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Aéra Kai Chordés
(2019)
hn tb va
Duration: 11′
Agglomeration
(2007)
cl (+bcl) acc vn vc
Duration: 9′
Commissioned by Concorde and Music for Galway
Première: 16 September 2007, Music for Galway 27th International Concert Series, Norman Villa Gallery, Galway
Concorde
Paul Roe (cl+bcl), Dermot Dunne (acc), Brona Fitzgerald (vn) and Martin Johnson (vc)
Alluvion
(2013)
fl (+afl, picc) trb pf perc
Duration: 10′
Commissioned by Dr John McLachlan with funding provided by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 19 May 2014, Project Evolution, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Susan Doyle (fl), Roddy O’Keefe (trb), Richard O’Donnell (perc), Ryan Molloy (pf)
Arabesques
(2017)
vn vc
Duration: 9′
Commissioned by Thérèse Fahy, with funds provided by The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon
Première: 31 May 2018, National Concert Hall, Dublin
Elaine Clark (vn), Martin Johnson (vc)
Arachnid
(1991)
vc perc
Duration: 7′
Première: 19 January 1992, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Concorde
Elaine Clark (vn), Martin Johnson (vc)
Capriccio
(1990)
cl (or sop sax) pf
Duration: 7′
Première: 15 October 1990, Dublin Corporation Central Library, ILAC Centre, Dublin
Kenneth Edge (sax), Anthony Byrne (pf)
Casa Voodoo
(1999)
tbn perc (vib, glock, tam-tam, cyms, crot, wood blocks, maracas, toms, cowbells)
Duration: 10′
Première: 26 October 1999, Arts Centre, York
Barrie Webb (trb), Liz Davies (perc)
Chase
(2001)
vn vib
Duration: 10′
Première: 6 September 2001, Rathouse, Schwaz, Austria
Barbara Stuhr (vn), Gerard Gruber (vib)
Dedication
(2009)
fl (+picc, bfl) pf
Duration: 6′
Commissioned by RTÉ lyric fm, on the occasion of Professor Boguslaw Schaeffer’s eightieth birthday
Première: 22 August 2009, Malerwinkel, Rattenberg am Inn, Austria
Joe O’Farrell (fl), Slawomir Zubrzycki (pf)
Defiance
(1997)
a-sax vc pf
Duration: 6′
Commissioned by John-Edward Kelly for the Alloys Ensemble
Duo
(2001)
vn vc
Duration: 10′
Première: 18 July 2004. Galway Arts Centre
Duo
(2004)
bcl acc
Duration: 3′
Première: 17 July 2004, Galway Arts Centre
Paul Roe (cl), Dermot Dunne (acc)
Eclipse
(2012)
vc pf
Emergence
(2018)
wind quintet
Duration: 11′
Commissioned by Robert Coleman & Sebastian Adams for the Kirkos Ensemble with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 16 September 2018, The Fumbally, Dublin 8
Kirkos Ensemble
Entropy
(2009)
str quartet
Duration: 8′
Commissioned by The Contemporary Music Centre and Galway Ensemble-in-Residence, with funding from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 19 March 2009, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
ConTempo String Quartet
Chaotic Landscape
(2013)
vn org
Duration: 9′
Première: 6 July 2014, St Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Bogdan Sofei (vn), Thomas Charles Marshall (org)
Fantasia per Natale
(2013)
sax quartet
Duration: 10′
Commissioned by Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica
Première: 18 December 2013, Santa Agnese in Agone, Rome
Kommandaria Saxophone Quartet
Jealous Moon
(2001 rev. 2002)
fl (+picc, afl) cl (+bcl, rainmaker), vn, vc
Duration: 12′
Commissioned by Concorde and Carlow County Council with funds provided by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 6 May 2001, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Concorde
Madeleine Staunton (fl), Paul Roe (cl), Elaine Clark (vn), David James (vc)
Limits
(2017)
4 pf
Duration: 7′
Première: December 1992. Harty Room, Belfast
QUB Ensemble
LUCA
(2017)
fl (+picc) bcl vn vc pf
Duration: 12′
Première: 12 April 2018, Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Aisling Agnew (fl), Sarah Watts (bcl), Joanne Quigley McParland (vn), David McCann (vc), Daniel Browell (pf)
conducted by Sinéad Hayes
Recording: Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble – A Terrible Beauty Diatribe DIACD034
Digital album or limited edition double CD
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Maelstrom
(1996)
str quartet
Duration: 8′
Miniature
(1997)
picc bcl hn vn vc
Duration: 3′
Mood Swings
(1994)
fl vn vc
Duration: 15′
Commissioned by Concorde with funds provided by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 2 October 1994, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Concorde
Madeleine Staunton (fl), Alan Smale (vn), David James (vc)
Plurabelle
(2013)
cl (+bcl) pf
Duration: 7′
Première: 17 March 2013, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Paul Roe (cl), Finghin Collins (pf)
Rational Option Insanity
(1993)
ob cl hn vn pf
Duration: 6′
Première: 22 January 1994, Composers’ Class, RTE Musician of the Future Competition, Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin
Degani Ensemble
Rational Option Insanity – chamber works by Gráinne Mulvey & Deirdre Gribbin Black Box BBM 1015
Rêverie
(1994)
str quartet
Duration: 5′
Première: 16 June 1995, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York University
Nicky Haire (vn), Richard Whalley (vn), Clare Catchpole (va), Lucy Blakesons (vc), conductor Hector MacAndrew
Rí Rá
(1995)
bn(2) dbn
Duration: 5′
Commissioned by Aoileann O’Carroll
Première: 11 August 2001, International Double Reed Society Conference, West Virginia University
David Oyen (bn), Jeffrey Womack (bn), Bruce Gbur (dbn)
Sapphire
(2016)
fl cl acc vn vc
Duration: 3′
Dedicated to Jane O’Leary on her 70th birthday
Première: 20 November 2016, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
Concorde
Madeleine Staunton (fl), Paul Roe (cl), Dermot Dunne (acc), Elaine Clark (vn), Martin Johnson (vc)
Sextet Uno
(1997)
fl (+afl, picc) cl (+bcl) vn vc pf perc
Duration: 14′
Commissioned by Concorde with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 6 February 1998, John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
Concorde
Madeleine Staunton (fl), Paul Roe (cl), Alan Smale (vn), David James (vc), Jane O’Leary (pf), Richard O’Donnell (perc)
Rational Option Insanity – chamber works by Gráinne Mulvey & Deirdre Gribbin Black Box BBM 1015
Strange Attractor
(2020)
fl bcl pf
Duration: 10′
Première: 27 January 2023, Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Aisling Agnew (fl), Sarah Watts (bcl), Daniel Browell (pf) conducted by Sinéad Hayes
String Quartet No 1
(1991)
Duration: 22′
Première: 27 January 2023, Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Aisling Agnew (fl), Sarah Watts (bcl), Daniel Browell (pf) conducted by Sinéad Hayes
Trinity Fanfare
(2004)
Tpts in C (2) org
Duration: 5′
Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin, to celebrate the centenary of the first female admissions to the college
Première: 9 July 2004, Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin
Graham Hastings, Colm Byrne (tpts), David Adams (org), conductor Fergus O’Carroll
Tunnelling to Light
(2009)
perc quartet
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Duration: 6′
Première: 22 November 2009, Royal Irish Academy of Music
RIAM Percussion Quartet, conducted by Richard O’Donnell