Had a lovely few days Cork International Choral Festival, stunning premiere of Gallagher by Chamber Choir Ireland Matthew Quinn. It was a real honour that Rory's brother Dónal + family attended along with poet tim macgabhann 𓂆. 14 years apart I have photos of 2 Rory sculptures, from each end of Ireland!

Chamber Choir Ireland give the second performances of my “I AM” and Gabriel Jackson “The Dancers Inherit the Party” alongside the premiere of Anselm McDonnell prize-winning “Gallagher”

📣This Friday Cork International Choral Festival - Chamber Choir Ireland perform the #worldpremiere of Anselm McDonnell's 'Gallagher' the winning entry of the 2024 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition💫
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Thank you to Ed at the Irish Examiner: interview about the upcoming premiere of 'Gallagher' this Friday Cork International Choral Festival, Chamber Choir Ireland & Matthew Quinn Centre Culturel Irlandais CMC Ireland Rory Gallagher Rewriting Rory

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Best wishes to the choir of St Luke's Bethesda Episcopal church, who are giving the US premiere of my piece, Psalm 16, in Maryland today facebook.com/stlukesbethesda

Honoured to have had my cello piece Bánú an Lae, written for Martin Johnson, nominated as part of Ireland's submission to the 2025 World Music Days festival alongside these fantastic composers! 🤩🤩🤩

A wee newsletter update from March - 4 premieres in London, a premiere in Hong Kong, 2nd album launch, 3 radio interviews, 2 reviews 🤯 anselmguitar.co.uk/2024/04/march-…

It was a pleasure to work with these fantastic performers and composers last week (in an unexpectedly sunny Dublin...) on new arrangements of Messiah for tenor/viola/accordion and my new piece 'He Hath Led Me'. Two packed concerts combining Händel and 5 contemporary premieres!

Thank you to CRASH ENSEMBLE for including my piece Cross-Purposes in their concert at Tampere Biennale on Saturday in Finland!

Back to early morning composing on trains!

Thank you CMC Ireland for hosting the album launch of Kraina with Moving On Music and also featuring it on their podcast Amplify this week. Have a listen below

JAM's 2024 Music of Our Time concert last week featured music by Toh Yan Ee, Steve Richer, Marisse Cato, George W. Parris, Anselm McDonnell, Christopher Churcher, Jonathan Woolgar, Tarik O'Regan & Isabelle Ryder. My spotlight:
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Thank you Shannon McNamee The Journal of Music for including my album Kraina on this round up of recent Irish releases journalofmusic.com/news/new-irish…

Last week we opened our 2024 season at a packed St Bride's Church, Fleet Street with a feast of new music from 10 contemporary composers. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!

Watch here to transport yourself back to ‘Music of Our Time’:
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Does anyone have any recommendation for pieces for 4 violins that I should check out? (Feel free to recommend your own) preferably under 15 minutes and acoustic or only very straightforward electronic setups. Am familiar with the Reich and Bacewicz

Fantastic concert last night with JAM thank you to Onyx Brass for an energetic performance of Rasp

Getting ready for 'Music of Our Time' at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street.

Anselm McDonnell Donald Wetherick Jonathan Woolgar George W. Parris Christopher Churcher Steve Richer Tarik O'Regan Onyx Brass Simon Hogan Sarah MacDonald

Snazzy pics from the Jerwood+ Jerwood Foundation show at LSO St Luke's last week - punchy programme curated by Anselm McDonnell, pictured here w Heather Roche #MattFarthing
Photos by Kevin Leighton

The politics of massed rapping - SIMON DUFF admires new work at the LSO Jerwood Composer + Showcase that employs rap, sampling and live music to explore unashamedly political themes
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Woo! Thank you to Simon Duff for this glowing 5-star review of Politics of the Imagination at LSO St Luke's 'These are three exciting rappers and three great musicians at the heart of a hugely memorable piece. This is a bold evening that fires the imagination.'