The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan TD recently launched this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH) showcase and conference. This annual event attracts key members of the global music industry to Ireland to engage with new and emerging Irish music in some of Dublin’s best live music venues. The HWCH conference…
The Irish Chamber Orchestra presents its music in many guises, creating extraordinary music experiences collaborating across the genres with ballet, aerial dance, opera, theatre, trad, DJ and club, rock and now jazz, in its quest to dazzle audiences. The Irish Chamber Orchestra visits glór in Ennis on Thursday October 18, Siamsa Tire, Tralee Friday October 19 and Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin in association with the Pavilion Theatre…
The Irish Chamber Orchestra has commissioned the talented Cork-born composer, Sam Perkin, to write a new encore for the ensemble. His much-anticipated Beginnings is an intimate work that contains fragments from the first piece or musical memory of each player in the orchestra. Perkin received his first commission in 2015 from the ICO, which resulted in his shimmering Nimbus for String Orchestra. The orchestra recently…