Art Song Recital

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I am delighted to share that the final recital of my project exploring Art Song, supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Music Bursary Award, will take place later this month. This concert brings together both new and old works, including pieces written over the past year and one composed almost twenty years ago.

The recital will feature Eve Stafford (soprano), Yonit (aka Jolie) Kosovske (piano) and will introduce Chloe Collins (soprano).

Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Tuesday, 18th November at 1:15p.m. I would love for anyone in or near Limerick City to join us for this lunchtime performance in the beautiful setting of Saint Mary’s Cathedral. It has been such a rewarding experience developing this work with the support of The Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick City and County Council Art Office and I am so looking forward to sharing it with you all.

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October Performances

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***Autumn Season Announcement II – Dates for October***

This Friday sees the release of Songs of the Meteorologist on Bandcamp*! On Friday 3rd October you can buy the beautiful 2021 recording of the songs made by Opera Workshop and performed by the inimitable Roisín Walsh (soprano) and irreplaceable Markus Kraeber! More details in a separate post.

Two lunchtime concerts will feature my work later in the month. Tríona Walsh and Dr Yonit Kosovske bring their ‘A Woman’s life and love’ recital to the The Irish World Academy of Music & Dance in UL at 1.15pm on Thursday 23rd October. Sarah Ellen Murphy will perform two of my Songs from Kate O’Brien (but which two – you’ll have to come along to find out!) at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on Wednesday 29th October at 1.10pm. She is accompanied by Pádraig Wallace.

More in November to come! Happy October!

*This is the first time in over a decade that I have sold recordings of my music and the landscape has changed a lot since then. I chose Bandcamp for this release as the majority of proceeds go directly to the artist and on Free Fridays (such as this Friday) ALL proceeds go to the artist. It is a far fairer distribution platform than the streaming platforms where the artists get next to nothing.

Summer/Autumn 2025

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I received the lovely news, at the end of last year, that I have been awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Music Bursary to spend time exploring Art Song. This project ‘Art Song in Focus’ will give me the time and resources to build on what is already a significant part of my practice – working closely with singers and presenting new work to audiences.

The first stage of this project is already well up and running. I have been working with soprano Tríona Walsh and three of her vocal students looking at composing for voices at different stages of development (supported by the Mid West Vocal Academy). We held an informal show of work at Kilmurry Arts Centre in Limerick for an invited audience where we shared two new songs, two old songs from my catalogue rearranged for these singers and the first performance of my Pandemic Trilogy. The next event for this part of the project will take place on Culture Night in one of my favourite places in Limerick – No.2 Pery Square, the Peoples Museum of Limerick.

In the meantime I will be working with Limerick’s own songbird Eve Stafford on a new set of songs. This is a project Eve and I have been thinking about for a long time – setting a selection of her Granny’s poetry to music. It is really exciting to be working on this finally and to be sharing some of the work in Saint Mary’s Cathedral on 18th November.

One other aspect of the project has been to build on my own skills as a composer who also performs as a piano accompanist. I have been lucky enough to be receiving mentorship from American composer Ellen Mandel on all matters in composition, performing, curating, management but I am going to take her advice right this minute – Go and practice!