The Arts Council received 48 applications for the Music Commissions award, and has offered a total of 18 awards in response to the value of €126,000
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Recipient
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Description
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Artform/practice
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Location
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Amount Awarded
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Contact Contemporary Music
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To commission new work by Donnacha Dennehy for Contact. To establish a working relationship between the composer and ensemble. To introduce the composer to Canadian audiences through performance and recording. To increase the ensemble's international presence by working with composers from around the world.
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Music
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International
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€9,000
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Contempo Quartet Partnership
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To commission a new work of 14 minutes duration by John McLachlan. To expand the existing quartet repertoire and disseminate it in new ways.
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Music
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Galway County Council
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€6,000
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Cor Mhaigh Eo
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To commission Irish composer Garrett Sholdice to compose four new pieces for Cor Mhaigh Eo. Each piece to act as a companion piece to a Monteverdi madrigal in the choir's repertoire.
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Music
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Mayo County Council
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€4,000
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Cork International Choral Festival
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NCC and CICF to continue their joint commitment to commissioning choral works by Irish composers with a new piece by Enda Bates. To be premiered at the 2013 CICF and subsequently examined at the Seminar on New Choral Music -Written for SATB amateur choir, the work will benefit the wider choral community
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Music
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Cork City Council
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€2,400
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Crash Ensemble
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To commission a new work by David Flynn for Crash Ensemble. To be premiered in 2012-13 and incorporated into Crash’s repertoire for continued performance. Flynn’s work continues Crash Ensemble’s support of Irish composers and cross-music-genre collaboration by fusing Congolese soukous music with ensemble.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€10,000
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Ellis, Kate
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To commission Donnacha Dennehy to compose a piece for the cello and a soundtrack. To add to Dennehy's existing 'Overtone Series'. To premiere the piece at the Cork Opera House in October 2012 with repeat performances at Kaleidoscope, for Crash Ensemble, at Princeton University and a recording for Diatribe.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€7,125
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Ensemble Avalon
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To commission a new work for a piano trio by the composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly for performance in 2013. A companion piece to a 'A Space of Life Between', which was also commissioned by Ensemble Avalon.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€6,300
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Ergodos
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To commission the composer Simon O'Connor to create a large-scale work in three generations: for piano, electronics and ensemble. To culminate in a production in late 2013 held in Dublin and involving Ergodos Musicians. To assist the composer in a major development of his practice.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€7,500
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Irish Chamber Orchestra
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To support Irish composers and develop new Irish work for the Irish Chamber Orchestra. To Include new work in the ICO touring programme giving Irish audiences access to new Irish composition country wide. To explore the possibility of collaborating with dancer Colin Dunne in a new work
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Music
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Limerick County Council
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€8,500
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KammarensembleN
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To commission a percussion concerto from Kevin Volans. This piece will further his earlier ideas of spacial separation of small individual ensembles, while adding the element of a moving soloist. The piece would be premiered in Stockholm 2013.
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Music
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International
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€10,000
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Kilkenny Arts Festival
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To commission a new work by Michael Gordon - co-founder of the New York based new music collectiv Bang on a Can - for Crash Ensemble. It will be the first music commission undertaken by the Kilkenny Arts Festiva and will be part of the festival's 40th anniversary celebrations in 2013.
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Music
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Kilkenny County Council
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€10,000
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Knox, Garth
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To commission a new work for the viola by Irish composer Benjamin Dwyer. To expand the repertoire of the viola through a close collaboration with the composer. To promote contemporary Irish music internationally.
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Music
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International
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€7,500
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Roe, Paul
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To commission the composer Stephen Gardner to write a 10-minute work for bass clarinet and piano. To be performed by the pianist Finghin Collins and Paul Roe. The concerts will take place at the end of 2012/beginning 2013.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€4,000
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Sheil, Fergus
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To commission a new 10-minute work specifically designed for young players written by Brian Irvine. This piece will be built out of a specially designed set of creative workshops undertaken by the composer where the young musicians will be centrally involved in devising elements of the new work.
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Music
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Meath County Council
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€6,000
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Stichting Ensemble Klang
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To commission Irish composer David Fennessy to write a new work for Dutch contemporary music group Ensemble Klang. The new work will have a focus on electric guitar and will form a part of Amsterdam Electric, a leading international guitar festival staged at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.
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Music
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International
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€8,000
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Triocca
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To commission Irish composer John Buckley to write a work of approximately 15-minutes duration for the flute, viola and harp ensemble Triocca. The intention is to perform it to audiences around Ireland and UK and to eventually record the work so it can reach an International audience, promoting living Irish composers.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€8,175
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Vivre Musicale
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To commission Irish composer David Coonan to write a new work for Vivre Musicale that treats the topic of 'War and Peace' in a fresh, innovative, artistic and compositional way. To be included as a major and finely-integrated part of Vivre Musicale 2013 'War and Peace' Season.
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Music
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International
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€7,000
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Zolinsky, Andrew
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To collaborate with Irish composer Karen Power to create new, fresh and engaging piano music, which interplays Karen and Andrew Zolinsky's unique performer/composer skills. To record/perform a work fusing notated piano music with graphics, improvisation and live electronics.
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Music
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International
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€4,500
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