📣 Calling Emerging / Early-Career Women Composers in Ireland: Finding a Voice & CMC Ireland invite expressions of interest to take part in an artist development initiative, including a workshop + public performance opportunity, w/ mentorship from an established mentor 👉🔗 www.cmc.ie/opportunitie...

"The Midnight Verdict" connects composers from Ireland, France and Hungary with the ancient myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice" in its translation by Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Artists Deirdre McKay, Benoît Sitzia, Gregory Vajda and Katalin Koltai share more this collaborative project : loom.ly/S-SgHY0

🎄As we approach the festive period, CMC Scholar-in-Residence Laura Sheils delves into some winter-themed choral works in CMC’s catalogue for #ThroughTheDigitalDoor Featuring music by Rhona Clarke, Eoghan Desmond, Seán Doherty & Eoin Mulvany capturing the awe of the season! 🔗 loom.ly/CwGwG5A

📢 Call for Papers/Call for Works: RMA-SMI-EADH 2026 Conference at SARC, Queen's University Belfast. Proposals invited for standard formats, complete or in-progress compositions (supported by Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble), audio-visual art works, lecture-recitals, amongst others. Info: lnkd.in/dki9uFpr

📣 Congratulations to CMC Composer Xenia Pestova Bennett who has been appointed to the LSO Soundhub Scheme for 2025/26! Xenia will undertake an initial project at LSO St Luke’s and receive mentorship + support from industry professionals, the Soundhub Community, LSO members & staff 🔗 loom.ly/KejFi_4

amplify #128 is out now ✨ In this episode we hear from composer, curator and co-founder of ICon Arts Festival Romania, Diana Gheorghiu and CMC Emerging Artists Santiago Kodela and Laura Heneghan in conversation with CMC's Evonne Ferguson 🎧 Hosted on Acast, listen at www.cmc.ie/amplify/episode-128

This Monday 8th December is the last date before the Winter Holidays to order from the CMC Shop, any orders made following this will be processed in January 2026. #CMCShop #ChristmasOrders #Giftideas #musicgifts #ShopLocal

Delighted to be part of Northern Lights Project forthcoming tour 'Driftworks' 5-7 Dec in Galway, Cobh and Limerick, Ireland. Unique programmes anchored by the vibrant, uncompromising voices of some of Ireland’s leading composers and performers. @cmcireland.bsky.social

amplify #127 is available to listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! Recorded live at RAMP festival in Rathmullan, Donegal, this episode includes conversations with some of the artists featured: Timothy Cape, Mayah Kadish, Rob Casey & Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh. Listen: www.cmc.ie/amplify/epis...

Artist Spotlight: CMC BRIGID Composer Anderinna Gooch ✨ It's been a remarkable and very busy year for the composer, who tells us about some of her recent work & upcoming projects! Read at CMC Features: https://loom.ly/euRZjU0 📸 Still detail from 'Moon' (2005) by Anderinna Gooch.

📢 Coming soon! Our friends, Light Moves Festival present exciting dance, film, new media, sound and unique encounters in #Limerick City from 6-8 November. Featuring artists from across the globe for three days of performances, screenings, and conversations that move, challenge and inspire!

What lives in the space between who you are and what you create? 💭 Flautist and performance coach Vourneen Ryan leads our next #SparkyConversation: 'The Space Between' - Working from the Inside Out. Join us Friday 21 November at 12pm for an open and inspiring discussion! 🔗 Register: loom.ly/GIu_nlI

In Cologne for rehearsals tomorrow with the fantastic Ensemble Musikfabrik in advance of my premiere in Tallin, Estonia on Sunday at Rahvusvaheline Nüüdismuusika Festival AFEKT festival. 👍 @musikfabrik.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

I‘m up and on my way well before any glimmer of dawn today to talk about death, burial and resurrection rituals involving pianos. Is the king of instruments truly dead? Join me at Trinity College Dublin at 11am to find out. @cmcireland.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Dublin Sound Lab have announced a new Associate Artists Scheme. This new initiative invites artists to engage with the New Music project group as a kind of creative laboratory. Dublin Sound Lab's 2025 Associate Artists are David Coonan, Barbara Elison & Pauric Freeman. 👉 Read more loom.ly/YnHONho

Honoured to be one of those shortlisted to represent Ireland at ISCM World New Music Days in Bucharest in 2026. @iscm.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

Here's a link to the broadcast of Scarscape premiered recently by ORF RSO Wien at @musikprotokoll.bsky.social Austria. The piece itself starts c. 19:41 and remains online for a few weeks. sound.orf.at/.../sendung/... @cmcireland.bsky.social

#amplify is back with a conversation with composer Jonathan Nangle, recorded at the ISCM World New Music Days Festival in Lisbon. Featuring extracts of Nangle’s 'Artificial Blissful State' a piece that reflects on our relationship with technology and how we are increasingly controlled by it. 🔗👇

Some photos from the fantastic premiere of my recent orchestral piece 'Scarscape' by ORF Wien Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at Musikprotokoll, Graz, Austria. Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Professional photos © ORF musikprotokoll/Martin Gross. @cmcireland.bsky.social @musikprotokoll.bsky.social

EMPOWER: Women Changing Music invites proposals for a new work for flute, oboe, violin, viola & cello for the OpusHER Award. Winner will receive: 🔹£750 prize 🔹Mentoring 🔹Publication of the piece 🔹Workshopping with performers 🔹Premiere + performances at 5 EMPOWER 2026 events More info loom.ly/ienOjOY

Coming up in Belfast - experience my audiovisual piece GLOW from this year’s New Music Biennial, alongside grandpa Boulez @cmcireland.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/boulez...

On 24th/25th October I'll be premiering polar soundings by Karen Power @soundscotland.bsky.social Find out more about learning the piece in my blog: nordicviola.com/2025/10/10/p... @creativescots.bsky.social @newmusicscotland.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

I'm delighted and grateful that @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social & the New London Chamber Ensemble will perform my sextet for wind and percussion on Friday 17th October at Canterbury Festival #canterburyfestival @cmcireland.bsky.social

BUTCHER / DAFELDECKER / CARROLL On tour 👇 🎶 16 Oct, 13:10: SARC, Belfast 17 Oct, 13:10: FUAIM, UCC, Cork 18 Oct, 20:00: Kirkos Ensemble, Dublin 19 Oct, 12:00: Sundays at Noon, Dublin 21 Oct, 20:00: Hundred Years Gallery, London More info at CMC Events: loom.ly/1PdhLjM Supported by The Arts Council

The Contemporary Music Centre is delighted to welcome 8 newly represented Associate Artists: Katrina Emtage, Gerard Gormley, Anita Mawhinney, Peter O'Doherty, Aran O'Grady, Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Rory Murphy & Dorone Paris. 👉 Find out more & meet the artists here: https://loom.ly/JQrovAQ

Thanks to @journalofmusic.bsky.social for a nice lil review of our Plus Minus // Ultan O Brien concert last week. Fair play to Ultan & Plus Minus for such an enjoyable show… @ucddublin.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social journalofmusic.com/reviews/faer...

Wonderful to meet Will, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin who visited the CMC Library recently 📚 🎶 Will is working on typesetting the piano reduction of Joan Trimble's 'Blind Raftery', with the permission of the Estate. Thanks for visiting Will!

We chatted with composer Amelia Clarkson ahead of the Friday evening première of The Rain Keeps Coming. Our thanks to the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the Ulster Orchestra Foundation for supporting the commission of The Rain Keeps Coming. @cmcireland.bsky.social 🎫: buff.ly/TpdfPl8

Delighted to be welcoming singer, Michelle O Rourke to @ucddublin.bsky.social tomorrow for a lunchtime recital. Michelle will sing music from the 12th century to the present day inc. lots of Irish composers. Free entry & details below… @cmcireland.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

📢 6 works have been nominated by the Irish Section for the ISCM World New Music Days Festival in Romania in 2026. The pieces selected were composed by David Fennessy, Dylan Murphy, Ailís Ní Ríain, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Caterina Schembri and Ian Wilson. Read more at CMC News: loom.ly/RnKLC14 #ISCM

Day 1 of recording with Plus Minus Ensemble in the bag. Lovely to be in the Dublin Mountains with the mighty Spud Murphy at the helm. New album out with @nmcrecordings.bsky.social in 2026… exciting times ahead @ucddublin.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Delighted to be in Vienna this week rehearsing Scarscape with Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in advance of its premiere this weekend at Musikprotokoll this weekend. @musikprotokoll.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

Very excited for Plus Minus Ensemble in Whelan's in Dublin tonight! Music by Jessie Marino, Bernhard Land, & Me. Special Guest: Ultan O Brien. Will be a beaut! @ucddublin.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social @journalofmusic.bsky.social billetto.ie/e/plus-minus...

Tomorrow! London's Plus Minus Ensemble + special guest Ultan O'Brian 🎶 Featuring 30-minute work ‘Where the Paths End’ by Seán Clancy, plus music by Jessie Marino & Bernhard Lang. 📍 Whelans, Dublin 2 👉Details & tickets: www.whelanslive.com/event/plus-m... #livemusic #newmusicirl #whatsondublin

One week to go till Plus Minus Ensemble come to Whelans, Dublin - performing 30 minute work by myself alongside Jessie Marino & Bernhard Lang… we will be joined by Ultan O Brien playing a beautiful solo set… oi oi oi @cmcireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social billetto.ie/e/plus-minus...

In advance of the world premiere of Scarscape by ORF RSO Wien Radio Symphony Vienna next week, ORF - the Austrian national broadcaster has broadcast a one hour interview and played a selection of my work. @cmcireland.bsky.social oe1.orf.at/programm/202... @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @wien.orf.at

Next Wednesday 1 October at 6pm: Join us in the CMC Library for a talk spotlighting recent choral works by Irish women composers, led by our Scholar-in-Residence Laura Sheils. 🎼 Featuring music by Norah Walsh & Anne-Marie O'Farrell 🎟️ Free event, booking on Eventbrite: https://loom.ly/r6ugkkk

Now listening to: “Six New Works for Violin”, Larissa O’Grady, farpoint recordings with music by David Bremner, Jenn Kirby, Judith Ring, Anselm McDonnell, Robert Coleman, Fiona Linnane #IrishComposers #contemporarymusic @cmcireland.bsky.social @jennkirbym.bsky.social

Coming soon! Words, music and nature with Dara McAnulty at Aspects Festival celebrates Irish writing and music. With compositions by Xenia Pestova Bennett, @ed-bennett.bsky.social and some lovely classics including Debussy and Ravel - plus, toy piano! #irishcomposers @cmcireland.bsky.social

🔎 Looking for ways to develop your New Music practice? The CMC Emerging Artist Scheme provides training, mentorship + professional development opportunities to emerging / early-career artists born or based on the island of Ireland, where music composition and/or sound art is their main practice. 🔗👇

Galway's Luminosa String Orchestra with conductor Christopher George present Abhaile, a concert themed around the idea of coming home. Featuring music by Irish composer T.C.Kelly, and pieces by Bach & Tchaikovsky. 📆 20 Sept 📍St Nicholas' Collegiate Church More info: www.cmc.ie/events/2025/...

Wow! 🤓 A great review of Holocene @theartsdesk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3p6ft3dh The album is now available on NMC Recordings. tinyurl.com/388r5r5e @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk

This Summer, CMC Emerging Composers Laura Heneghan & Santiago Kodela participated in the CMC / ICON Arts residency programme in Sibiu. 👉Laura writes about this experience for www.cmc.ie/features - describing an inspiring blend of composing, exploring the landscape and connecting with fellow artists!

Plus Minus Ensemble with Ultan O Brien in Dublin 1 October @ 8pm… Music by Jessie Marino, Bernhard Lang, and me. Billets ici billetto.ie/e/plus-minus... @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Wishing Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble the very best on their Chilean tour this week! 🎶 ✨ The ensemble perform 3 new works by Chilean composers Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar, Cristian Morales Ossio and Esteban Correa, alongside music by Irish composers Elaine Agnew, Úna Monaghan, Rhona Clarke and Jane O’Leary.

Concorde celebrate 50 years of performances at the Hugh Lane Gallery with the world premiere of a new work by Ensemble Director Jane O’Leary 🥳

Public consultation on the future of Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland - this is important - via @cmcireland.bsky.social ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Earlier, I wrote a ditty for ensemble and electronics as featured at @prsfoundation.bsky.social #newmusicbiennial. You can now pre-order all the works from the festival from @nmcrecordings.bsky.social - available to stream from this Friday! nmcrecs.lnk.to/NewMusicBien... @cmcireland.bsky.social

hyperlynx announce 'Rest Energy' album launch tour! Blending elements of jazz, rock, ambient & electronic music, hyperlynx is a sonic alchemy of genres. The trio celebrate their debut release with performances in Galway / Kilkenny / Mullingar / Dublin next week. Details 👉 www.cmc.ie/events/2025/...

The Irish Times journalist Deirdre Falvey interviews CMC Composer Jane O'Leary ahead of her Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Concert Hall 🙏 👉 Read article: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... #janeoleary #cmccomposer #lifetimeachievement