• Inventions: The Harpsichord Across Time and Borders
• Yonit Kosovske
• Evangelia Rigaki
• Janet Oates
• Fiona Linnane
  • CMC Composer Page
• Meadhbh Hayes
• Still, She Rises! concert - 23 March 2025

• ‘2 steep 4 sheep (some hills are)’ by Ailís Ní Ríain, performed live at Limerick City Gallery of Art by Yonit Kosovske on 7 November 2024
• ‘Keening’ by Evangelia Rigaki, recorded by Yonit Kosovske.
• ‘Leatherwing’ by Fiona Linnane, recorded by Yonit Kosovske.
• ‘Harpsitrance’ by Meadhbh Hayes, performed live at Limerick City Gallery of Art by Yonit Kosovske on 7 November 2024.

CMC’s podcast returns for 2025 with a recording taken from CMC’s recent Spring Gathering event featuring soprano Sylvia O’Brien and flautist Bill Dowdall performing Cathy Purcell’s ‘Droplet’. Winner of the 2024 Finding a Voice Composition Competition, Cathy Purcell also speaks to Jonathan Grimes about her experience composing the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

Show Notes

• Cathy Purcell
• Finding a Voice Composition Competition
• Finding a Voice Festival
• Evlana Ensemble
  • Sylvia O’Brien
  • Bill Dowdall

Music

‘Droplet’ by Cathy Purcell, performed live in CMC by Sylvia O’Brien and Bill Dowdall on 30 January 2025

For the final episode of amplify for 2024, Ian Wilson joins music journalist and contemporary music educator Tim Rutherford-Johnson for a conversation spanning his career and centred around a new essay commissioned by CMC. You'll also hear excerpts of live performances from the evening featuring Lina Andonovska (flute), Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin) and the composer himself, Ian Wilson (piano).

• Tim Rutherford-Johnson

• Ian Wilson

• • CMC Composer Page

• Lina Andonovska (Alto flute and piccolo)

• Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

You can order a hard copy of the essay here.

All music featured in this episode was recorded live in CMC's Library and Creative Space on December 6 2024.

Terra and Fuoco from I Quattro Elementi for solo violin - Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

Die Zwitscher-Maschine for solo piccolo - Lina Andonovska (Piccolo)

Spilliaert's Beach for alto flute and piano - Lina Andonovska (Alto flute) and Ian Wilson (Piano)

Recording and editing: Keith Fennell

Introduction: Jonathan Grimes