JD Vance’s arrival at the Washington venue sparked a viral drama. In Dublin, the National Concert Hall has suffered from decades of political indifference
Carol McGonnell performs Buckley’s new Clarinet Concerto as part of New Music Dublin festival 2025
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The acclaimed musician reimagines his album Peggy’s Dream with the National Symphony Orchestra this St Patrick’s weekend
The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month
The Dubliner is thrilling critics at his new musical home in Cologne but he still finds time to worry about Ireland’s cultural capital
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Composer Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast, then grew up in south Wales. His Irishness has become increasingly important to his identity
In Ireland, as an 18-year-old, he had been organist of Thurles cathedral and also taught at the Ursuline convent there, and he had been a violinist at the Theatre Royal in Dublin
Composer, arranger and performer on Riverdance’s effect on Ireland, contemporary trad music, AI and facing down eternity
New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
The tenor Gavan Ring on the work that he’ll be singing at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Good Friday afternoon
The Latvian mezzo-soprano, with her husband on the podium, was effortlessly attractive in her self-assurance and ownership of her surroundings
Show’s Irish half includes music by Ina Boyle and Charles Villiers Stanford
Playing Gerald Barry’s From the Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal double bassist is heroic in the face of impossible odds
Last October’s Haunted Dancehall featured over 25 dance artists taking over NCH and its grounds for a series of late night gigs
Me & My Money: John Finucane, artistic director of Music in Monkstown 2023
Siptu says members are frustrated by failure of management to address ‘psychosocial risk factors’
The National Symphony Orchestra churns through an extraordinary number of musicians. The New Zealand conductor rode the beast with some success on Friday
The Belfast native enjoyed a distinguished career which saw him work with the Ulster Orchestra, the NSO, Sadler’s Wells Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s first woman principal conductor on music, performance and the tingle factor
Why did national institution mark significant anniversary without involvement of an Irish composer, soloist or conductor?
‘Mixed emotions’ on National Symphony Orchestra’s move may resurface with future cuts
Died a month before poet brother Thomas and had just started work on 12th symphony
Artists from all genres share their favourite moments from within the hallowed walls
RTÉ NSO and National Concert Hall remain choked by the past in certain respects
Ad competition, licence fee evasion and ascent of Netflix complicate life at Montrose
Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy
Helen Boaden’s report reveals treatment of orchestras that is counter-productive
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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