New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground

Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry

New Music Dublin: A myriad of creative musical endeavours

With more than 20 events over four days, the festival features the best in contemporary music

Your idea of musical hell? – a Q&A for composers and musicians

International performers coming to Louth’s Stations of the Sun festival are put on the spot

The three best classical concerts in Ireland this week

Paul McNamara, Beckett Chamber Music Series and NCH Female Conductor Finale

Máire Carroll in the Kirkoskammer series: this week’s classical highlights

Also, Two-day festival in the Oriel from Louth Contemporary Music Society

Why are artists intoxicated with Samuel Beckett?

Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

Classical music round-up with Michael Dervan

A celebrated Swedish brass player, a master US percussionist and a Norwegian trumpeter

Is silence golden? Welcome to ‘the last frontier of music’

Ten years after I first heard of Wandelweiser, Louth Contemporary Music Society has brought it to Ireland

Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson/Sarah Rothenberg: Rothko Chapel – Album Review

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The spine-tingling gift of Dundalk mezzo soprano Tara Erraught

Having silenced a clutch of male critics, Erraught showed she has the X factor on stage at the NCH

The unpredictable sounds of an American Wolff in Dundalk

The composer Christian Wolff, of the New York School, was central to a memorable night in Louth

Ivan Ilic (piano): The Transcendentalist

Four views of Berlin, from east to west and music to museums

Who better to ask for a tour of Berlin than some of its finest musicians, the Vogler Quartet?