A conversation with composer and guitarist John Godfrey, Artistic Director of Quiet Music Ensemble, recorded in May 2025 ahead of the launch in CMC of two new albums on Farpoint Recordings - *Moon Phases* by Francis Heery and a remastered edition of *The Mysteries Beyond Matter*. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the episode includes an extract from a live performance recorded at the launch event with John Godfrey, QME cellist Yseult Cooper Stockdale, and Anthony Kelly and David Stalling of Farpoint Recordings.

Shownotes: https://www.cmc.ie/amplify/episode-125

• Music Current Festival
• Laetitia Deering
• Eamonn Keating
• Maximilian Marcoll
• Thilo Ruck

• Robert Finegan
• Jenn Kirby
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In the second episode of our New Music Dublin Exchange Showcases, Tadhg Kinsella, a classically trained percussionist and live electronics musician, performs a live improvisation using modular synthesisers. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.

Show Notes

• Tadhg Kinsella
• Dublin Modular

Music recorded at IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HW59.

Recording:

Keith Fennell and Garrett Sholdice

Editing:

Keith Fennell

This episode of amplify features a conversation and improvisation by violinist Cora Venus Lunny and pianist Izumi Kimura, recorded live at the Contemporary Music Centre’s Creative Space as part of New Music Dublin Exchange. Presented by Jonathan Grimes

Show Notes

• Cora Venus Lunny
• Izumi Kimura
• Invisible Resistances (Farpoint Recordings, 2022)
• Folding (with Anthony Kelly) (Farpoint Recordings, 2021)
• CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange

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Music recorded at CMC’s Creative Space, Fishamble Street, Dublin, 2 April 2025. Sound: Keith Fennell

Image credit: Paul Hillier's final concert as AD of Chamber Choir Ireland (In Illo Tempore, October 2024), filmed by Dominik Kosicki.

Conductor Paul Hillier, who up to 2024 was Artistic Director of Chamber Choir Ireland, speaks to Evonne Ferguson about some of the Irish composers and works commissioned and performed during his time with the choir. The conversation was recorded in October 2024 and features works by Gerald Barry, Siobhán Cleary, Rhona Clarke, David Fennessy, Andrew Hamilton, Stephen McNeff and Jennifer Walshe. Show NotesChamber Choir Ireland:

• Paul Hillier
• Chamber Choir Ireland

Composers featured in this episode:

• Gerald Barry
  • CMC Composer Page
• Siobhán Cleary
  • CMC Composer Page
• Rhona Clarke
  • CMC Composer Page
• David Fennessy
  • CMC Composer Page
• Andrew Hamilton
  • CMC Composer Page
• Stephen McNeff
  • CMC Composer Page
• Jennifer Walshe
  • CMC Composer Page

MusicIn order of appearance in the episode:

chOirland - David Fennessy
Letter to Michael - David Fennessy
Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffett - Siobhán Cleary (Live Recording)
Everything is Ridiculous - Andrew Hamilton
Schott and Sons Mainz - Gerald Barry
Long Time - Gerald Barry

The White Noisery - Jennifer Walshe (Live Recording)

Dives and Lazurus - Stephen McNeff (Live Recording)

Pie Jesu from Requiem - Rhona Clarke (Live Recording)

All music featured in this episode was performed by Chamber Choir Ireland under the direction of Paul Hillier.

• 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.