The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
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The all-island archive & resource organisation for Contemporary Music from Ireland. Find us on 19 Fishamble St, Dublin 8.
Explore New Music from Ireland at www.cmc.ie
Listen to our podcast #amplify
#ArtsCouncilSupported #ACNISupported
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Explore New Music from Ireland at www.cmc.ie
Listen to our podcast #amplify
#ArtsCouncilSupported #ACNISupported
Charity No. CHY 87 91
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...
Listen: www.cmc.ie/amplify/epis...
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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...
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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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.
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!
Featuring artists from across the globe for three days of performances, screenings, and conversations that move, challenge and inspire!
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢 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!
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
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
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
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
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
Dublin Sound Lab's 2025 Associate Artists are David Coonan, Barbara Elison & Pauric Freeman.
👉 Read more loom.ly/YnHONho
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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
Dublin Sound Lab's 2025 Associate Artists are David Coonan, Barbara Elison & Pauric Freeman.
👉 Read more loom.ly/YnHONho
#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.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#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.
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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
🔹£750 prize
🔹Mentoring
🔹Publication of the piece
🔹Workshopping with performers
🔹Premiere + performances at 5 EMPOWER 2026 events
More info loom.ly/ienOjOY
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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
🔹£750 prize
🔹Mentoring
🔹Publication of the piece
🔹Workshopping with performers
🔹Premiere + performances at 5 EMPOWER 2026 events
More info loom.ly/ienOjOY
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
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
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
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
👉 Find out more & meet the artists here: https://loom.ly/JQrovAQ
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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
👉 Find out more & meet the artists here: https://loom.ly/JQrovAQ
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!
Will is working on typesetting the piano reduction of Joan Trimble's 'Blind Raftery', with the permission of the Estate. Thanks for visiting Will!
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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!
Will is working on typesetting the piano reduction of Joan Trimble's 'Blind Raftery', with the permission of the Estate. Thanks for visiting Will!
📢 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
Read more at CMC News: loom.ly/RnKLC14
#ISCM
October 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📢 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
Read more at CMC News: loom.ly/RnKLC14
#ISCM
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
🎼 Featuring music by Norah Walsh & Anne-Marie O'Farrell
🎟️ Free event, booking on Eventbrite: https://loom.ly/r6ugkkk
September 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
🎼 Featuring music by Norah Walsh & Anne-Marie O'Farrell
🎟️ Free event, booking on Eventbrite: https://loom.ly/r6ugkkk
🔎 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.
🔗👇
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.
🔗👇
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🔎 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.
🔗👇
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/...
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/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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/...
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/...
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!
👉Laura writes about this experience for www.cmc.ie/features - describing an inspiring blend of composing, exploring the landscape and connecting with fellow artists!
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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!
👉Laura writes about this experience for www.cmc.ie/features - describing an inspiring blend of composing, exploring the landscape and connecting with fellow artists!
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.
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.
September 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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.
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 🥳
September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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 🥳
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/...
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/...
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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/...
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/...
🔔 Announcing September's Sparky Conversation: 'Journeys in Accessible Creativity & Contemporary Performance' with violinist Jane Hackett. ISL interpretation will be provided.
📆 19 Sept, 12 midday
📍Online, register for the Zoom link
More info: loom.ly/QDTx518
#sparkyconversations #community #event
📆 19 Sept, 12 midday
📍Online, register for the Zoom link
More info: loom.ly/QDTx518
#sparkyconversations #community #event
August 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🔔 Announcing September's Sparky Conversation: 'Journeys in Accessible Creativity & Contemporary Performance' with violinist Jane Hackett. ISL interpretation will be provided.
📆 19 Sept, 12 midday
📍Online, register for the Zoom link
More info: loom.ly/QDTx518
#sparkyconversations #community #event
📆 19 Sept, 12 midday
📍Online, register for the Zoom link
More info: loom.ly/QDTx518
#sparkyconversations #community #event
Sparky Conversations is back in September💡
This season focuses on the relationship between artists' lived experiences and the music they create 💭
How does our physical bodies, mental health, financial wellbeing and personal identities impact on, feed into or emerge from the music we create?
This season focuses on the relationship between artists' lived experiences and the music they create 💭
How does our physical bodies, mental health, financial wellbeing and personal identities impact on, feed into or emerge from the music we create?
August 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sparky Conversations is back in September💡
This season focuses on the relationship between artists' lived experiences and the music they create 💭
How does our physical bodies, mental health, financial wellbeing and personal identities impact on, feed into or emerge from the music we create?
This season focuses on the relationship between artists' lived experiences and the music they create 💭
How does our physical bodies, mental health, financial wellbeing and personal identities impact on, feed into or emerge from the music we create?
Explore Irish Choral Music in a new series of illustrated talks, researched & presented by CMC Scholar-in-Residence Laura Sheils at the CMC Library.
See our Autumn/Winter programme + book your free ticket for the first event 🔗 www.cmc.ie/news/0728202...
#news #irishchoralmusic #cmcscholarinresidence
See our Autumn/Winter programme + book your free ticket for the first event 🔗 www.cmc.ie/news/0728202...
#news #irishchoralmusic #cmcscholarinresidence
July 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Explore Irish Choral Music in a new series of illustrated talks, researched & presented by CMC Scholar-in-Residence Laura Sheils at the CMC Library.
See our Autumn/Winter programme + book your free ticket for the first event 🔗 www.cmc.ie/news/0728202...
#news #irishchoralmusic #cmcscholarinresidence
See our Autumn/Winter programme + book your free ticket for the first event 🔗 www.cmc.ie/news/0728202...
#news #irishchoralmusic #cmcscholarinresidence
#Opportunity: Music Network / Ionad Cultúrtha Musician-in-Residence Programme in Baile Mhúirne, Cork 🎵
Applications welcome from professional musicians who are resident in Ireland, who are autistic/ people with autism and who have a strong track record in music performance.
Closing date: 1 September
Applications welcome from professional musicians who are resident in Ireland, who are autistic/ people with autism and who have a strong track record in music performance.
Closing date: 1 September
July 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#Opportunity: Music Network / Ionad Cultúrtha Musician-in-Residence Programme in Baile Mhúirne, Cork 🎵
Applications welcome from professional musicians who are resident in Ireland, who are autistic/ people with autism and who have a strong track record in music performance.
Closing date: 1 September
Applications welcome from professional musicians who are resident in Ireland, who are autistic/ people with autism and who have a strong track record in music performance.
Closing date: 1 September
Join tenor Christopher Bowen and guitarist Matthew Marshall on a journey in song from Ireland to New Zealand and back again! Featuring the Irish #premiere of Stephen McNeff's 'Eden Rock'. Concerts in Dublin + Limerick from 3-6 August.
🔗 More info + tickets lnkd.in/ejUZpZ9R
🖼️ Courtesy of the artists
🔗 More info + tickets lnkd.in/ejUZpZ9R
🖼️ Courtesy of the artists
July 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Join tenor Christopher Bowen and guitarist Matthew Marshall on a journey in song from Ireland to New Zealand and back again! Featuring the Irish #premiere of Stephen McNeff's 'Eden Rock'. Concerts in Dublin + Limerick from 3-6 August.
🔗 More info + tickets lnkd.in/ejUZpZ9R
🖼️ Courtesy of the artists
🔗 More info + tickets lnkd.in/ejUZpZ9R
🖼️ Courtesy of the artists
#Opportunity #Training
Safe to Create is offering 9 bursaries covering full tuition for the online Wellbeing Coordination in the Arts & Creative Sectors CPD Certificate, delivered by University College Cork.
Closing date for applications: 17 August
Find out more: www.safetocreate.ie/news/safe-to...
Safe to Create is offering 9 bursaries covering full tuition for the online Wellbeing Coordination in the Arts & Creative Sectors CPD Certificate, delivered by University College Cork.
Closing date for applications: 17 August
Find out more: www.safetocreate.ie/news/safe-to...
July 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#Opportunity #Training
Safe to Create is offering 9 bursaries covering full tuition for the online Wellbeing Coordination in the Arts & Creative Sectors CPD Certificate, delivered by University College Cork.
Closing date for applications: 17 August
Find out more: www.safetocreate.ie/news/safe-to...
Safe to Create is offering 9 bursaries covering full tuition for the online Wellbeing Coordination in the Arts & Creative Sectors CPD Certificate, delivered by University College Cork.
Closing date for applications: 17 August
Find out more: www.safetocreate.ie/news/safe-to...
Launching at Galway International Arts Festival this weekend 🚀
Composed & co-directed by Jennifer Walshe, 'Mars' is an opera about space colonisation, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of hustle culture and the unsettling futures encroaching on our present.
Details & tickets www.giaf.ie
Composed & co-directed by Jennifer Walshe, 'Mars' is an opera about space colonisation, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of hustle culture and the unsettling futures encroaching on our present.
Details & tickets www.giaf.ie
July 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Launching at Galway International Arts Festival this weekend 🚀
Composed & co-directed by Jennifer Walshe, 'Mars' is an opera about space colonisation, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of hustle culture and the unsettling futures encroaching on our present.
Details & tickets www.giaf.ie
Composed & co-directed by Jennifer Walshe, 'Mars' is an opera about space colonisation, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of hustle culture and the unsettling futures encroaching on our present.
Details & tickets www.giaf.ie