Kámen (Stone) for string quartet by Ben McHugh
Played by the ConTempo String Quartet July 2010

Kámen (Stone) for string quartet - Ben McHugh

Interview with composer Daniel McDermott in Trinity College Dublin 27/07/2014

Daniel's new choral work Obsessive Choral Disorder will be premiered by New Dublin Voices in St Ann's Church on July 12th. 

See who else is going here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1429994390599537/

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0'00 Extract 1 - Grit 
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0'32 Interview begins

1'45 Extract 2 - The Lullaby Wars
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5'05 Extract 3 - In This Skin 
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Listen to more from Daniel at soundcloud.com/danielmcdermott

Transcript of interview available on our Conversations blog here: http://www.irishcomposerscollective.org/conversations-blog-4-daniel-mcdermott/

Daniel McDermott Interview

A piece for solo cello written for Yseult in August 2013 and performed in her final year recital last year (although I think this is a recording from a rehearsal beforehand). The piece was written as a scabby birthday present.

Rhapsodic and brooding throughout, the piece culminates in a lament played with one finger (very) high on the G-string over a pedal C, marked 'allow to gradually disintegrate into grit'. This sounds easy but it's extremely difficult - and brilliantly done by Yseult. Let's convince her to play it again!

Nachtmusik (peformed by Yseult Cooper Stockdale)

Performed by Raymond Deane in the Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, January 29th 2015, as part of his featured concert of the AIC 'Irish Composers on Irish Music' series. 

More information on AIC (Association of Irish Composers):

www.composers.ie

Miniature for piano (performed by Raymond Deane)

Commissioned and performed by Co-Orch Dublin on the 26th of February 2015. Soloist: Keith Sutherland.

Hiraeth (for Bassoon And Orchestra)

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Nothing I Do Will Ever Be Good Enough

Irish composer Ryan Molloy on his new album of piano works recorded by Alexander Bernstein. 

The album is available from CMC's site - https://www.cmc.ie/shop/ryan-molloy-innisfail 

Ryan Molloy on his new CD Innisfail

A last minute space became available in an Irish Composers Collective concert for solo harpsichord on 20/4/12 so I arranged and submitted this piece. It didn't take very much to alter the original composition to fit perfectly on harpsichord. David Adams performs excellently. Recorded by Dylan Rynhart.

Stave Off arranged for Harpsichord performed by David Adams

The Irish Composers Collective was founded in 2003 and is committed to creating high-quality performances of music by its composer-members.

‘The ICC is a ready-made community of creators, performers, and listeners, and they are blazing a trail for 21st-century music in Ireland.’ - The Guardian