28 Febr uar y - 03 March 2 019

At the National Concert Hall and beyond

Bookings and Information nch.ie

With the support of the National Concert Hall, RTÉ and The Arts Council
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A very warm welcome to New Music Dublin 2019!
New Music Dublin 2019 does exactly what it says on the tin:
it really is all about the New. In this year’s festival we will
hear world premieres of over 22 new works – 18 of them
commissioned by New Music Dublin, almost all of them written
by Irish composers and artists – and nearly everything else we’ll
hear is being performed for the first time in Ireland, including
music by our two featured international composers, Louis
Andriessen (Netherlands) and Kaija Saariaho (Finland / Paris).
The range of music being performed is immense – from full-scale
orchestral to solos, left-field rock to sound art, chamber music
to choral music – and it represents an incredible, wonderful
outpouring of Irish and international musical creativity.
Almost every musical genre is represented in the Festival in
some way, and we hope no-one feels left out. Come for one
concert, come for two - come for the whole festival - and
immerse yourself in the new, the striking, the unfamiliar and the
thrillingly unexpected that is the lifeblood and excitement of
new music.
Come and hear New. We look forward enormously to seeing you!

John Harris Festival Director

New Music Dublin

NEW MUSIC DUBLIN TEAM

Steering Group: Niall Doyle (Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon), John O’Kane (RTÉ),
Simon Taylor (NCH)
Festival Director: John Harris
Producer: Jonathan Pearson
Communications: Dairne O’Sullivan
Social Media: Kerry FitzGerald
Design: Craig Potterton (NCH)

THE FESTIVAL WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT AND ASSISTANCE FROM THE FOLLOWING:
Everyone in every department at The Arts Council / the National Concert Hall / RTÉ Orchestras, Quartets and Choirs / RTÉ lyric fm /
RTÉ Radio 1 / Culture Ireland / Contemporary Music Centre / Office of Public Works / Dublin City Council / Chamber Choir Ireland /
Concorde / Crash Ensemble / Ergodos / Fidelio Trio //
Mary Adams / Olga Barry / Laura Beatty / Lesley Bishop / Aisling Coyle / Philip Deacon / Bernie Devilly / Sinead Doyle /
Neva Elliot McGinley / Evonne Ferguson / Caroline Feehily / Nigel Flegg / Majella Hollywood / Gareth Hudson / Paul Hunt /
Gerard Keenan / Catherine Kirby / Anthony Long / Annette Nugent / Aodán Ó Dubhghaill / Jane O’Leary / Jennifer Phillips /
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly / Mary Sexton / Gary Sheehan / Garrett Sholdice / Andrew Smith / Cathy Stokes / Joanne Taaffe /
Debbra Walters / Rosita Wolfe // We thank you and salute you.
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contents
Crash Ensemble Ghosts Films ........................................1
Sounds Like Art...............................................................2
Double Header................................................................3
Fidelio Trio: Commissions ..............................................5
Composers In The Classroom Gala Concert....................6
Entente Cordiale.............................................................7
Saariaho and Andriessen................................................8
Professor Bad Trip 1,2,3.................................................9
Totally Made Up Orchestra (Take 2)...............................10
Crash Ensemble Free State 11.........................................11
Ensemble Musikfabrik:....................................................12
Wertmüller/Zappa with Peter Brötzmann
Ensemble Intercontemporain..........................................13
Ergodos Presents: Morning Rituals ................................14
Hugh Tinney Plays Raymond Deane ...............................15
RTÉ Cór na nÓg and RTÉ Cór Linn ................................16
with RTÉ Contempo Quartet
RTÉ Contempo Quartet ..................................................17
On The Radar.................................................................17
Chamber Choir Ireland...................................................18
Out with a Crash ............................................................19
NMDX ............................................................................20
Timetable .......................................................................21

TICKETS
Online: www.nch.ie
By phone: +353 1 417 0000
In person: At the National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

Box Office is open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm,

two hours prior to Main Stage performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays, and one hour
prior to Kevin Barry Recital Room, John Field Room and studio performances on Sundays
and Bank Holidays.

Please visit www.nch.ie for all other information about your visit to the venue
during the festival.

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crash ensemble
ghosts films
Time and Date: 28 February / 1pm-10pm
01 - 03 March / 11am - 10pm
Venue: Various spaces, NCH
Tickets: Free, just turn up!

Crash Ensemble commissioned three Irish filmmakers, Jack Phelan, Oonagh Kearney and
Laura Sheeran, to create works in response to their 2017 Bedroom Community album,
Ghosts. These will be screened around the NCH throughout the festival.

Programme
Nico Muhly Drones, Variations, Ornaments / Jack Phelan
Valgeir Sigurðsson Ghosts / Oonagh Kearney
Valgeir Sigurðsson Past Tundra / Oonagh Kearney
Donnacha Dennehy As An Nós / Laura Sheeran

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Karen Power recording a frozen

waterwall by John Godfrey

Danny McCarthy

sounds like art

Time and Date: 28 February / 1pm-10pm
01 - 03 March / 11am - 10pm
Venue: Various spaces, NCH
Tickets: Free, just turn up!

An art exhibition for the ears! Sound art is a very direct way of engaging with art - you can
appreciate it with your eyes closed. We have gathered together three of Ireland’s foremost
sound artists to make new works for New Music Dublin and install them in individual
spaces within the NCH for you to explore and experience.

Programme
Danny McCarthy The Threshold Of Quiet
Karen Power location, location, location
Jürgen Simpson Quartet for Four Parallel Planes

“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise.

When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen
to it, we find it fascinating”
John Cage, Composer & Music Theorist

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Jennifer Walshe
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double header
The opening concert of New Music Dublin 2019 will premiere major new works by two of
Ireland’s most accomplished composers - both strikingly original and both performing live
on stage - with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Join us for a free drink during the
interval to celebrate a wonderful start to New Music Dublin 2019.

Time and Date: 8pm 28th February 2019

Venue: Main Stage NCH ​​
Tickets: €25 (Concessions: €10)

Jennifer Walshe The Site of an Investigation (World Premiere) 30’

The Site of An Investigation ranges wildly over our contemporary predicament, taking
in microplastics, Facebook likes, grief, precarity, interplanetary colonisation, artificial
intelligence and loss. The work is coloured by shifts between raw emotion and the blackest
humour. Mars Abú!

“Without a doubt, hers is the most original

compositional voice to emerge in Ireland
in the last 20 years.”
Michael Dervan, The Irish Times

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Fitzcarraldo
David Fennessy Conquest of the Useless​(World Premiere) 70’

I – Prologue
II – Caruso
III – Gold is the sweat of the sun, silver are the tears of the moon

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, with the composer himself playing
electric guitar, perform David Fennessy’s iconoclastic Conquest of the Useless,
a breathtaking, sweeping new work about a musician’s obsession with the
compelling vision of Werner Herzog.

The Conquest of the Useless – Werner Herzog’s account of the making of his film
Fitzcarraldo – has fuelled the creation of David Fennessy’s monolithic work of the
same name, which will be played in its entirety for the first time at New Music
Dublin.

The composer himself will play electric guitar with the orchestra, and is joined
on stage by Peter Dowling (electronics), singer Jennifer Johnston and actor Aaron
Monaghan.

Performers
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Peter Dowling electronics
David Fennessy electric guitar
Jennifer Johnston singer
Aaron Monaghan actor

Jean Deroyer conductor

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Fidelio Trio
fidelio trio: commissions
Time and Date: 1pm (50 mins), ​Friday 01 March
Venue: Kevin Barry Room
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

The Fidelio Trio, enthusiastic champions of the intimate and versatile piano trio line-up
(violin, cello and piano), bring together an eclectic range of new work by composers Ann
Cleare, Kevin Volans and Linda Catlin Smith.

Programme
Ann Cleare 93 million miles away
Kevin Volans Piano Trio No 3 ‘Le Tombeau des Regrets’
Linda Catlin Smith Far From Shore

Performers
Fidelio Trio
Darragh Morgan violin
Adi Tal cello
Mary Dullea piano

“The Fidelio Trio… faithful to the spirit and

transfigurative beauty of the music”
The Guardian

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composers in the
classroom gala concert
Time and Date: 2.30pm (60 mins), ​Friday 01 March
Venue: NCH Studio
Tickets: Free but ticketed

Following the culmination of the 2018/19 Composers in the Classroom project, Chamber
Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre are delighted to present a selection
of new works from participating students as part of the New Music Dublin Festival.
The featured works are a result of several months of workshops in schools throughout
the country, delivered by seven of Ireland’s leading composers, represented by CMC,
supplemented with singers visits from Chamber Choir Ireland wherein students were
coached in the creative process of composing for a SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) choir.

This project is delivered with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and The National
Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Composers
Deirdre McKay, Neil Martin, Elaine Agnew, Irene Buckley, Alyson Barber, Anne-Marie
O’Farrell and Eoghan Desmond

Performers
Elizabeth Hilliard conductor
Participating Singers: Gemma King, Sarah Ledwidge, Christina Whyte, Laura Lamph,
Stuart Kinsella, Shane Barriscale, Jeff Ledwidge, Eoghan Desmond

Participating Schools
Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch | St Colman’s College, Newry
Carrickfergus Grammar School, Carrickfergus | Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig
St Mary’s Secondary School, Mallow | Presentation College, Athenry
Sandford School, Ranelagh | St. Raphaela’s Secondary School, Kilmacud
Mean Scoil Mhuire, Longford | Convent of Mercy Secondary School, Roscommon

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Sylvia O’Brien
entente cordiale:
Royal Irish Academy of Music with the Paris Conservatoire

Time and Date: 2.30pm (60 mins), Friday 1st March

Venue: National Gallery of Ireland
Tickets: Free

For the first time, musicians from the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s Doctorate of Music
Performance course join forces with their counterparts from the Paris Conservatoire to
perform new compositions from Ireland, France, Finland and Holland in the magnificent
surroundings of the National Gallery of Ireland. The programme includes works by
the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, whose fascination with the painter Vermeer is
highlighted by New Music Dublin 2019 with the Irish première of Vermeer Pictures at the
National Concert Hall, and Amanda Feery’s Blood Under Winter-White Skin, which takes its
inspiration from Dorothea Tanning’s abstract painting À mi-voix.

Programme
Works by Amanda Feery, Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho and Louis Andriessen 

Performers
RIAM
Sylvia O’Brien soprano | Kenneth Edge saxophone | Adrian Mantu cello
Matthew Mazanek guitar | Alexander Bernstein piano

Paris Conservatoire
Pauline Kraus violin  | Gilles Breda flute | Adelaide Ferrière percussion 
Josephine Besançon clarinet | Jiwon Jang piano

Presented in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the
National Gallery of Ireland

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©Luc Hossepied

Hae Sun Kang

saariaho and andriessen
Time and Date: 7.30pm (90 minutes), Friday 01 March
Venue: Main Stage NCH ​
Tickets: €25 (Concessions: €10)

The second orchestral concert of New Music Dublin is another double-header, a fantastic
opportunity to witness the Irish premieres of major masterworks by our featured
International composers – Kaija Saariaho (Finland / France) and Louis Andriessen
(Netherlands).

Programme
Kaija Saariaho Graal théâtre (Irish premiere)
Louis Andriessen Vermeer Pictures (Irish premiere)

Performers
Robert Houlihan conductor
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Hae Sun Kang (Ensemble Intercontemporain) violin

Like his musical godfather Stravinsky, Andriessen renounces

as much as he embraces, and it is this tendency that gives
power and focus to his time-travelling journeys between late
Renaissance and jazz.
Daily Telegraph

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Crash Ensemble
©Ros Kavanagh

professor bad trip 1,2,3

Time and Date: 9.30pm (60 mins), ​Friday 01 March
Venue: NCH Studio
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

Everyone who has ever heard it remembers when and where they first heard Professor Bad
Trip: once heard, never forgotten. Without it, you’re a poorer person: once you’ve heard it,
you’ll never let it go.

Programme
Fausto Romitelli Professor Bad Trip: Lessons 1, 2 and 3 (Irish Premiere)

Performers
Crash Ensemble
Richard Baker conductor

“If you’ve ever wondered what classical music on drugs

would sound like, look no further than the mind-bending
sounds of Professor Bad Trip. Composed by the Italian
artist Fausto Romitelli who died prematurely in 2004,
Professor Bad Trip is where psychedelic rock lives on”
Ensembleoffspring.com

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Brian Irvine

totally made up
orchestra (take 2)
Time and Date: 10am-2pm Saturday 02 March (performance at 1pm)
Venue: Kevin Barry Room
Tickets: Free admission

One of the highlights of New Music Dublin 2018 Defrosted was when the wonderful
composer, conductor and animateur Brian Irvine gathered together over 30 musicians of
all ages, all skills and bearing many, many different kinds of instruments.

Within hours Brian had moulded this joyful and enthusiastic group into a cohesive and -
dare we say - tuneful ensemble, and in the process, created with them their own wonderful
composition.

Well … we’re getting the band back together, and we would like you to join us! Come and be
a part of it at 10am (see below how to register), or come and hear the finished results at 1pm.

Register to take part

Please email info@newmusicdublin.ie with your name and instrument of choice.
Musicians of all levels and all ages (we really do mean this!) are very welcome.

Performers
You and your new friends
Brian Irvine conductor

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Crash Ensemble
​c rash ensemble
free state 11
Time and Date: 3pm (60 mins), ​Saturday 02 March
Venue: NCH Studio
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

Venture with us further in to the new, with six commissions by emerging composers,

mentored by Irish composer Graínne Mulvey, as part of New Music Dublin and
Crash Ensemble’s commitment to encourage and support the next generation of
composers in Ireland.

The Free State composers for 2019 are Anselm McDonnell, David Bremner, Chris
McCormack, Guillaume Auvray, Elis Czerniak and Maria Minguella. 

Presented by New Music Dublin and Crash Ensemble with the support of NCH, RTÉ and
The Arts Council

Performers
Crash Ensemble
Richard Baker conductor

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©Jonas-Werner-Hohensee
Ensemble Musikfabrik

Peter Brötzmann
ensemble musikfabrik:
wertmüller/zappa with
peter brötzmann
Time and Date: 7.30pm ​Saturday 02 March
Venue: Main Stage, NCH
Tickets: €25 (Concessions: €15)

There is no band on earth like Musikfabrik, and there is no music on earth like Frank
Zappa’s. Very few concerts are truly unmissable – but this is one. Musikfabrik with Peter
Brötzmann. Unbelievably virtuosic, and completely unforgettable.

Programme
Michael Wertmüller antagonisme contrôlé (2013/14)
für Saxophon, Schlagzeug, E-Bass und Ensemble
Frank Zappa The Black Page  
attacca: The Black Page #1
attacca: The Black Page #2  
Revised Music for low budget orchestra  
Lemme Take You To The Beach  
RDNZL   
Echidna’s Arf (Of You)  
Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?  
Zugabe: Peaches en Regalia  

Performers
Ensemble Musikfabrik with Peter Brötzmann

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Emmanuelle Ophèle
©Luc Hossepied

Samuel Favre
music for small ensemble
and electronics:
ensemble intercontemporain
Time and Date: 9.30pm (60 mins), ​Saturday 02 March
Venue: NCH Studio
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

Whilst on the subject of unforgettable … members of the second contemporary music

supergroup of the night - Ensemble Intercontemporain from Paris - will bring their
immense precision to a late-night programme of the very latest in music from across
Europe and beyond.

Programme
Wolfgang Rihm Drei Vorspiele zu einer Insel
Philippe Leroux Air-Ré
Kaija Saariaho Dolce Tormento
Jean-Pascal Chaigne Hymne V
Javier Alvarez Temazcal
Louis Andriessen Woodpecker
Yoshihisa Taïra Maya

Performers
Hae Sun Kang violin
Emmanuelle Ophèle flute
Samuel Favre percussion

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©Marco Giugliarelli

Kate Moore
Nadah El Shazly

Laura Sheeran
©Alan Chies

ergodos presents:
morning rituals

Anna Murray

©Pearse Healy
Start time and Date: 10.30am & 11am​Sunday 03 March
Venue: Begins at the RHA (see nch.ie for details)
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

A programme of off-site shorts curated and produced by Ergodos for New Music Dublin 2019.

Following on from the success of the Secret Music Trail, presented at 2018’s New Music
Dublin Defrosted, Ergodos presents Morning Rituals, a programme of short performances
curated for New Music Dublin 2019. Taking place in characterful spaces in and around
the NCH on the morning of Sunday 3 March, these performances are about stepping back,
focussing in and transcending.

Morning Rituals brings together performances and new work by seven individual

and clear-voiced artists from around the world: cellist Kate Ellis, Australian-Dutch
composer Kate Moore, Egyptian musician Nadah El Shazly, Australian
flautist Lina Andonovska, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, composer Anna Murray, and
musician-filmmaker Laura Sheeran.

Programme
Kate Ellis solo cello
Music by John Lely and a traditional Irish air, alongside a new work by Kate Moore
commissioned by New Music Dublin & Ergodos.
Nadah El Shazly solo set
Music for voice and electronics by Nadah El Shazly, including new material commissioned
for this programme by New Music Dublin & Ergodos.

Michelle O’Rourke & Lina Andonovska voice & flute

Music by Meredith Monk, John Cage and Lachlan Skipworth, and a new work by Anna
Murray commissioned by New Music Dublin & Ergodos.

Laura Sheeran solo set

Music for voice and electronics by Laura Sheeran, including new material incorporating
visuals commissioned by New Music Dublin & Ergodos.

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Hugh Tinney
hugh tinney plays
raymond deane
Time and Date: 1pm (50 mins), ​Sunday 03 March
Venue: NCH Studio
Tickets: €15 (Concessions: €8)

Noctuary is a cycle of 12 pieces commissioned and played by pianist Hugh Tinney from
Irish composer Raymond Deane. First premiered in 2013 this is a wonderful opportunity
to hear this cycle of night-pieces for piano. Featuring two books of six movements each,
Noctuary is a varied, vivid and atmospheric representation of the dead of night.

Programme
Raymond Deane Noctuary

Performers
Hugh Tinney piano

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RTÉ Contempo Quartet

©Mark Stedman

rté cór na nóg

and rté cór linn with
rté contempo quartet
with Maeve Sheil double bass

Time and Date: 2.30pm (50 mins), ​Sunday 03 March

Venue: NCH, John Field Room
Tickets: Free (but ticketed)

It is with great delight that we welcome the two RTÉ youth choirs to New Music Dublin,
with a highly varied programme including two new commissions from Irish composer Elaine
Agnew, and a first performance of The Everlasting Voices by RTÉ Cór Linn member
Ferdia Ó Cairbre.

Programme
Wait and See Elaine Agnew
RTÉ Cór na nÓg | RTÉ Contempo Quartet with Maeve Sheil (double bass)
God of Rain Text by Matthew Sweeney, music by Elaine Agnew
RTÉ Cór Linn (NMD commission, World Premiere)
Smile Text by Matthew Sweeney, music by Elaine Agnew
RTÉ Cór na nÓg (NMD commission, World Premiere)
Dubula Stephen Hatfield
RTÉ Cór na nÓg
Orde-e Madukayan Folk Song arr. Maria Theresa Vizconde-Roldan
RTÉ Cór na nÓg
The Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre
RTÉ Cór Linn
Salmo 150 (Psalm 150) Ernani Aguiar
RTÉ Cór Linn
The Everlasting Voices Text by W.B. Yeats, music by RTÉ Cór Linn member Ferdia Ó Cairbre
RTÉ Cór Linn (World Premiere)
Our Deepest Fear Text by Marianne Williamson, music by Sue Furlong
RTÉ Cór na nÓg & Cór Linn

Mary Amond O’Brien conductor

Carole O’Connor accompanist

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RTÉ Contempo Quartet

©Mark Stedman

rté contempo quartet

Time and Date: 4pm (45 mins), ​Sunday 03 March
Venue: NCH, Kevin Barry Room
Tickets: €10 (Concessions: €8)

Welcome back Contempo! We are thrilled these masterful, engaging performers are
returning to New Music Dublin with another wonderful programme of premieres,
surprises, twists and turns by some of Ireland’s foremost composers.

Programme
Frank Corcoran String Quartet no. 4 “for my 75th Birthday”  (2018, world premiere)
Jane O’Leary the passing sound of forever (2016)
Ian Wilson Quartet no. 12 “Her Charms Invited” (2010)
Greg Caffrey Borne back ceaselessly into the Past (2018)

Performers
RTÉ Contempo Quartet

on the radar
Time and Date: 5.30pm (60 mins), ​Sunday 03 March
Venue: ​NCH, Kevin Barry Room
Tickets: Free

Are you a composer or performer navigating a career in the world of contemporary music?

Join us for this interactive session about how to get ‘on the radar’ of those who are in
a position to perform, promote and champion your music on the local, national and
international stages. This session will be led by NMD Festival Director John Harris, with
contributions from international delegates on the NMDX programme.
Presented in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland.

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chamber choir ireland

Time and Date: 7.30pm (90 mins), ​Sunday 03 March
Venue: St Anns Church, Dawson Street
Tickets: €25 (Concessions: €15)

Chamber Choir Ireland is joined by Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen for a thrilling and
varied concert of contemporary choral music.
One of the most renowned conductors in the international choral scene, Grete Pedersen
is Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and is founder
of the Oslo Chamber Choir which she directed until 2004. A highly sought after guest
conductor, Pedersen has worked with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir,
Netherlands Radio Chor, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Danish National Vocal Ensemble and
Choir, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Pro Coro Canada, World Youth Choir among others. This is her
first concert in Ireland.

Programme
Kaija Saariaho Nuits, adieux  “the choir sang as
Orjan Matre Orphic Songs Prologue, Rite, Hyphnos  to the manner born…
Louis Andriessen Un Beau Baiser
The effect of the music
Deirdre McKay (New commission)
is disturbingly moving”
Rhona Clarke The Kiss
Irish Times, November 2018
Maja Linderoth Sonnet form denatured prose

Performers
Grete Pederson conductor
Chamber Choir Ireland

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Louis Andriessen
out with a crash
Time and Date: 9pm (60 mins), Sunday 03 March
Venue: Studio Stage NCH ​
Tickets: Free (but ticketed)

New Music Dublin doesn’t go out quietly!

To mark the end of the festival Crash Ensemble, with an invited band of festival musicians,
join in a joyous rendition of Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union; a symphonic movement
for loud sounding instruments… with the emphasis on LOUD.

Originally written for the orchestra De Volharding (Perseverance), Workers Union (1975) is
a composition intended for any loud-sounding group of instruments; Andriessen did not
want to handicap orchestras by providing a list of instruments.

“This piece is a combination of individual freedom and severe discipline” its rhythm is exactly
fixed; the pitch, on the other hand, is indicated only approximately, on a single lined stave. It
is difficult to play in an ensemble and to remain in step, sort of like organizing and carrying on
political action” Louis Andriessen

Each ticket comes with a free drink and an invitation to the festival closing reception in
the NCH Studio.

Programme
Terry Riley  Loops for Ancient-Giant-Nude-Hairy-Warriors Racing Down
the Slopes of Battle
Louis Andriessen Workers Union

Performers
Crash Ensemble and guests

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nmdx
Time and Date: All day, 28 February to 3 March
Venue: In and around the National Concert Hall
Tickets: By invitation only

Presented by the Contemporary Music Centre in partnership with New Music Dublin,
NMDX is an international delegate programme of national and international music
presenters and broadcasters. 

This international programme, embedded in the New Music Dublin 2019 festival, invites
music presenters and broadcasters to experience the work of Irish composers and
performers LIVE in the festival. It also showcases additional Irish artists through an
audio-visual showreel, presenting a comprehensive picture of the diversity of the new
music landscape in Ireland. The dedicated NMDX 2019 hub will be open throughout the
festival, creating a space where composers, presenters and performers can meet, make
introductions, discuss and share their work, as well as take part in
speed-networking sessions.

Presented by the Contemporary Music Centre: www.cmc.ie

NMDX is supported by Culture Ireland.

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timetable
Thursday 28 February Friday 1 March

Around NCH Sounds Like Art Sounds Like Art

Crash Ensemble Crash Ensemble

Ghosts Films Ghosts Films

NMDX NMDX

Kevin Barry Room Fidelio

1pm

John Field Room

Main Auditorium Double Header Saariaho and Andriessen

8pm 7.30pm

NCH The Studio Composers in the Classroom

2.30pm

NCH The Studio Crash Ensemble

(Late Night) Professor Bad Trip
9.30pm

Outside NCH Entente Cordiale

National Gallery of Ireland
2.30pm

St Anns
Dawson Street

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Saturday 2 March Sunday 3 March

Sounds Like Art Sounds Like Art

Crash Ensemble Crash Ensemble

Ghosts Films Ghosts Films

NMDX NMDX

Totally Made Up Orchestra RTÉ Contempo with Frank Corcoran

10am 4pm

On The Radar
5.30pm

RTÉ Cór na nÓg/ RTÉ Cór Linn/ RTÉ Contempo

2.30pm

Musikfabrik
7.30pm

Crash Ensemble Free State 11 Hugh Tinney

3pm 1pm

Ensemble Intercontemporain Crash Ensemble and guests

9.30pm Out With A Crash
9pm

Ergodos Presents: Morning Rituals

10.30am/11am
Start at RHA

Chamber Choir Ireland

7.30pm

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