Eighth Blackbird at University of Michigan

Launched by Diatribe Records as part of the Culture Ireland GB:18 Programme in 2018, Éiríocht: New Music from Ireland is an international series presenting radical alternatives to perceived notions of “Irishness”.

The Éiríocht Berlin programme includes some of Ireland and Germany’s most internationally-renowned composers and performers

In this Schwartz-Artist-in-Residence Program, the Emory University Symphony Orchestra performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 and Viet Cuong’s newly orchestrated Vital Sines featuring the Grammy Award-Winning sextet, Eighth Blackbird.

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “...one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet,” they will light up the stage of The Nimoy with their forward-thinking music, innovative performative style, and their growing legacy of guiding an emerging generation of artists.

Eighth Blackbird in concert at Western Carolina University

Vital SInes with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago

A chamber ensemble at the cutting edge of modern classical music, Eighth Blackbird presents a concert of new music as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of BYU’s Barlow Endowment for Music Composition.

Marking 130 years since the publication of feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, Sue Rynhart’s melodrama takes the stage.

Settle in for some sensorially rich evenings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales this summer with a free program of performances celebrating the importance of music to the art and thought of Vasily Kandinsky.

Featuring commissioned compositions alongside classics from the early 20th century, Klänge (meaning ‘sounds’ in German) is a series of live music sessions, co-curated with percussionist and composer Claire Edwardes OAM and performed by virtuosic members of Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring in collaboration with Grammy award–winning, Chicago-based group Eighth Blackbird.

Settle in for some sensorially rich evenings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales this summer with a free program of performances celebrating the importance of music to the art and thought of Vasily Kandinsky.

Featuring commissioned compositions alongside classics from the early 20th century, Klänge (meaning ‘sounds’ in German) is a series of live music sessions, co-curated with percussionist and composer Claire Edwardes OAM and performed by virtuosic members of Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring in collaboration with Grammy award–winning, Chicago-based group Eighth Blackbird.

A show that brings contemporary flute playing to a new level, through a collaboration between composer, performer and movement artist. The world premiere straddles the world of avant-garde composition together with a new dimension of physical movement.

Featuring six trailblazing artists with exploratory music at the heart of their practice, Stone Drawn Circles inhabits a new space in Irish contemporary music. The players believe in rich composer/performer dialogues and in the bending of traditional performance dynamics, which is evident in their debut season offering. Breathing life into three World Premieres and a specially arranged work, the ensemble explores new modes of communication – between themselves as a collective as well as their audiences.

Irish National Opera presents La Bohéme. Puccini’s best-loved opera is touching, comic, realistic and romantic, true for any time in which deep bonds can flower in the face of adversity.

It’s an evening of joy, merriment, and music. Multiple Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird performs a miraculous new concerto for sextet and wind band.

Eighth Blackbird concludes a residency at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin with a performance of Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines.

Music for Flute and Harpsichord, with works by Anna Bonn, WF Bach, JS Bach & more. Part of the Vales Around Cloughlea Festival 2023.

Flautist Lina Andonovska and percussionist Alex Petcu come together for a lunchtime recital at Queens University Belfast of contemporary chamber works for flute and percussion. Music by Ned McGowan, Ann Cleare, Timo Andres and Teruyuki Noda.

Opening Night is anchored by Strauss’ monumental tone poem, evoking confidence, unrest, life, love, and serenity. Before that, GRAMMY® Award-winning Eighth Blackbird shares an intricate and eclectic piece featuring elements of classical, jazz, and popular music!

Opening Night is anchored by Strauss’ monumental tone poem, evoking confidence, unrest, life, love, and serenity. Before that, GRAMMY® Award-winning Eighth Blackbird shares an intricate and eclectic piece featuring elements of classical, jazz, and popular music!

Opening Night is anchored by Strauss’ monumental tone poem, evoking confidence, unrest, life, love, and serenity. Before that, GRAMMY® Award-winning Eighth Blackbird shares an intricate and eclectic piece featuring elements of classical, jazz, and popular music!

A new annual summertime festival celebration of classical, contemporary and folk music in the stunning surrounds of Co. Wexford.