PRAISE ALOUD THE TREES -  Collaboration with Seamus Heaney.

Darragh Morgan - Violin, Ulster Orchestra, Jac Van Steen - Conductor 
BBC Radio 3 Recording for New Music Show Jan 2022

A MON SEUL DESIR (Violin and Orchestra)

For chamber ensemble, turntables and Forensic Anthropologist Dr René Gapert
Commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Possible Human

Just Outta Houston for 2x violins, cello, harp, piano

Mysterious art of Being - 2x violin,vcl,piano. harp

Mulholland - for orchestra

Drowning In The Sea Of Your Dreams - for orchestra

Klippel Collection No. 13 for piano (Isabelle O'connor)

Klippel Collection No.10 - for piano (Isabelle O'Connor)

Klippel  Colection No.11 for piano (Isabelle O'connor)

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

A mon seul desir - PART TWO - violin and orchestra

Short extract from Things We Throw Away - full film version coming soon - Sylvia O'Brien (Soprano), Doreen Curran (Mezzo), RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Fergus Sheil.

Extract from Drive By Shooting - Things We Throw Away

If We Could See Ourselves

Keyboards, Cello, Tuba, Violin, Music, Bass Clarinet 
MORF - MAIDEN VOYAGE DANCE COMPANY
Choreography by David Ogle

THE EXCHANGE (MORF)

Keyboards, Cello, Tuba, Violin, Music, Bass Clarinet
MORF - MAIDEN VOYAGE DANCE COMPANY
Choreography by David Ogle

TAKING THE TIME TO SEE (MORF)

TWO BREATHS (MORF)

13 VICES - Irresponsible Science  (extract) 
Jennifer Walshe (vocals), Red Note Ensemble: Jackie Shave (violin), Max Baillie (viola), Robert Irvine (cello)

"Irresponsible Science" - 13 Vices (extract)

13 VICES
(collaboration with Jennifer Walshe)

Jennifer Walshe (vocals) Red Note Ensemble - Jackie Shave (violin), Max Baillie (viola), Robert Irvine (cello) and improvisers - Paul Dunmall (sax), Paul Rogers (doublebass), Mark Sanders (perc), Brian Irvine (conductor)

"You" - 13 Vices (extract)

Jennifer Walshe (vocals) Red Note Ensemble - Jackie Shave (violin), Max Baillie (viola), Robert Irvine (cello) and improvisers- Paul Dunmall (sax), Paul Rogers (doublebass), Mark Sanders (perc), Brian Irvine (conductor)


Hash Tag -  (13 Vices extract)- collaboration with Jennifer Walshe

JUST A LITTLE LIGHTER CUT  for saxophone quartet.

for soprano and orchestra.  RTE National Symphony Orchestras and Lore Lixenburg (soprano)

PENNIES NICKEL DIMES- for orchestra and voice

for orchestra and singer. RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Lore LIxenburg (soprano)

BIRTH - for orchestra and voice

Rosemary Kennedy - 3 Min Trailer C

Rosemary Kennedy Files - extract

A Bird Can Fly - Rosemary Kennedy Files

Dunmall, Rogers Ulster Orchestra, Brian Irvine

My cows not pretty - but it's pretty to me (extract)

From Bluebottle - for orchestra, younger singers, narrator and live animation

You are the master of the universe of you - from Bluebottle

for singer, orchestra and tape - RTE NSO and Lore Lixenburg

Out came Pooh .

Praise aloud the trees - No 1 - The bushy leafy oak
music by Brian Irvine
words by Seamus Heaney

for double orchestra and choir
(RTE Concert Orchestra/ Ulster Orchestra/Horizon Voices
conducted by Jurjen Hempel/Fergus Sheil.
4 March 2012 Waterfront Hall Belfast

The Bushy Leafy Oak - for double orchestra and choir (Praise aloud the trees No.1)

for double orchestra and choir
music by Brian Irvine
words by Seamus Heaney

Ulster Orchestra/RTE Concert Orchestra/Horizon Voices
conducted by Jurjen Hempel/Fergus Sheil
4 March 2012, Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

The Blackthorn - for double orchestra and choir (Praise aloud the trees No.2)

Low Set Clumps - Double Orchestra and Choir - Collaboration with Seamus Heaney

Richie Golden's Fear and Phobia Extermination Emporium

Praise Aloud The Trees no.4
for large orchestra and chorus
words by Seamus Heaney from Sweeney Astray
performed by Ulster Orchestra/RTE National Symphony Orchestra ad Horizon Voices March 2012. Conducted by Jurjen Hempel and Fergus Sheil.

The Yew Tree - Collaboration with Seamus Heaney - for Double Orchestra + Choir

The Bushy Leafy Oak - Collaboration with Seamus Heaney - Double Orchestra and Choir

Praise Aloud the Trees No 5
For Double Orchestra and Choir. Collaboration with Seamus Heaney
RTE National Symphony Orchestra/Ulster Orchestra/Horizon Voices/Jurjen Hempel/Fergus Sheil- BBC Radio 3 commission, 2012

Holly Rears - Collaboration with Seamus Heaney - Double Orchestra and Choir

orchestra, ensemble and improviser- Paul Dunmall

Just cut 'em uplike regular chickens - for orchestra, ensemble and improviser.

Two Pianos Go Swimming

Brian was born in Belfast. His huge body of work reflects an obsessive love of music creation in all its forms. It includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale community oratorios, film and dance scores as well as numerous ensemble, solo, chamber pieces. 

His music has been performed all over the world and commissioned by many international artists and organisations including: Welsh National Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Wexford Festival Opera, Northern Sinfonia, BBC Radio 3, BBC Concert Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Scottish Ballet, Opera Theatre Company, Bath International Music Festival, Glasgow International Music  Festival, Lyric Youth Opera, Music Network, London 2012 Olympics Festival, Roald Dahl Foundation, 4-mality percussion ensemble, Belfast Festival at Queens, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Live Music Now, Sonorities Festival of New Music, Homecoming Music Festival (Moscow).
Together with his own 12 -piece ensemble (BBC Radio 3 music award winners) he has toured extensively throughout USA, Russia, France, Portugal, Germany, Scotland, Malta, Cyrus, Poland, Scotland, Ireland, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands and has appeared at some of the world’s leading international music festivals/venues including several appearances at the Bath International Music Festival (UK), Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank (London,UK), Gulbenkian Institute (Portugal) , Washington National Library of Congress (USA), Ouest Nord Ouest Festival, (France), Glasgow International Festival (UK), Kościół Św. Jana, Gdańsk (Poland), Festival d'été de Valence (France), Novgorod Municipal Theatre (Russia), Festival Sous les Pommiers, (France) Homecoming Festival (Russia), Dublin Festival (Ireland), Moving on Music Festival (UK), Sonorities Festival of New Music (UK) and The International House of Music (Moscow, Russia).

For the last four years he has been the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster. 
Brian has also collaborated with and written for some of the worlds most internationally established artists across many different genres including Seamus Heaney (poet), 4-mality percussion ensemble, Joanna MacGregor (piano), Billy Jenkins (guitar), Keith Tippet (piano), Paul Dunmall (saxophone/reeds), Roman Mints (violin), Matthew Bourne (piano), David Holmes, Snow Patrol, Duke Special, Keiji Haino (guitar), Joe Morris (guitar), LAU (BBC Folk award winners) as well as film makers, sculptors and animators including Eduard Bersudsky, Jari Neimenin, Joel Simon, John McCluskey and John Mcilduff.
He has won a number of awards for his work including a British Composers Award for Opera, BBC Radio 3 Jazz award for best new work, Major Individual Artist Award (Arts Council of Northern Ireland), First Trust/University of Ulster Distinquished Graduate Award, the MCPS Joyce Dixey Award for Composition and the Bass Ireland Award. Recently his opera Shelter Me form the Rain won the 2011 Irish Allianz Arts and Business Award for “best use of creativity in the community” and his large scale children’s oratorio Rain Falling Up was shortlisted for a 2011 British Composers Awards.  The junk opera Postcards from Dumbworld was also shortlisted for a 2011 Irish Times Theatre Award. 
Last year together with writer/director John Mcilduff he was awarded the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Artist Taking the Lead award for the enormous sonic installation Nest. Brian also recently completed the score to John McIlduff’s debut feature film Behold the Lamb as well as the short film opera: To Do List. 
His recent orchestral works have included:
Strange Attractors (40’) for orchestra and LAU commissioned by the Sage Gateshaed/ PRS foundation; My cow’s not pretty, but it’s pretty to me - recorded for BBC Radio 3 Hear and Now performed by the Ulster Orchestra and Praise aloud the trees for double orchestra and choir, a collaboration with Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and premiered by the Ulster Orchestra/RTE Concert Orchestras and Horizon voices in Belfast 4 March 2012
He is currently working on Nest (60’): a multi media installation for symphony orchestra, chorus, sonic processing, 5000 objects and film (commissioned by London 2012 Festival); an opera with writer Owen McCafferty (commissioned by  Northern Ireland Opera) and a violin concerto for violinist Darragh Morgan (commissioned by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra). 

His latest 8 - piece ensemble Melonhead makes its debut appearance at the Moving on Music festival in March 2012.




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