This concert is part of a project created by composer, Ian Wilson, the contemporary music choir, New Dublin Voices, and flautist Lina Andonovska. Ian Wilson has composed, especially for this concert, a short work based on texts by Serbian composer Draginja Adamović. The main work is Luigi Nono’s ‘Das atmende Klarsein’, which has never been heard in Ireland before this project. It is a major work from his last decade, the libretto made from fragments of texts including Rilke’s Duino Elegies. It is particularly exciting to welcome Bernie Sherlock and the fantastic Dublin New Voices on their first visit to Bantry.

A fully improvised live performance experience, where music, drawing and movement interact in real time - creating a truly unique experience where nothing is fixed in advance.

Performers move freely among the audience, weaving violin, viola, flutes, percussion and trombone into a soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen: a fluid, hypnotic, bio-digital world is created using custom-built software that responds symbiotically to the evolving music and movement.

Every performance is distinct, and the audience is integral to this shared, multi-sensory creative process where sound, image, gesture and atmosphere emerge in response to the present moment.

Fingerprints is part of ongoing collaborative research that explores drawing as a responsive system shaped by sound, movement and live performance. At its core is a custom-built computational drawing system that reacts in real time to acoustic instruments and gesture. Rather than treating audio and video as simple control signals, it is tuned to register nuance (intensity, articulation, rhythm, and texture) so that marks emerge through interaction and improvisation.

The resulting visuals are residue rather than representation - records of interaction over time. In this context, “fingerprints” refers not to biometrics, but to the human specificity of live performance: timing, touch, hesitation and collaboration - traces of decisions made together in the moment.

With Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin/viola), Steve Meyfroidt (visuals), Lina Andonovska (flutes), Alex Petcu (percussion), Ross Lyness (trombone) and Davide Marinelli (dance/movement)

Supported by an MTU Arts Office Create Le Chéile Arts Project Award.

A fully improvised live performance experience, where music, drawing and movement interact in real time - creating a truly unique experience where nothing is fixed in advance.

Performers move freely among the audience, weaving violin, viola, flutes, percussion and trombone into a soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen: a fluid, hypnotic, bio-digital world is created using custom-built software that responds symbiotically to the evolving music and movement.

Every performance is distinct, and the audience is integral to this shared, multi-sensory creative process where sound, image, gesture and atmosphere emerge in response to the present moment.

Fingerprints is part of ongoing collaborative research that explores drawing as a responsive system shaped by sound, movement and live performance. At its core is a custom-built computational drawing system that reacts in real time to acoustic instruments and gesture. Rather than treating audio and video as simple control signals, it is tuned to register nuance (intensity, articulation, rhythm, and texture) so that marks emerge through interaction and improvisation.

The resulting visuals are residue rather than representation - records of interaction over time. In this context, “fingerprints” refers not to biometrics, but to the human specificity of live performance: timing, touch, hesitation and collaboration - traces of decisions made together in the moment.

With Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin/viola), Steve Meyfroidt (visuals), Lina Andonovska (flutes), Alex Petcu (percussion), Ross Lyness (trombone) and Davide Marinelli (dance/movement)

Supported by an MTU Arts Office Create Le Chéile Arts Project Award.

In the hauntingly beautiful world of Bellini’s Norma, a Druid high priestess is torn between her sacred vows and forbidden love for an enemy commander. Norma has secretly had two children with her Roman lover, but when he turns his affections to another, his betrayal ignites a harrowing chain of events, forcing her to contemplate unthinkable revenge.

From the iconic aria “Casta diva” to the opera’s devastating finale, Bellini’s score is a masterwork of bel canto brilliance with some of opera’s most emotionally charged music. Every note reveals the raw, human cost of love and sacrifice.

Georgian soprano Salome Jicia sings Norma, a tour de force role of vocal artistry made famous by Maria Callas. Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang (La traviata 2024), described by the New York Times as “a born bel canto tenor” is Pollione, the Roman commander.

Norma is conducted by Maurizio Benini. Long-time INO collaborator Orpha Phelan (La bohème 2023, Don Pasquale 2022 & Cinderella 2019) directs, with set & costume design by Madeleine Boyd. Featuring the Irish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Norma is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Ian Wilson: Adam’s Rib (world première)
Luigi Nono: Das atmende Klarsein (Irish première)

DICMF is proud to collaborate with composer Ian Wilson and West Cork Music in the presentation of Luigi Nono’s profound and rarely performed masterpiece, Das atmende klarsein. Composed for small choir, bass flute, tape and live electronics, Das atmende klarsein features flautist Lina Andonovska and New Dublin Voices under the direction of Bernie Sherlock.

This significant and ethereal work, receiving its Irish première in the spectacular setting of Dublin Castle’s Chapel Royal, is performed alongside a new work by Wilson, Adam’s Rib, which sets texts by Serbian composer Draginja Adamović – terse, hallucinatory poems in which time unravels and reality fractures into images both cosmic and broken, intimate and unafraid of the dark.

Funded by an Arts Council Music Project Award

In the hauntingly beautiful world of Bellini’s Norma, a Druid high priestess is torn between her sacred vows and forbidden love for an enemy commander. Norma has secretly had two children with her Roman lover, but when he turns his affections to another, his betrayal ignites a harrowing chain of events, forcing her to contemplate unthinkable revenge.

From the iconic aria “Casta diva” to the opera’s devastating finale, Bellini’s score is a masterwork of bel canto brilliance with some of opera’s most emotionally charged music. Every note reveals the raw, human cost of love and sacrifice.

Georgian soprano Salome Jicia sings Norma, a tour de force role of vocal artistry made famous by Maria Callas. Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang (La traviata 2024), described by the New York Times as “a born bel canto tenor” is Pollione, the Roman commander.

Norma is conducted by Maurizio Benini. Long-time INO collaborator Orpha Phelan (La bohème 2023, Don Pasquale 2022 & Cinderella 2019) directs, with set & costume design by Madeleine Boyd. Featuring the Irish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Norma is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

In the hauntingly beautiful world of Bellini’s Norma, a Druid high priestess is torn between her sacred vows and forbidden love for an enemy commander. Norma has secretly had two children with her Roman lover, but when he turns his affections to another, his betrayal ignites a harrowing chain of events, forcing her to contemplate unthinkable revenge.

From the iconic aria “Casta diva” to the opera’s devastating finale, Bellini’s score is a masterwork of bel canto brilliance with some of opera’s most emotionally charged music. Every note reveals the raw, human cost of love and sacrifice.

Georgian soprano Salome Jicia sings Norma, a tour de force role of vocal artistry made famous by Maria Callas. Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang (La traviata 2024), described by the New York Times as “a born bel canto tenor” is Pollione, the Roman commander.

Norma is conducted by Maurizio Benini. Long-time INO collaborator Orpha Phelan (La bohème 2023, Don Pasquale 2022 & Cinderella 2019) directs, with set & costume design by Madeleine Boyd. Featuring the Irish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Norma is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

A Gala Concert with Rolando Villazón and Paula Murrihy.

Irish National Opera brings together two world-famous artists for an evening of vocal fireworks and rapturous music in Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre. 

With his trademark charisma and “grandezza, elegance and power” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón has thrilled audiences across the globe with soaring tenor arias that combine passion, lyricism and irresistible charm. Renowned for his electrifying stage presence and heartfelt artistry, Villazón is hailed by The Times as “the most charming of today’s divos”.  

Alongside him, celebrated Irish mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy, a homegrown star with a luminous international career, showcases her radiant tone and expressive vocal talent. Equally at home in moments of intimate stillness or blazing intensity, The Irish Times has praised her thrilling presence while The Guardian has lauded her “immaculate sense of line… and dazzling colouratura technique”.  

In the hauntingly beautiful world of Bellini’s Norma, a Druid high priestess is torn between her sacred vows and forbidden love for an enemy commander. Norma has secretly had two children with her Roman lover, but when he turns his affections to another, his betrayal ignites a harrowing chain of events, forcing her to contemplate unthinkable revenge.

From the iconic aria “Casta diva” to the opera’s devastating finale, Bellini’s score is a masterwork of bel canto brilliance with some of opera’s most emotionally charged music. Every note reveals the raw, human cost of love and sacrifice.

Georgian soprano Salome Jicia sings Norma, a tour de force role of vocal artistry made famous by Maria Callas. Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang (La traviata 2024), described by the New York Times as “a born bel canto tenor” is Pollione, the Roman commander.

Norma is conducted by Maurizio Benini. Long-time INO collaborator Orpha Phelan (La bohème 2023, Don Pasquale 2022 & Cinderella 2019) directs, with set & costume design by Madeleine Boyd. Featuring the Irish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Norma is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

In the hauntingly beautiful world of Bellini’s Norma, a Druid high priestess is torn between her sacred vows and forbidden love for an enemy commander. Norma has secretly had two children with her Roman lover, but when he turns his affections to another, his betrayal ignites a harrowing chain of events, forcing her to contemplate unthinkable revenge.

From the iconic aria “Casta diva” to the opera’s devastating finale, Bellini’s score is a masterwork of bel canto brilliance with some of opera’s most emotionally charged music. Every note reveals the raw, human cost of love and sacrifice.

Georgian soprano Salome Jicia sings Norma, a tour de force role of vocal artistry made famous by Maria Callas. Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang (La traviata 2024), described by the New York Times as “a born bel canto tenor” is Pollione, the Roman commander.

Norma is conducted by Maurizio Benini. Long-time INO collaborator Orpha Phelan (La bohème 2023, Don Pasquale 2022 & Cinderella 2019) directs, with set & costume design by Madeleine Boyd. Featuring the Irish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Norma is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Featuring the music of Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Eighth Blackbird and San Fermin explore a world where every conclusion is a catalyst, and the end is simply the beginning.

Beginning with a short work for solo piano entitled “Farewell,” this program begins with an ending. But just as any end brings a new beginning, this is a celebration of music’s ability to create beauty from brokenness and community from loss. Gradually, the group of performers grows: first, in a duet for flute and vibraphone entitled “Free Dive” that conjures a breathless plummet into deep water and the hallucinogenic state that divers describe upon reaching the bottom. Next, a trio for violin, cello, and piano called Past Life that imagines the changing life of a sacred space over many years. The first half of the concert culminates in the world premiere of a new work for the full sextet by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, written for this occasion. The second half of the program sees Eighth Blackbird joined by Ludwig-Leone’s band San Fermin, performing songs from their most recent album Arms, which was written by Ludwig-Leone during a tumultuous period following a couple of breakups. Hailed as “masters of highbrow chamber pop” by Rolling Stone, San Fermin’s music lends itself equally well to the concert hall or the festival stage. In this intimate evening of chamber music and songs, genre distinctions are disregarded in favor of storytelling, and a recognition of the alchemical power of music to transform loss into something life-affirming and communal. What emerges is not a linear arc but a cycle—an ending that generates motion, a farewell that becomes the energy required to begin again.

Diatribe Records present a double-bill of ‘Wind Songs’, a collection of string and voice duos by composer Garth Knox, alongside Sky Rivers, a new wind trio composed of Li-chin Li, Lina Andonovska and Nick Roth.

Kinetic Machine: Designed to work, run, dive, and fly, operating relentlessly forward. An engine that is switched on and can’t be stopped, with the consequences of unfolding cause and effect. Music engineered with the interlocking gears of Reich. Set in motion by Guthrie, Ludwig-Leone, and Lang. The program is the system of an impossible machine all propelled forward by Eighth Blackbird.

Program:

Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967)

April Dawn Guthrie: Boarding School Run (2024)

Ellis Ludwig-Leone: Free Dive (2023)

Steve Reich: 4 Organs (1970)

David Lang: Learn To Fly (2019)

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

Solo recital featuring a mix of early and modern flute repertoire. Programme TBC.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

New York tenor Ryan Capozzo is the Prince, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the witch Ježibaba and Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica as Rusalka's father, Vodník. Soprano Giselle Allen is the Foreign Princess with baritone Benjamin Russell as the Gamekeeper. Completing the ensemble are sopranos Rachel Croash and Sarah Richmond and mezzo-soprano Alexandra Urquiola as the Wood Nymphs.

Direction and design are by the visionary Netia Jones, who co-created and directed INO’s Olivier award nominated Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. INO’s Artistic Director Fergus Sheil conducts the INO Orchestra and Chorus.

Experience the world premiere of Performance Fingerprints, an immersive live event where music and visual art meet in spontaneous conversation.

Drop by The Crush at 3.15pm or 6.15pm for a free pop-up performance where visual artist Heidi Nguyen free-paints and draws in real time as musicians perform entirely from their imaginations. Each performance runs for approximately 30 minutes.

Then join us in our Upstairs Theatre for a ticketed, immersive experience. Musicians move among the seated audience, weaving the tones and textures of flutes, violin, viola, trombone, and percussion into a fully improvised soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen, visual artist Steve Meyfroidt shapes fluid, bio-digital worlds using custom-built software, responding symbiotically to the evolving music.

Nothing is pre-determined. Every performance is unique, and you, the audience, are an integral part of a shared creative process where multi-sensory art is shaped and experienced in the moment.

Experience the world premiere of Performance Fingerprints, an immersive live event where music and visual art meet in spontaneous conversation.

Drop by The Crush at 3.15pm or 6.15pm for a free pop-up performance where visual artist Heidi Nguyen free-paints and draws in real time as musicians perform entirely from their imaginations. Each performance runs for approximately 30 minutes.

Then join us in our Upstairs Theatre for a ticketed, immersive experience. Musicians move among the seated audience, weaving the tones and textures of flutes, violin, viola, trombone, and percussion into a fully improvised soundscape that feels both contemporary and nostalgic. On a large screen, visual artist Steve Meyfroidt shapes fluid, bio-digital worlds using custom-built software, responding symbiotically to the evolving music.

Nothing is pre-determined. Every performance is unique, and you, the audience, are an integral part of a shared creative process where multi-sensory art is shaped and experienced in the moment.

"Lucid Dream" - for fixed media video (video by current.cam)
"We're in this together" tape and live audience smartphone interaction.
"Take your time… hurry-up!" for bass flute and electronics (performance by Emory faculty Lina Andonovska)

About the concert
Composer and sound artist Davor Vincze presents an evening of immersive electronic and audiovisual works that blur the boundaries between concert music, video art, and interactive technology. The program features Lucid Dream, an AI-generated visual and musical collaboration with the artist collective current.cam, originally created for the transdisciplinary work manteia (2024). This is followed by We’re in this together, a 4-channel electronic piece developed for NIME 2025, inviting the audience to participate via smartphones in shaping the sonic outcome. The concert concludes with Take Your Time… Hurry Up!, a bass flute and electronics work inspired by Vincze’s teenage obsession with Nirvana, performed by the acclaimed flutist Lina Andonovska. The piece offers a playful yet intricate exploration of extended techniques and hidden pop-cultural references.

Emily Threinen, conductor
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Yusri Muhamad, conductor
Eighth Blackbird, guest artists

Join us at our “Vitality” concert where the University Wind Ensemble presents a variety of repertoire in collaboration with guest artists Eighth Blackbird, faculty conductor Jerry Luckhardt, and doctoral candidate conductor Yusri Muhamad. Repertoire includes Bjork Guðmundsdóttir’s Overture from Dancer in the Dark, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Scherzo alla Marcia, Carlos Simon’s Sweet Chariot, Ida Gotkovsky’s Poeme Du Feu, and Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines.

This School of Music event is free & open to the public. A livestream will be available (click on the Ted Mann Concert Hall link in the right callout box). 

Lina Andonovska - flutes

Dario Calderone- double bass

Cathal Roche -saxophones

Alex Petcu- percussion

Justine Cooper -choreography/dancer

Necromancer is a bold new interdisciplinary performance work, created by six leading artists in music and movement. Conceived as a musical ‘exorcism’, the piece responds to a series of haunting photographs taken during the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura, who settled south of Dublin in the late 1960s. Blending composed and improvised music with physical performance, Necromancer channels a collective ritual of memory, witness and transformation.

Ian Wilson is one of Ireland’s most distinctive contemporary composers, whose emotionally resonant and structurally daring works explore life, loss, the limits of listening, and a borderless approach to musical language.

Dario Calderone is an acclaimed Italian double bassist known for his compelling solo performances, technical command, and visionary interpretations of the most demanding contemporary repertoire.

Lina Andonovska is a fearless Australian flautist whose genre-crossing virtuosity and deep commitment to new music have made her a leading voice on stages from the Sydney Opera House to experimental spaces across Europe and the USA.

Cathal Roche is a boundary-pushing Irish saxophonist and composer whose work fuses improvisation, electronics and text with an instinctive sensitivity to space and narrative.

Alex Petcu is a dynamic Irish percussionist whose expressive precision and adventurous programming have made him a key figure in Ireland’s contemporary music scene and a sought-after collaborator for new and experimental work.

Justine Cooper is a Dublin-based choreographer whose multidisciplinary practice draws on movement, sound and visual art to create atmospherically charged performance works with powerful emotional and political resonance.

Necromancer is a powerful new performance work exploring trauma, memory and transformation through music and movement — inspired by photographs from the Troubles by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura.

Six extraordinary artists. One collective exorcism.
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