FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS
CURRENTS
PERFORMERS:
Richard Craig, and Composition Workshop Participants
PROGRAMME:
Seán O'Dálaigh, Music Current Commission (flute, electronics)
More composers and participants from the collaborative Composition Workshop to be announced in April 2020.
Seán O'Dálaigh, recipient of Music Current 2019 Commission, returns to Music Current Festival for the premiere of his new work with Richard Craig. Seán's music is deeply rooted in locality, installation practice, engagement with the performance space and special context of the concert as an event. In this new work, he draws together elements of dance, multi-media and collaborative practice to unveil a deeply resonant transcendent work.
The programme also includes new works developed in collaboration within the festival by selected composers and musicians participating in the Collaborative Composition Workshops with flautist Richard Craig.
Seán O'Dálaigh is a composer/performer from and based in Kerry, Ireland. His music is concerned with things like space, silence and the physicality of sound production. He has recently been engaged with a personal investigation of his practices relationship to place, heritage and the Irish language.
His practice includes writing for ensembles and musicians, composing for/collaborating with and performing in contemporary theatre and dance works and performative installations incorporating improvisation, electronic music and audience participation.
He has worked/work-shopped with, among others, RETRO DISCO, Switzerland, The Zafraan Ensemble (Berlin), Ensemble Meitar (Israel), DissonArt Ensemble (Greece), the Asko|Schönberg ensemble (Amsterdam), Musicatreize (Marseilles), the Kirkos Ensemble (Dublin), the Niuew Ensemble (Amsterdam), the Kelvin-Helmholtz ensemble, (The Hague/Amsterdam), Amit Dolberg, piano and Yoonhee Lee, violin. His works have been performed in Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Israel and Switzerland. As an improviser he has performed in Cafe OTO (London), the Dublin Dance Festival (2018) and at KFest Arts Festival (Kerry, 2018).
In January 2018, he founded the arts collective Éisteacht for the production and dissemination of new work centred in rural Ireland related to practices of Listening. Their first production, '(de)nature' was programmed at the KFest Arts Festival in Killorglin, Kerry, 2018, where it was selected as a runner up for the Screaming Pope Prize.
RICHARD CRAIG: FOUR FFFF
PROGRAMME:
José Manuel Serrano, New Work, flute and electronics (10') premiere-commission
Gilbert Nouno, Four ffff, flute and electronics (8') premiere
Fergal Dowling, Double, flute and electronics (12') Music Current Project Commission
Piaras Hoban, Feedback, flute and electronics (15') Music Current Project Commission
Richard Barrett, Vale, for amplified flute (13')
Richard Craig is one of the most adventurous and talented performers of contemporary flute music. His passion for new repertoire has led him to collaborate with many of the leading composers of our age as well as many of the new generation of younger composers. In this programme of very recent works, and mostly commissions and premiers, all specially written for him, Richard Craig is joined by composer/performer and computer music wizard, Gilbert Nouno in this exploration of new music from Ireland, England, France, and Argentina that engages all the technical resources of the performer, the instrument, and electronic music techniques.
Richard Craig studied flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Sheena Gordon and later with Richard Blake, continuing his studies at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France, with Mario Caroli. Richard has performed with groups such as ELISION, Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, The Estonian Radio Choir, the RTÉ Orchestra and Das Experimentalstudio Ensemble, which has taken him to international festivals such as Maerzmusik Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, the Venice Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Festival D'Automne in Paris and the Lincoln Center Festival New York. At the centre of Richard's work in contemporary music is the development of the new repertoire for the flute, and he is involved in commissions both with established composers and the younger generation of artists. Richard has recorded for the BBC, WDR Cologne, YLE Finland, Radio France, Radio Nacional de España, Swedish Radio, ARTE, Icelandic RUV, Wergo, Another Timbre. His solo debut disc INWARD was released on the Métier label in 2011 to critical acclaim. He appointed as Visiting Fellow in Performance at Aberdeen University 2009-11. From 2012-2014 he was a visiting lecturer on the Post-Graduate performance course at Huddersfield University, and further to this, he was appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the same University 2014-2019. Between 2015-2019 he was Head of Performance at Bangor University, Wales.
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