Free State is Crash Ensemble’s annual concert of up-and-coming composers. Selecting the most vibrant new music Ireland has to offer from over 100 open-submission entries, Free State 7 introduces you to the talented new names to watch out for.
Since Free State’s inception in 2006 Crash Ensemble have showcased works from composers who have gone on to become leading lights of the Irish New Music scene: among them, Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Julie Feeney, Garrett Sholdice, and Andrew Hamilton.
If there is a concert that showcases the future of music in Ireland, Free State 7 is it.
The programme includes works for classical instruments and electronics from Daniel McDermott, who released his first Album "fractal" in April 2011; Conal Ryan, architect ,composer and joint-winner of the West Cork Chamber Festival Composition Competition in 2011; Garrett Sholdice whose Tanka for Aki Takahashi was premiered by its dedicatee at Tsukuba Nova Hall, Japan, in December 2011; Irene Buckley whose work Miniatus was commissioned by the NJO (Netherlands Youth Orchestra), Jonathan Nangle, who represented Ireland for a second time in 2011 at the 58th International Rostrum of Composers, Eric Skytterholm Egan, an Irish-Norwegian composer whose work Non-Stable Equilibrium is based on the psychological notion of working memory; Sebastian Adams (Director of Ictus ensemble); Donal Sarsfield winner of the Priz Luigi Russolo; Emma O’Halloran, co-founder of SoundSet, and Enda Bates, composer, guitarist and lecturer, whose piece ‘Calls from the Fog’ uses multiphonics, a technique which allows the flute to produce several notes at once.
The Dublin Laptop Orchestra will also feature as special guests in Free State 7, ‘dueting’ with Crash on Alex Dowling’s ‘Recommended by Dentists’.
Free State 7 was guest curated by Andrew Hamilton (composer) this year in conjunction with Crash Ensemble. Crash premiered Andrew Hamilton’s commission ‘music for people who like art’ at Free State VI in 2011.
Crash Ensemble is Ireland’s foremost music ensemble and one of the best in the world, as recognised internationally. Crash Ensemble, an Irish new-music collective with international cachet and considerable chops. Washington Post, 2011.
Co-produced by the National Concert Hall Free State 7 combines a world-class ensemble with a world-class concert venue to bring our audiences the future of new music.
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In discussion:
The Contemporary Music Centre presents a pre-show discussion with Free State 7 composers and curator, 6.30pm, The National Concert Hall, Carolan Room. Free event.
Broadcasting
Free State 7 is being recorded by RTÉ lyric fm for broadcast on Nova, presented by Bernard Clarke, at 9pm on 3rd June. www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova for more details.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
FREE STATE 7
Thursday, April 5th, 7.30pm, 2012 | The National Concert Hall | Main Auditorium
Tickets €20/€15(conc.) available from www.nch.ie / 01 417 0000
Discounts apply to groups of ten or more.
PROGRAMME
Irene Buckley - Miniatus
Daniel McDermott - In this Skin
Garret Sholdice - Tanka for Aki Takahashi
Sebastian Adams - Miniature for Cello and Piano
Enda Bates - Calls from the Fog
Donal Sarsfield - Everybody knows everything
Emma O'Halloran - Truth and Beauty
Conal Ryan - Apertures
Eric Egan - Non-Stable Equilibrium
Jonathan Nangle - Where distant city lights flicker on half frozen ponds
Alex Dowling - Recommended by Dentists (feat. The Dublin Laptop Orchestra with Crash Ensemble)
Conductor: Gavin Maloney
Crash Ensemble:Emily Thyne -Violin;Larissa O’Grady- Violin; Lisa Dowdall- Viola; Kate Ellis- Cello; Malachy Robinson- Double Bass; Deirdre O’Leary- Clarinet; Susan Doyle -Flute; Roddy O’Keeffe -Trombone; John Godfrey -Electric Guitar; Owen Gunnell -Percussion; Andrew Zolinsky - Piano
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This concert is co-produced by The National Concert hall, in partnership with Lyric fm and the Contemporary Music Centre and supported by Dublin City Council.
