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McKenna theatre followed by a promenade
production of song, art, dance and performance
through the Arts Millennium Building, Psycholo-
gy Building and adjacent outdoor venues with
the NUI Galway Staff Singers, NUI Galway Dra-
ma and Performance Studies students and staff,
NUI Galway Arts Office and sculptor James
Flemming.
From Europe with Love
Tuesday 3 September saw the return of From
Europe with Love, our three-year lunchtime
concert project exploring the shared musical
heritage of the European Union. This past au-
tumn ConTempo Quartet performed repertoire
from Germany, Spain, Bulgaria and Sweden.
Our guest speakers for the latest set of concerts
included Dottie Knauer, a German national living
in Galway for over 30 years; La Rioja native Ju-
dith Alutiz of the Galway Cultural Institute; Am-
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Bulgaria to Ireland Gergana Karadjova and Swe-
dish-born author, playwright and translator Ann
Henning Jocelyn.
GMR was delighted to partner with Caprice Café
on this series to offer our patrons discounts on
post-concert meals.
Performance Season Launch
On August 26th we launched our 2019/2020
Programme of Events featuring 30 events
across Galway city and county with ensem-
ble-in-residence, ConTempo Quartet. This is
our first ever full-year programme with the
schedule of events running from September
2019 to June 2020. Contained in the pro-
gramme are our well-established series such
as Lunchtimes with ConTempo and 3 Kinds
of Music along with exciting new partner-
ships with Youth Ballet West and Cuirt Inter-
national Festival of Literature.
The programme launch coincided with the
launch of the Galway Music Residency’s new
logo and our revamped website.
This launch event was kindly sponsored by
Rúibín Bar & Restaurant on the Docks and
the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Dub-
lin.
Culture Night
On Friday 20 September, ConTempo Quar-
tet kicked off the day with a Culture Night
trail to workers in Parkmore Business Park.
Starting at EA with the sounds of John Wil-
liams’ Star Wars and moving on to Merit
Medical and finally SAP, this trail brought a
light reprieve through this coffee break mu-
sical trail.
GMR continued its Culture Night wanderings
with a lunchtime culture trail in conjunction
with NUI Galway, our long term Education
partner. The theme for this years’ lunchtime
culture trail was ‘movement’ and began
with ConTempo performing in the Siobhan
July-December 2017
July—December 2017
July—December 2019
Galway Music Residency Six Month Activity Report
Galway City Arts Officer James Harrold, GMR General Manager Maeve Bryne, Connacht Tribune Arts Editor Judy Murphy and GMR’s Artistic Chair John Caulfield at the launch of GMR’s 2019/20 season in Ruibin
RIGHT: ConTempo Quartet perform in the atrium at SAP
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Music & Musings The Galway Music Residency presented its
autumn 2019 series of Music & Musings in
partnership with the Contemporary Music
Centre which was held in the intimate sur-
rounds of The Black Gate in Galway City.
Beginning on Thursday 26th September,
composer Seán Doherty shared his piece
The Devil’s Dream. This work was paired
with excerpts from Smetana’s String Quartet
No. 1 From My Life. Discussions about the
works, the performance and everything in
between were led by Linda O'Shea Farren of
the Contemporary Music Centre with audi-
ence participation. The second concert in
the series on Thursday 14th November fea-
tured veteran Irish composer Marian In-
goldsby with her work Struck by a
Raindrop, which was first premiered in 1999
by the Jupiter String Quartet. Struck by a
Raindrop was paired by excerpts from
Britten’s String Quartet no. 3, and a lively
discussion ensued chaired by John Caulfield,
Chair of GMR’s Artistic Committee. Finally,
on Thursday 5th December, ConTempo
Quartet performed the world premiere of
Ed Bennett’s new work West Coast Sci-fi
Blues Trance for string Quartet which was
commissioned by the Galway Music Resi-
dency and Galway City Council Arts Office as
part of a three-year commissioning initia-
tive.
ConTempo Countywide Continuing our commitment to bringing
performances to rural centres, ConTempo
Quartet travelled to three communities
throughout the county over the last six
months: An Spidéal in July for Traidphicnic;
Portumna in September for the Shorelines
Arts Festival, and Campbell’s Tavern in
Headford in collaboration with Headford
Music Works in December for a fabulous
Christmas concert with their young perform-
ers.
This spring we’re visiting Kylemore Abbey,
Athenry and Oughterard !
3 Kinds of Music: Christ-mas Special GMR’s cross-genre series 3 Kinds of Mu-
sic was back in The Mick Lally Theatre on 14
December for a special Christmas edition
with curator Matthew Berrill employing the
talents of Cork musicians John Blek (singer/
songwriter) and Ciara O’Leary Fitzpatrick
(concertina) performing alongside the Con-
Tempo Quartet. GMR’s Artistic Committee
Chair John Caulfield joined the musicians to
sing some festive favourites to close out the
show (pictured below).
Join us again on Saturday 29 February at
11am for the first 3 Kinds of Music concert
in our spring series featuring jazz duo Cor-
mac McCarthy & Matthew Berrill and Gerge-
ly Kuklis (violin) & Ramin Haghjoo (piano)
duo, with special guest Gilles Dupuoy on
ocarina.
Silent Shorts Following on from the extremely successful
screenings of Nosferatu and The General in
2017 and 2018 respectively, GMR, together
with the Huston School of Film & Digital
Media & the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama,
Theatre and Performance, presented anoth-
er unique film event on the evening of Tues-
day 8 October 2019 at the O’Donoghue
theatre! ConTempo Quartet performed live
scores for the screening of three classic
shorts: Buster Keaton’s comedies One Week
(1920) and The Haunted House (1921),
along with Charlie Chaplin’s romance, The
Immigrant (1917).
GMIT Christmas Concert
The partnership with education partner
GMIT kicked off on 6 December with a pop-
up Christmas concert in the new library in
the Centre for Creative Arts and Media.
ConTempo is delighted to bring classical
music to the campus, exposing students in
the creative arts to classical music. We are
in consultation with GMIT’s cinematography
and documentary departments, to hatch
some collaborative projects with the quartet
in the spring and autumn terms of 2020.
This fruitful partnership will continue into
the 2020/21 academic year.
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An audience in The Black Gate for Music & Musings with Ed Bennett
ConTempo Quartet Perform alongside Buster Keaton in the O’Donoghue Thea-tre.
ConTempo in the library at the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT
Education
Apprentice Programme The Apprentice Programme is rooted in
GMR’s commitment to community and edu-
cation projects and provides advanced in-
strumental students and young profession-
als an opportunity to further their experi-
ence of ensemble playing. This year we
have a trio of trios, one senior ensemble and
two junior ensembles.
Dina Ryan, James Middleton, and Marcella
Barz formed the Zephyr Clarinet Trio at the
Technological University of Dublin while
studying with Dr Paul Roe. All three mem-
bers are multi-clarinettists and have ar-
ranged a variety of music for clarinet trio.
Marcella moved to Ireland to specialize on
the bass clarinet and is now working on her
Doctor of Music at TU Dublin and Dina and
James graduated from the Bachelor of Mu-
sic Performance degree in 2019 at TU Dub-
lin.
Junior Ensemble Burren Con Brio is made up
of three siblings, Shónagh (violin), Mia
(viola) & Euan (cello) who study with Coole
Music in Gort. All are members of Coole
Music’s Sonic Strings & Youth Orchestra and
Shónagh also plays with the Symphonic
Waves orchestra project for Galway 2020.
Shónagh and Mia regularly help with young-
er orchestras in Coole music. Euan is also a
member of the Voldemort String Quartet.
RFM Trio is a Junior Ensemble comprised of
three good friends: Rachel Kelly (violin),
Fionna McKree (violin) and Mark Kelly
(cello). The trio travel several times a week
to Athenry Music School for individual les-
sons and orchestra rehearsals and after
initially meeting in the school’s Creation
Orchestra in September 2018 the RFM Trio
was created and they meet regularly under
the mentorship of director Katharine Mac
Mághnuis.
Sym-phonic Waves
ConTempo continued to provide sectionals
and orchestral rehearsals to the orchestra
through the winter of 2019/20 and will as-
sist them further in the spring with a full day
of rehearsals on 8 March, to help prepare
this new orchestra to play with the RTE Con-
cert Orchestra in June 2020.
Junior Cert Workshop
On Tuesday 26 November GMR presented a
workshop for Junior Cert students from Gal-
way comprising 70 students from 5 schools,
in Dominican College, Taylors Hill. ConTempo,
along with music teacher and GMR board
member Marie Kerrigan worked through sev-
eral pieces of music which touch on musical
features which will be examined in June, with
a special performance of ‘Bohemian Rhapso-
dy’ at the end!
Due to the success of this workshop, it will be
repeated in Tuam on Tuesday February 25,
2020 for up to 100 students from 6 schools.
NUI Galway BA in Music
GMR with ConTempo Quartet has thoroughly
enjoyed working with the 1st and 2nd year
students of the BA in music, now into its sec-
ond year of existence. With Dr Aidan Thom-
son, director of the programme, ConTempo
have provided regular in-classroom work-
shops bringing students’ scores to life and
discussing the intricacies of music history,
theory and composition. We are delighted to
continue this collaboration into the academic
year 2020/2021.On Saturday 28 March 2020,
GMR team up again with Dr Aidan Thompson,
the director, BA in Music, for a taster work-
shop during NUI Galway’s Open Day. ConTem-
po will give perform for prospective students
following a talk from Dr Thompson.
MA in Writing
Continuing its long-standing partnership with
the MA in Writing at NUI Galway, ConTempo
treated the students to a wonderful perfor-
mance of a Brahms quartet to discuss the
theme of romance, during a workshop in No-
vember exploring the links between music
and literature. The collaboration will continue
this coming academic year.
MSc in Information Systems Manage-
ment
Our new website which was launched in Au-
gust was built by students from the MSc in
Information Systems Management. Thanks
Rose, Martin, Subhodeep, Lakhya
& Hemant!
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The Zephyr Clarinet Trio
RFM Trio
Burren Con Brio
Listen, Learn, Love Music...
News New Beginnings
This autumn saw the arrival of baby Rowan
to GMR Manager, Maeve Bryan. Maeve is
thrilled and enjoying her baby son who has
attended several concerts to date! In the
meantime, GMR has welcomed Anne McCa-
be on board as Acting Manager to manage
the residency during Maeve’s maternity
leave. Anne’s background is in television
and theatre but she is thoroughly enjoying
her exposure to the wonderful musical tal-
ents of the ConTempo quartet and their
busy schedule!
GMR announces new Com-mission In 2017, the Galway Music Residency, in
association with the Contemporary Music
Centre, launched a new concert series enti-
tled Music & Musings. This series aims to
present Galway audiences with new music of
the highest quality, (from Ireland and from
the contemporary canon internationally) in
an informal yet intimate setting, promoting
discussion with musicians, composers and
audience members.
Together with the Galway City Arts Office,
GMR has now commissioned three new
works for string quartet, all premiered during
our Music & Musing series.
On December 5th 2019 it was announced by
Galway City Arts Officer James Harrold that
Dave Flynn was the successful applicant for
the third commission in this series. Flynn’s
new work will be heard in late November
2020 as part of the autumn season.
Board Members
Keith Warnock (Chair)
Peter Allen
Sally Coyle
Linda O’Shea Farren
Marie Kerrigan
Patrick Lonergan
Jane O’Leary
Sara Stewart
Michael Cuddy
Sinead Hayes
Galway Music Residency
Staff
Anne McCabe,
Acting General Man-
ager
Julie Seagrave
Administration
Assistant
Galway ConTempo Quartet
Bogdan Sofei, violin I
Ingrid Nicola, violin II
Andreea Banciu, viola
Adrian Mantu, cello
We are proudly supported by:
T: +353 91 586706 E: in-
fo:@thegalwaymusicresidency.ie
www.thegalwaymusicresidency.ie
Anne McCabe introducing CTQ in St. Nicholas Collegiate Church
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Our Media Partner is:
Composers Dave Flynn and Ed Bennett
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