Eighth Blackbird at Oregon State University
PRAx Presents: Eighth Blackbird + OSU Wind Ensemble
Stone Drawn Circles: Triskel Arts Centre
The Debut Tour of Stone Drawn Circles takes place at 3 venues across the country in May: Glór (Ennis), Triskel Arts Centre (Cork) and The Hugh Lane (Dublin). Hear premieres by acclaimed composers Nicole Lizée, Úna Monaghan, Cat Hope and Brian Irvine in an intimate, up-close-and-personal setting.
Stone Drawn Circles: The Hugh Lane
The Debut Tour of Stone Drawn Circles takes place at 3 venues across the country in May: Glór (Ennis), Triskel Arts Centre (Cork) and The Hugh Lane (Dublin). Hear premieres by acclaimed composers Nicole Lizée, Úna Monaghan, Cat Hope and Brian Irvine in an intimate, up-close-and-personal setting.
Stone Drawn Circles: Belfast
Stone Drawn Circles perform in Belfast as pat of PRS Beyond Borders Award
Blackbird Creative Lab
Annual summer festival, featuring Eighth Blackbird + Guests as faculty.
New Music Dublin 2024: Stone Drawn Circles
In Formation: Stone Drawn Circles
Programme
Úna Monaghan In Formation (2023) [Irish premiere]
Karen Power Can you hear me now??? (2019) [Irish premiere]
Brian Irvine A Call To Arms (2024) [world premiere]
Cat Hope Landay Sequenzas (2022) [Irish premiere]
Nicole Lizée Peril Earrings (2023) [Irish premiere]
Heralded as a ‘supergroup within new music circles in Ireland’ by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Stone Drawn Circles inhabits a new space in Irish contemporary music. In this late-night performance at NMD, the ensemble investigates new modes of communication, collaborative dynamics and shifting paradigms.
In spite of their relatively short existence as a group, Stone Drawn Circle’s debut performance season includes appearances at several prestigious festivals, and a PRS Beyond Borders tour of the UK. The ensemble believes in rich composer/performer dialogues and in the bending of traditional performance dynamics, which is evident in this launch-season offering—a trip through various genres and forms of contemporary sound art, performed by some of Ireland’s leading contemporary players.
Stone Drawn Circles are:
Lina Andonovska, flute
Nathan Sherman, viola
Michelle O’Rourke, voice
Alex Petcu, percussion
Caimin Gilmore, double bass
Úna Monaghan, harp / sound design
Brian Irvine's new work was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre for Stone Drawn Circles with funds from PRS Foundation Beyond Borders funding.
Stone Drawn Circles are supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
In Formation and Landay Sequenzas were created with the financial assistance of a Commission Award, funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhaírle Ealaíon.
Stone Drawn Circles: In Formation tour is project-managed by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, supported by PRS Foundation Beyond Borders funding.
Éiríocht
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
Eighth Blackbird at Emory
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.
Eighth Blackbird at UCLA
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 at Western Carolina University
Eighth Blackbird in concert at Western Carolina University
Vital Sines Concerto with Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Vital SInes with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Eighth Blackbird at BYU
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.
Eighth Blackbird: BYU Residency
Eighth Blackbird undertake a Residency at Brigham Young University, Utah.
Sue Rynhart: You, Me or the Wallpaper
Marking 130 years since the publication of feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, Sue Rynhart’s melodrama takes the stage.
Klänge: Ensemble Offspring + 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.
Klänge: Ensemble Offspring + 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.
Nournimity
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.
Irish National Opera: La Bohéme
The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by the girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty.
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.
Irish National Opera: La Bohéme
The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by the girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty.
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.
Irish National Opera: La Bohéme
The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by the girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty.
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.
Irish National Opera: La Bohéme
The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by the girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty.
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.
hcmf // Stone Drawn Circles
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: La Bohéme
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.
Eighth Blackbird with Dallas Winds
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 at University of Texas, Austin
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.
Vales Around Coughlea Festival
Music for Flute and Harpsichord, with works by Anna Bonn, WF Bach, JS Bach & more. Part of the Vales Around Cloughlea Festival 2023.
Lina Andonovska (flute) & Alex Petcu (percussion)
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.
Australian Flute Festival
The Australian Flute Festival is a biennial international festival. The 2023 Festival is a special
ALL-AUSTRALIAN festival. After years of division due to the pandemic, we are excited to call the whole Australian flute community together. Thus this year’s theme:
CELEBRATING RECONNECTION
Eighth Blackbird & Pacific Symphony
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!
Eighth Blackbird & Pacific Symphony
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!
Eighth Blackbird & Pacific Symphony
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!
Lina Andonovska & Michelle O'Rourke at FuddleFest
A new annual summertime festival celebration of classical, contemporary and folk music in the stunning surrounds of Co. Wexford.