Ríain - Highfalutin (excerpt), Iwona Glinka (flutes) Roger Doyle - Second Oak Linda Buckley - Númarímur (excerpt), Elizabeth Hilliard (voice) Garrett Sholdice - Weihnachtliche Musik / 2013, Garrett Sholdice (piano)
	24 Feb 2022	amplify #60 - Raymond Deane on his recent work for piano quartet 'Vayu Vata'	00:30:10
Episode 60 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features an interview with composer Raymond Deane about his recent work for piano quartet ‘Vayu Vata’. Premiered by the Danish-based Rudersdal Chamber Players in January, the episode also includes a contribution from the group’s violinist Christine Pryn about the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. CMCIreland · amplify #60 - Raymond Deane on his recent work for piano quartet 'Vayu Vata' Show Notes Raymond Deane CMC Composer Page raymonddeane.com YouTube Channel Christine Pryn Rudersdal Chamber Players Prayer for Peace Music Raymond Deane - Violin Concerto (Christine Pryn, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerhard Markson Raymond Deane - Vayu Vata (Rudersdal Chamber Players) Raymond Deane - Oboe Concerto (Matthew Manning, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce) Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2
	14 Nov 2022	amplify #75 - Jane O'Leary, David Fennessy and Matthew Whiteside	00:39:37
Episode 75 features a conversation with Jane O’Leary about her work for piano and orchestra ‘Unfolding Soundscapes’, premiered last month by Finghin Collins and the National Symphony Orchestra, and Matthew Whiteside and David Fennessy on ‘The Night With’ concert in Belfast, which featured a new commission from David Fennessy for the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes The Night With Robinson Panoramic Quartet - Belfast David Fennessy CMC Composer Page Robinson Panoramic Quartet Matthew Whiteside CMC Composer Page Jane O’Leary CMC Composer Page Music Jane O’Leary - Unfolding Soundscapes (Finghin Collins - piano, National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery) David Fennessy - Slate (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022) Matthew Whiteside - Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass (Robinson Panoramic Quartet, The Night With, Belfast - October 2022) Production and editing: Keith Fennell
	18 Jun 2021	amplify #45 - Mark Fitzgerald on Gerald Barry's 'Triumph of Beauty and Deceit'	00:19:13
Continuing with a new occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past, senior lecturer at TU Dublin Mark Fitzgerald talks to CMC’s Jonathan Grimes about Gerald Barry’s 1991–2 opera, ‘Triumph of Beauty and Deceit’. Show notes Mark Fitzgerald Gerald Barry CMC composer page Schott Music page Triumph of Beauty and Deceit CMC Catalogue page Schott Music page Music Gerald Barry - Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Nicholas Clapton (Ct-solo), Denis Lakey (Ct-solo), Richard Edgar-Wilson (T-solo), Adrian Clarke (Bar-solo), Stephen Richardson (B-solo), Composers Ensemble, conductor Diego Masson)
	20 Dec 2023	amplify #99 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival	00:36:21
CMC travelled to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Whilst there we had the great pleasure of interviewing some of Ireland's finest exponents of new music who were performing at the festival. This episode features interviews with Kirkos, Stone Drawn Circles, Jennifer Walshe and Andreas Borregaard Show Notes Music Thank you to the composers, performers, BBC and Music Network for permission to use the recordings featured in this episode. In order of appearance in the episode: Excerpts from Kirkos - Beginner's Guide to Slow Travel (2023) performed and composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly. Recorded live on 21 November at HCMF 2023 by Jonathan Grimes. Excerpt from Karen Power - can you hear me now???? (2019) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC. Excerpt form Úna Monaghan - In Formation (2023) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC. Excerpt from Jennifer Walshe - Oscailt (2023) performed by Jennifer Walshe (vocalist), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Nick Roth (saxophone) and Panos Ghikas (viola/electronics). Recorded live at Riverbank Arts Centre on 20 September 2023 by The Rise Studio. Interviews recorded on location at HCMF 2023 by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes. Editing: Keith Fennell and Jonathan Grimes.
	09 Oct 2020	amplify #26 - Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere and Jennifer Walshe's Ireland: A Dataset	00:31:23
Episode 26 of CMC’s podcast on new music from Ireland and Irish composers features a report from Kirkos Ensemble’s Biosphere series of outdoor events in September, and audio diaries from Jennifer Walshe, Tonnta vocal ensemble members Robbie Blake and Elizabeth Hilliard, and saxophonist Nick Roth on Jennifer Walshe’s recent work ‘Ireland: A Dataset’. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here Biosphere Featuring contributions from composer Tom Lane, Kirkos Director Sebastian Adams, and horn player Hannah Miller Tom Lane Tide Sebastian Adams Tide Quartet Ireland: A Dataset Audio diary contributions from Robbie Blake, Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe Ireland: A Dataset Tonnta Nick Roth CMC page Elizabeth Hilliard Jennifer Walshe CMC page
	08 Dec 2021	amplify #53: Music Current 2021	00:43:11
Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year’s Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O’Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Music Current Fergal Dowling CMC composer page fergaldowling.com Music Current Soloists Neil O’Connor Ordnance Survey - Field Work CMC composer page neiloconnor.org Elis Czerniak Lina Andonovska - Public Privacy Richard Craig Richard Craig - Vale Seán Ó Dálaigh CMC composer page seanodalaigh.com Music Ordnance Survey - Earlsfort Terrace 1991 Neil O’Connor - Frisson / Rapture (Paul Roe, Neil O’Connor)* Elis Czerniak - and the Acceptance of Death (Joe O’Farrell, Paul Roe, Ilse de Ziah)* Ordnance Survey - Belfield May 1985 David Fennessy - Bridge (Lina Andonovska)* Seán Ó Dálaigh - Landscape II (Richard Craig)* Fergal Dowling - Double (Richard Craig)* *Recordings taken from Music Current 2021 festival
	27 Oct 2023	amplify #96 - John McLachlan	00:31:43
Recorded in July of this year, composer John McLachlan talks to Jonathan Grimes about his CMC Composer Residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, his current approach to composing, and his new album of piano music recorded by pianist Mary Dullea. Show Notes John McLachlan CMC Composer page John McLachlan Awarded CMC Residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris Reflections on the residency Drinking the Stars (Farpoint Recordings) Music John McLachlan - December (Winter Music), Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Le dernier bourgeon de l’avenir John McLachlan - Ockham’s Razor, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - fail ceoil, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - X. Narita, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - XI. Celesta, Mary Dullea (piano) John McLachlan - Stone Bell and Sandwave - XX. Vita, Mary Dullea (piano) Editing: Keith Fennell
	17 Mar 2021	amplify #37 - Ailís Ní Ríain on a year of living through the pandemic	00:10:26
A special episode for St Patrick’s Day and marking a year of the pandemic. Composer and writer Ailís Ní Ríain reflects on her experiences throughout the past year. Show notes Ailís Ní Ríain CMC Composer page ailis.info Music improvised by the composer on an altered piano. Cover image - Rachel Gadsden. Happy St Patrick’s Day to all our listeners.
	03 Apr 2020	Composer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and Úna Monaghan on her collection of pieces 'Aonaracht I'	00:41:09
Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell Episode 15 of CMC’s podcast features composer and producer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid–19 Pandemic, and harpist and composer Úna Monaghan on working on ‘Aonaracht I’, a collection of pieces for New Music Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify Please get in touch - amplify@cmc.ie Show Notes Matthew Whiteside www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/ Twitter The Night With Classical Next Scottish New Music Awards Ensemble Offspring concert Úna Monaghan Aonaracht I Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Úna Monaghan - Réalta Matthew Whiteside - Response One David Fennessy - Hirta Rounds Matthew Whiteside - Quartet No. 6 Linda Buckley - Oscillate Úna Monaghan - Aonaracht I (rehearsal recording)
	06 May 2021	amplify #42 - New Music Dublin Part 3	00:21:37
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
	20 Dec 2022	amplify #79 - Sebastian Adams	00:27:30
Recorded this September, Sebastian Adams talks to Jonathan Grimes about his experiences on the Cursus programme at IRCAM in Paris. Show Notes Sebastian Adams CMC Composer Page Cursus Programme stolenmusic.org Music All Music by Sebastian Adams
	22 Oct 2019	Making a living as a composer - Amanda Feery on the worsening economic conditions for artists living in Dublin: amplify #1 (22 October 2019)	00:44:01
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
	17 Mar 2022	amplify #62 - Barbara Dignam on Roger Doyle's 'Babel'	00:42:49
A conversation with musicologist Barbara Dignam about Roger Doyle’s magum opus ‘Babel’. Recorded last year, this episode continues amplify’s occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. Show Notes Barbara Dignam Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell’s Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy Roger Doyle CMC Composer Page rogerdoyle.com Bandcamp page Babel Music Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music Why Is Kilkenny So Good from Rapid Eye Movements Thalia Rapid Eye Movements (Part 1) The Entertainment and Leisure Pursuits Show Seresa III from Fairlight Memories The Morning Show Part 2 - Earth at Full-Moon Lettuce Is My Hair Well Watered Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music The Morning Show Part 1 The Stairwell Part 1 Vertical Fissures in Stone Mr. Brady’s Room Back in Time from Time Machine The Morning Show Part 1 Farewell to Bray Editing and production: Keith Fennell Please consider subscribing to our podcast here and if you’re already a subscriber leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
	24 Dec 2021	amplify #56 - 2021 highlights and reflections: Toner Quinn, Journal of Music	00:18:36
The third in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn selects recordings from Gerald Barry, Jane Deasy, Dave Flynn and Anne-Marie O’Farrell as his recorded highlights of the year. Show Notes Toner Quinn Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - Irish National Opera Review in Journal of Music Jane Deasy Dave Flynn Anne-Marie O’Farrell Music Gerald Barry - Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - Signum Classics Jane Deasy - Thawing Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3: The Keening from the album ‘Irish Minimalism’ Anne-Marie O’Farrell - AirDance from the album ‘Embrace’
	15 Oct 2021	amplify #49 - Hormoz Farhat (1928-2021)	00:25:02
A tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin Hormoz Farhat, who died in August of this year, featuring an interview with the composer from 2020 by Linda O'Shea Farren, as well as contributions from composers Amir Tafreshipour and Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show notes Hormoz Farhat CMC Composer Page Wikipedia Page Irish Times Obituary Amir Tafreshipour Donnacha Dennehy Music Piano Sonata No. 2: II (Mary Dullea) Piano Sonata No. 1: III (Mary Dullea) Piano Sonata No. 1: I (Mary Dullea Piano Sonata No. 1: IV (Mary Dullea String Quartet No. 1: Mov. 4 (St Petersburg String Quartet) Piano Sonata No. 2: III (Mary Dullea) Nouveau Rivage (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
	11 Feb 2022	amplify #59 - Ulysses Journey 2022	00:44:55
CMC’s podcast returns for 2022 with an episode on CMC and Centre Culturel Irlandais’ Ulysses Journey 2022 programme of new music and film screenings marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce. Featuring contributions from CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren, composers Darragh Kelly and Ailís Ní Ríain, and guitarist Katalin Koltai. Show Notes Ulysses Journey 2022 Watch the specially commissioned music films on YouTube (available for a limited time only) Darragh Kelly darragh-kelly.com CMC Composer Page Penelope Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair Ailís Ní Ríain ailis.info CMC Composer Page I will see if I can see Jim Henry Katalin Koltai Music Ultan O’Brien - cling(ing) like fire Darragh Kelly - Penelope Ailís Ní Ríain - I will see if I can see Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus (Katalin Koltai - guitar), archival recording of premiere on 4 February 2022
	28 Jul 2022	amplify #72 - 'Future Music?', a discussion from Music Current 2022	00:19:51
amplify #72 - ‘Future Music?’: a discussion from Music Current 2022 Recorded in April as part of the Music Current 2022 festival, this episode features a discussion entitled ‘Future Music?’ on musical life after the pandemic. Introduced and chaired by CMC Director Evonne Ferguson, the discussion, recorded at the Project Arts Centre in front of an audience, includes composer Natacha Diels, Music Current artistic director Fergal Dowling, and Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn. Show Notes FUTURE MUSIC? event details musiccurrent.ie Fergal Dowling Journal of Music Natacha Diels
	20 Nov 2020	amplify #29 - Emma Coulthard	00:35:33
Episode 29 of CMC’s podcast on Irish composers and new music features a conversation with flautist Emma Coulthard about her career and work with Irish composers. The episode also includes contributions from two of the composers on their collaborations with Emma - Paul Hayes and Fergus Johnston. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here Emma Coulthard Soundcloud page For the Birds - online concert on 30 November Music Fergus Johnston - Planxty Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR John Buckley - Boireann (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) Michael Holohan - Leafy with Love Banks Paul Hayes - Mass Production (Emma Coulthard (voice), Jennifer Walshe (trumpet), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Paul Hayes - Echo Chatterbox John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) Fergus Johnston - Opus Lepidopterae (Emma Coulthard, David Adams) Benjamin Dwyer - HAG (Emma Coulthard, Benjamin Dwyer) Fergus Johnston - Planxty Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
	05 Dec 2019	History as contested ground: Donnacha Dennehy's opera The Hunger, featuring interviews with the composer, Iarla Ó Lionáird and director Tom Creed, and remembering Colin Mawby (1936-2019) - amplify #4	00:41:58
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
	23 Dec 2021	amplify #55 - 2021 highlights and reflections: Elizabeth Hilliard	00:11:37
The second in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Soprano Elizabeth Hilliard talks about some of her musical highlights of the year including the launch of the album of Gráinne Mulvey’s piece for voice and electronics ‘Great Women’. Show Notes Elizabeth Hilliard Great Women - Gráinne Mulvey Dublin International Chamber Music Festival Sundays@Noon concert - Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe How the World Begins Again Music Gráinne Mulvey - Great Women Gráinne Mulvey - Within - Without (Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe)
	10 Apr 2020	Dealing with Covid-19: pianist Isabelle O'Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard	00:44:05
Episode 16 of CMC’s podcast features conversations about dealing with the Covid–19 Pandemic with pianist Isabelle O’Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes Isabelle O’Connell Frank Corcoran Elizabeth Hilliard National Campaign for the Arts Artist Emergency Relief Fund Arts Council COVID–19 Crisis Response Award CMC COVID–19 Composer Survey Finding a Voice Music Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music Amanda Feery - Two Steps on the Water Donnacha Dennehy - Resevoir Linda Buckley - Fridur, 16:38, 20:42 Siobhán Cleary - Ondine Frank Corcoran - Symphony No. 2 (opening) Frank Corcoran - Eight Haiku (archive recording) Gráinne Mulvey - Eternity is Now Gráinne Mulvey - The Seafarer David Bremner - Logic Ballad #2: The guarded tourist makes the guide the test Siobhán Cleary - Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire
	12 Nov 2024	amplify #113 - Live from West Cork Chamber Music Festival	00:28:34
A live podcast discussion recorded at the 2024 West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Composers Rhona Clarke and Deirdre Gribbin join Jonathan Grimes to discuss their work on ‘Magdalene Songs’, an ongoing project by pianist Deirdre Brenner, which features their songs along with songs by Deirdre McKay, all based on testimonies from survivors of the Magdalene Laundries. This discussion took place following a performance the previous evening of the ‘Magdalene Songs’ by mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and Deirdre Brenner. From 1922 to 1996, more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders in 10 locations around the country, these for-profit institutions detained individuals against their will and forced them to work long hours, unpaid, under abusive and humiliating conditions. These institutions committed some of the most serious systematic violations against human rights in Ireland in the 20th century. This work by is intended to honour those women who were so gravely mistreated by church and state in the Magdalene Laundries by giving voice to their experience. Show Notes • https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/ • https://www.rhonaclarke.com/ • https://www.cmc.ie/composers/rhona-clarke • http://jfmresearch.com/home/preserving-magdalene-history/about-the-magdalene-laundries/ • https://www.deirdregribbin.com/ • https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-gribbin • https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-mckay • https://www.deirdre-brenner.com/ • https://www.lottebettsdean.com/ Music All music from Magdalene Songs, performed live at West Cork Chamber Music Festival on 5 July 2024 at St Brendan’s Hall, Bantry by Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Deirdre Brenner (piano), and recorded by RTÉ Lyric fm. • Rhona Clarke - Martina • Deirdre Gribbin - Bernadette • Rhona Clarke - Evelyn • Deirdre McKay - Litany to the Magdalene Dead Recording and editing: Keith Fennell
	18 May 2023	amplify #86 - Stephen Graham on Contemporary Music and the economy	00:44:57
Read interview transcript: https://www.cmc.ie/amplify/episode-86 A discussion with Stephen Graham, Head of School of Arts and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmith’s University of London about new music and its relationship to the economy. Show Notes Stephen Graham Becoming Noise Music Twentieth-Century Music in the West Composing Capital Music Seán Clancy - Sign New Music New Ireland four
	23 Oct 2020	amplify #27 - Seán Doherty on composing for choir and choral conductor Orla Flanagan on her work with the Mornington Singers	00:41:28
Episode 27 of CMC’s podcast ‘amplify’ features a special episode produced for this year’s City of Derry International Choir Festival. Derry-born composer Seán Doherty talks to Evonne Ferguson about his background in choral singing and composing for choir, and conductor Orla Flanagan talks to Jonathan Grimes about her work with the Mornington Singers and Irish composers. Show Notes Subscribe to the podcast here City of Derry International Choir Festival 2020 Festival podcast series Séan Doherty cmc.ie/composers/sean-doherty seandohertymusic.com New Dublin Voices Laetare Vocal Ensemble Orla Flanagan Mornington Singers Music Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers) Seán Doherty Blessed be that Maid Marie (New Dublin Voices) Snow Dance for the Dead (New Dublin Voices) A Nywe Werk (New Dublin Voices) Ghost Song (Laetare Vocal Ensemble) This Endless Night (New Dublin Voices) Khuluma isintu (Speak to the People) Orla Flanagan Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers) Caitríona Ní Dhubhghaill - Is naofa thú (Mornington Singers) Evangelia Rigaki - The Pregnant Box (Mornington Singers) John Buckley - Lux Aeterna (Mornington Singers) John Buckley - To the Northeast: Harbour Song (Mornington Singers) Seán Doherty - Under-Song (Mornington Singers) Colin Mawby - Alleluia, Christus Resurrexit (Mornington Singers) Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers) Frank Corcoran - Caoine (Mornington Singers) Gráinne Mulvey - Dead Earth (Milltown Chamber Choir) Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)
	11 Dec 2020	amplify #31 - Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera	00:34:46
This week’s podcast features four of the composers whose works will be presented as part of Irish National Opera’s 20 Shots of Opera online event. Éna Brennan, Michael Gallen, Emma O’Halloran, and Evangelia Rigaki talk about their pieces alongside contributions from INO Artistic Director Fergus Sheil and soprano Orla Boylan. Subscribe to the podcast here Show Notes 20 Shots of Opera Michael Gallen michaeljgallen.com CMC composer page Emma O’Halloran emma-ohalloran.com CMC composer page Evangelia Rigaki Éna Brennan Music Evangelia Rigaki - The Gift (Doreen Curran (mezzo-soprano), Sean McGinley (actor), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) Michael Gallen - At a Loss (Orla Boylan (soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) Emma O’Halloran - The Wait (Naomi Louisa O’Connell (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly) Éna Brennan - Rupture (Rachel Goode (soprano), Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly)
	28 Apr 2023	amplify #84 - amplify LIVE at New Music Dublin 2023	00:38:35
A live podcast recorded during New Music Dublin 2023 with some of the composers and artists featured at this year’s festival. Composers Úna Monaghan, Kevin Volans and Susan Geaney, and conductor David Brophy join special guest American broadcaster and writer John Schaefer (New Sounds, WNYC) and CMC’s Jonathan Grimes in conversation. Show Notes New Music Dublin John Schaefer Úna Monaghan Kevin Volans CMC Composer Page Susan Geaney Quiet Music Ensemble David Brophy Recorded on 22 April 2023 in the Iveagh Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin. Sound: Keith Fennell Thanks to New Music Dublin and the National Concert Hall for hosting this event
	05 Feb 2021	amplify #34 - composer Donnacha Dennehy and clarinettist Carol McGonnell	00:52:54
Episode 34 of CMC’s podcast. Evonne Ferguson talks to US-based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy about his current work, musical preoccupations, and his experiences of composing during lockdown, Jonathan Grimes talks to Irish clarinettist and new music specialist Carol McGonnell about her life and work, and music from Gráinne Mulvey recorded by Elizabeth Hilliard and Anselm McDonnell for CMC’s recent online Salon event. Show Notes Donnacha Dennehy Composer web site CMC Composer Page The Last Hotel The Second Violinist Music Donnacha Dennehy - The Last Hotel: Breathe Deep Donnacha Dennehy - O (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney Donnacha Dennehy - Tessellatum (Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne) Ockeghem - Deo Gratias (Huelgas Ensemble) Donnacha Dennehy - Swift’s Epitaph (Andrew Watts and Owen Gunnell) Carol McGonnell Argento Chamber Ensemble Music Ann Cleare - eyam v (woven) (Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney) Irene Buckley - Choral Ryan Molloy - Cantaireacht (Carol McGonnell) Ann Cleare - eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) CMC St. Brigid’s Day/La Fhéile Bríde 2021 event Gráinne Mulvey - a carlow song cycle: Poem #43 (Elizabeth Hilliard, Anselm McDonnell)
	12 Jun 2020	amplify #22 - Andrew Hamilton	00:28:03
Episode 22 of CMC’s podcast features an in-depth interview with composer, Andrew Hamilton about his new album 'Joy' on Ergodos Records and highlights of CMC's Salon online event from last week. Show Notes; CMC Salon; Andrew Hamilton's new album 'Joy' released on Ergodos Records. Music Jane O'Leary - A Piacere (Paul Roe) Andrew Hamilton - Joy Andrew Hamilton - The Spirit of Art Andrew Hamilton - May Andrew Hamilton - A Andrew Hamilton - Product #1 Andrew Hamilton - I and I Please consider supporting these and other Irish composers and musicians by purchasing their music
	05 Mar 2020	Sounding the Feminists - Ann Cleare, Karen Power, Laura Watson and Ciara Murphy - amplify #10	00:26:32
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
	19 Feb 2021	amplify #35 - Contemporary Artists Network of CMC Colleagues	00:34:23
CMC Communications & Projects Manager Linda O’Shea Farren talks to Jonathan Grimes about CMC’s new Contemporary Artists Network of CMC Colleagues programme, alongside contributions from Derek Ball, Robbie Blake, Sineád Hayes, Jenn Kirby, and Hannah Miller. Show Notes Contemporary Artists Network of CMC Colleagues programme Robbie Blake - Tonnta Sineád Hayes Jenn Kirby CMC Composer Page jennkirby.com Derek Ball Hannah Miller Music Derek Ball - Valediction (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) Derek Ball - Marking Out (Hannah Miller) Derek Ball - Distancing (Hannah Miller)
	25 Jun 2021	amplify #46 - Deirdre Gribbin on her new quartet for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and a conversation with the festival's artistic director Francis Humphrys	00:39:59
Episode 46 features composer Deirdre Gribbin on her latest commission ‘Dark Matter Hunting’ from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and her long association with the Bantry-based festival, and artistic director Francis Humphrys on this year’s programme and the challenges of putting on an online festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. CMCIreland · amplify #46 - Deirdre Gribbin & West Cork Chamber Music Festival's Francis Humphrys Show notes West Cork Chamber Music Festival Festival progamme Pacifica Quartet concert featuring Deirdre Gribbin world online premiere Citizens of Everywhere concert featuring Finola Merivale ‘The silent sweep as you stand still’ Deirdre Gribbin deirdregribbin.com/ CMC composer page Music Visit West Cork Chamber Music’s archive for a comprehensive collection of past performances from the festival Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Sound (Fidelio Trio) Deirdre Gribbin - Amazing Face (Vanbrugh Quartet) Deirdre Gribbin - Devil’s Dwealing Place (Nurit Stark) Deirdre Gribbin - Kindersang (Caroline Melzer, Nurit Stark) Deirdre Gribbin - Dark Matter Hunting (Pacifica Quartet) Finola Merivale - The silent sweep as you stand still (Mairéad Hickey, Ella van Poucke) John Kinsella - Prelude and Toccata (Vanbrugh Quartet) Emma O’Halloran - Dying is a Wild Night (Quatuor Zaïde) Seán Doherty - String Quartet No.3 ‘The Devil’s Dream’ (Vanbrugh Quartet)
	28 Dec 2023	Bonus Episode - Brian Bridges on his work Ramp Waves at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival	00:09:24
In this special bonus episode of amplify, Jonathan Grimes speaks to Brian Bridges about his new work, Ramp Waves which he performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Show Notes Michel Chion: Requiem @ HCMF This concert commemorated the 50th anniversary of the premier performance of Michel Chion’s Requiem at the Théâtre Récamier in Paris in 1973 Music Ramp Waves was recorded live at Belfast Festival on 13 October 2023. This interview was recorded on 22 November 2023 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Editing: Keith Fennell
	19 Dec 2019	Jennifer Walshe on her opera with Timothy Morton 'TIME TIME TIME' and Kevin Volans on reaching 70 - amplify #5	00:52:39
Episode 5 of CMC’s podcast features interviews with Jennifer Walshe’s about her opera TIME TIME TIME and Kevin Volans on reaching 70. Subscribe to the Podcast here. Production - Jonathan Grimes Recording and editing - Keith Fennell Show Notes Jennifer Walshe TIME TIME TIME Kevin Volans Kevin Volans’ 70th Birthday Concert Sonic Acts MaerzMusik Ultima Festival Borealis Serpentine Galleries London Contemporary Music Festival Aedín Cosgrove Úna Monaghan Timothy Morton MC Schmidt Lee Patterson Áine O’Dwyer Cafe Oto Aosdána Open Ear Festival Áine O’Dwyer - Accompaniment for Captives Eoin Murray - The Quietus Music Kevin Volans - String Quartet No. 9, Signum Quartett - 00:02 Jennifer Walshe & Timothy Morton - TIME TIME TIME; Berlin, March 2019 - 02:57, 04:27, 6:10, 9:38, 11:46, 18:45, 20:19 Jennifer Walshe & Timothy Morton - TIME TIME TIME; London, December 2019 (rehearsal) - 14:48, 28:01, 32:02, 33:10 Jennifer Walshe - The Site of an Investigation, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 23:21, 34:44 Áine O’Dwyer - Alter Boy - 26:20 Kevin Volans - String Quartet No. 12, Signum Quartett - 37:55, 51:48
	29 Apr 2021	amplify #40 - New Music Dublin Part 1	00:41:52
In a series of episodes covering this year’s New Music Dublin festival, which took place online from 23–26 April, CMC talks to some of the composers, musicians and other key people involved in the festival. In this episode, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes speak to soprano Michelle O’Rourke, composer Judith Ring, New Music Dublin festival director John Harris, composer and artistic director of Evlana, Siobhan Cleary, and composers Anne Marie O’Farrell, John McLachlan and Deirdre Gribbin. Show notes New Music Dublin Michelle O’Rourke Judith Ring CMC Composer Page Siobhán Cleary CMC Composer Page Anne Marie O’Farrell CMC Composer Page John McLachlan Deirdre Gribbin Music Irene Buckley - Awakening (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) Ed Bennett - Journal Songs 2020 (Michelle O’Rourke, Richard Allen) Judith Ring - Swelt Belly at Dawn (Paul Roe, Keith Pascoe, Adrian Mantu) Gráinne Mulvey - Sun of Orient Crimson with Excess of Light (Isabelle O’Connell) Jane Deasey - Supple Music (Adrian Mantu) John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana) John Buckley - Constellations (Bill Dowdall) Raymond Deane - Tristia (Evlana) Anne-Marie O’Farrell - Eitilt (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Brophy) Deirdre Gribbin - Scattered Earth (Michelle O’Rourke, Richard Allen) John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana)
	13 Feb 2020	Toner Quinn on 20 years of the Journal of Music; Jane O'Leary on writing for string quartet and recent works; and Adrian Mantu on new music and the ConTempo Quartet - amplify #8	00:46:22
Episode 8 of CMC's podcast features interviews recorded in Galway in early February 2020 with Toner Quinn, Journal of Music, composer Jane O'Leary, and Galway Music Residency - the ConTempo Quartet cellist, Adrian Mantu. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. Subscribe at cmc.ie/amplify Show Notes Toner Quinn Journal of Music Jane O’Leary ConTempo Quartet Adrian Mantu Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble Music Dave Flynn - Slip from String Quartet No. 2, ConTempo Quartet - 00:02 Benedict Schlepper-Connolly - The weathered stone, Anita Vedres, Kate Ellis, Saskia Lankhoorn (Ergodos) - 04:51 Donnacha Dennehy - Streetwalker, Crash Ensemble (NMC Recordings) - 09:19 Seán Mac Erlaine - Horse-Drawn Thoughts (Ergodos) - 17:33 Ina Boyle - String Quartet, live recording on 4 February 2020, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway. ConTempo Quartet - 20:33 Jane O’Leary - forever begin… (Fanfare for a New Year), live recording on 4 February 2020, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway. ConTempo Quartet - 20:33–24:32 Jane O’Leary - Beneath the Dark Blue Waves, live recording on 31 January 2020, SARC, Queens University, Belfast. Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble, - 25:34-28:58 Jane O’Leary - Mystic Play of Shadows - 31:48–34:24 Linda Buckley - Haza, ConTempo Quartet - 36:20 Jennifer Walshe - Minard/Nithsdale, ConTempo Quartet - 41:00 Deirdre McKay - Snowline, ConTempo Quartet - 44:28

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Episode 6 of CMC's fortnightly podcast features interviews with violinist Darragh Morgan and composer Deirdre Gribbin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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The final episode of CMC’s podcast presented by Jonathan Grimes and CMC Director Evonne Ferguson includes a brief look back on CMC’s work during 2020, an excerpt from CMC’s last online Salon event for 2020, and Anne-Marie O’Farrell on her 2017 Beethoven-inspired work, ‘Der Abend’.

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A conversation with composer Rhona Clarke about her new album ‘Sempiternam’. The album features a selection of the composer’s choral works composed over a 30-year period performed by State Choir Latvija. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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Episode 18 features conversations with composer and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and his Beckett-inspired album, ‘What is the Word’; and composer, saxophonist and Diatribe Records co-director Nick Roth on the label. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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To mark the end of 2021, CMC’s amplify podcast invited some guests to reflect on their year. For this episode, pianist and Fidelio Trio member Mary Dullea shares some of her musical highlights of 2021.

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Episode 61 features conversations with composer Ailís Ní Ríain and pianist Yonit Kosovske about ‘Watershed’, a song cycle composed by Ailís Ní Ríain for Yonit Kosovske and contralto Julie Comparini. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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Episode 17 features Glasgow-based Irish composer Linda Buckley in conversation with Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. The episode includes an introduction to a playlist of pieces by Irish composers, specially selected for the podcast by Linda Buckley.

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Episode 39 features a conversation with pianist Michael McHale about his work and upcoming online concert for Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘We Sing for the Future’ which takes place from 14–18 April 2021.

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Episode 28 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with composers about two recent album releases. Ed Bennett’s ‘Psychedelia’ on NMC Recordings, and Karen Power’s ‘Human Nature’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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The second of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion with George Higgs and live performance of his multisensory piece ‘Music for 5 Silent Poems’, a work commissioned by New Music Dublin for live and online performance via Instagram.

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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.

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The first of two live recordings for New Music Dublin 2022 features a discussion on Joyce and new music and CMC’s Ulysses Journey Project with composers Benjamin Dwyer and Frank Corcoran, and CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren. The episode was recorded at the National Concert Hall on 29 April.

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A discussion recorded during this year’s Finding a Voice festival in Clonmel featuring composers Jacqueline Fletcher, Áine Mallon and Gráinne Mulvey. This discussion, which took place on 11 March 2023, is introduced and chaired by CMC Director, Evonne Ferguson.

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Episode 23 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Judith Ring on her work and dealing with a creative slump during lockdown, and Roger Doyle on his second electronic opera, ‘iGirl’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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A conversation with composer Brian Irvine, recorded during last month’s New Music Dublin festival. Brian’s work ‘A Call to Arms’ was premiered by Stone Drawn Circles and he speaks to Jonathan Grimes about the background to the work and composing for the group.