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Irish Times review: Concorde – Up Close with Music

  Michael Dervan’s review of Concorde’s recent gig featuring my composition Begin was published in the Irish Times on last week. It opened with the premiere of Begin, a setting for soprano, flute, clarinet and cello by Donal Rafferty of … Continue reading

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Aldeburgh Festival 2009 (2/2)

A major premiére at the Aldeburgh festival this year was Birtwistle’s Semper Downland: A Theatre of Melancholy and The Corridor (scena for soprano, tenor and 7 instrumentalists).  I found the first half of this work (Semper Dowland) to be pretty … Continue reading

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Aldeburgh Festival 2009 (1/1)

Well, I’ve finally found a minute to write about my time at the first week of the Aldeburgh Festival – and what a time it was! The best thing was by far the concert line-up. It was like all of … Continue reading

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