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Interview with Hotter Than July Music Festival 2020


I spoke to the Hotter Than July Music Festival in advance of our gamelan performance (with only six members of our NCH Gamelan Orchestra performing, due to Covid restrictions).

Read my festival interview on their website.

Watch our concert performances on my videos page.

Writing for the Journal of Music on Music Education

I wrote this article for the Journal of Music discussing my Composition Workbooks for schools, my year as Composer-in-Residence at Caragh National School, Kildare, and running the Music Educators Orchestra.

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My Year as Composer-in-Residence in Caragh National School

CMC Article on my year as Composer-in-Residence in Caragh National School

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Artistic Residency with the Chopin Conservatoire Paris

I am delighted to be a visiting composer with the Frederic Chopin Conservatoire in Paris for their Clavier Contemporain Weekend in February. I first visited the conservatoire in December to run a week of composition workshops with the students.

As well as working with individual students, I took one class of young solfege (music theory) students for a group composition workshop. Using a few exercises from a composition workbook I had produced especially for the conservatoire, the class worked together to create their very first compositions. We wrote and recorded these two pieces in just over an hour. La Pluie is a piece about the rain, while SCREWADMACT (an anagram of the children's initials) is made up of two 8-beat loops.
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New Music Alive! Composition Workbooks for Schools

New Music Alive! Book 2
As reported in the Journal of Music , the second in my series of composition workbooks for schools has been released by the Contemporary Music Centre.

The new workbook offers teachers a simple and accessible guide to using electronic music in the classroom in eight easy lesson plans with accompanying notes. The workbook also includes online games, and composition "sandbox" and a special "Chill Out Set" for listening in class, as well as recordings of compositions made by primary school students.

This is a free online resource supported by the Contemporary Music Centre and Dublin City Council. It is the follow-up to my earlier workbook New Music Alive! Book One.

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Upcoming Events

Mar 7th-8th 2025

Event: ICTMD Conference
Paper: “Tradisi Baru”: The NCH Gamelan Orchestra's First Ten Years
Venue: Dublin City University

Apr 5th 2025

Event: New Music Dublin Festival
Composition: Beyond Yourself for cello and gamelan (World Premiere with Martin Johnson)
Performers: NCH Gamelan Orchestra
Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin

Apr 14th 2025

Event: UCD Trad Ensemble CD Launch
Performers: Paddy Glackin, UCD Trad Ensemble
Venue: The Sugar Club, Dublin

Apr 25th 2025

Event: UCD Composition Ensemble Concert
Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin

Apr 26th 2025

Event: All-Ireland Gamelan Gathering
Performers: Cork, West Cork, Limerick, Belfast, NCH and UCD Gamelan Orchestras
Venue: University College Dublin

June 3rd 2025

Event: NCH Gamelan Orchestra Concert
Composition: Beyond Yourself for cello and gamelan (with Martin Johnson)
Performers: NCH Gamelan Orchestra
Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin

June 4th 2025

Event: NCH Gamelan Beginner Classes Concert
Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin



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