presents Autumn 2023
Staff & Board
Music Network Team
Sharon Rollston, Chief Executive
Deirdre Moynihan, Head of Programmes
Dolores Madigan, Finance Manager
Melanie Wright, Head of Communications and Marketing
Arantxa Colomé, Development Manager
Ciarán Kilbride, Operations Administrator
Sarah Ledwidge, Programmes Administrator
Sarah Cunningham, Music Capital Scheme Administrator
Raluca Maria Chirtes, Marketing Executive
Board
Pat Moylan, Chair
Shirley Kavanagh
Cathal Cusack
Carl Corcoran
Orla Moloney
Eithne Harley
Kevin Barry
Paddy Glackin
Noel Eccles
Music Network 2023 Autumn Touring Season
Find us at a venue near you
As we savour the last days of summer, it’s time to look forward in anticipation to Autumn and a whole new season of musical possibilities.
So far this year we’ve worked with 26 partners and venues to bring live music to 18 counties through our National Touring Programme. We’ve provided 10 artist residencies together with our partners, commissioned 7 new works by Irish composers and placed musical instruments in the hands of approximately 5,000 musicians, both amateur and professional, through our Music Capital Scheme.
We’re planning to finish the year as strongly as we started with an incredible line-up of musicians for you to enjoy this season. So, whether you are drawn to exhilarating contemporary sounds, transcendent jazz or the elegance of early music, I hope you’ll find a concert you love at a venue near you.
We would like to express our gratitude to our principal funder The Arts Council, to our Friends and supporters, our network of partners and everyone who has attended or participated in a Music Network concert or programme this year. Your support helps us continue to bring affordable, exceptional quality live music to Irish venues, enables our musicians to develop sustainable and fulfilling careers, and provides opportunities for performance and participation in communities across the country.
I hope you enjoy this fresh new season of music, and to see you at a Music Network event very soon.
Sharon Rollston, Music Network CEO
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by Jennifer Walshe
On tour 19 – 26 September
Dublin, Kildare, Limerick, Cork & Mayo
An extraordinary multi-media show by the amazing force of nature that is vocalist, improviser and composer
Jennifer Walshe.
Imagine a place where a phone tower is planted next to a holy well, where Facebook employees at the Clonee data centre tend beehives in a nod to medieval monks, and where the hexagonal shapes of the basalt columns at the Giant’s Causeway are echoed in the solar cells of the James Webb Telescope peering into deepest space as the Leviathan once did. No need to imagine it, we are living it.
Developed by Walshe and her ensemble with the help of secondary school students from across the country, this new work draws on their experience of growing up in a world mediated by technology.
A Music Network Commission, premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023.
Dates / Venues
Jennifer Walshe
composer and vocalist
Elizabeth Hilliard
soprano
Nick Roth
saxophone
Panos Ghikas
viola/electronics
19 September, 7.30pm Dublin Fringe Festival, Samuel Beckett Theatre
20 September, 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
21 September, 8pm Belltable, Limerick
23 September, 8pm Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
26 September, 8pm The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
Sultan
with special guest
Denys Baptiste
tenor saxophone
On tour 24 – 29 October Dublin, Kerry, Cork & Kildare
Led by a trailblazing young pianist and composer, the Sultan Stevenson Trio is taking the UK jazz scene by storm. Add immensely talented saxophonist and Mercury Music Prize winner Denys Baptiste and you are in for a real musical treat this October.
Stevenson has emerged as a musical force to be reckoned with, and his trio are hotly tipped for international success following the release of his incredible debut Faithful One earlier this year.
This tour brings together four of the most exciting jazz artists the UK currently has to offer. Expect sublime and delicate playing alongside exhilaratingly high-energy musical exchanges from this powerful quartet.
Sultan Stevenson
piano
Jacob Gryn
bass
Joel Waters
drums
Denys Baptiste
tenor
saxophone
Dates / Venues
24 October, 7.30pm
25 October, 8pm
The Sugar Club, Dublin
Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
27 October, 8pm Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
28 October, 2:30pm
29 October, 8pm
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
anna dennis jonas nordberg liam byrne
On tour 22 – 30 November
Galway, Dublin, Westmeath, Donegal, Kilkenny & Waterford
Join us for an exquisite programme of early music from a stunning international line up.
Travel from the musical landscapes of the Jacobean English drawing room to the sumptuous salons of Venice, where music, poetry and song intertwine and the warm tones of lute and viola da gamba blend with the enchanting sound of the soprano voice.
The internationally renowned trio of Anna Dennis (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (lute) and Liam Byrne (viola da gamba) perform together for the first time in Ireland to present an intimate and truly captivating musical experience. The programme will feature works by Dowland, Monteverdi, Purcell and Telemann alongside a new Music Network commission by Irish composer David Coonan.
Dates / Venues
Anna Dennis soprano
Jonas Nordberg lute
Liam Byrne
viola da gamba
22 November, 8pm Station House Theatre, Clifden
23 November, 8pm Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
25 November, 7pm Tullynally Castle, Westmeath
26 November, 4pm Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny
28 November, 7.30pm 1WML (Windmill Quarter), Dublin
29 November, 8pm Roth House, Kilkenny
30 November, 7.30pm Edmund Rice Chapel, Waterford City
Friends & Patrons
Honorary Patron
Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
Patrons
Leo Blennerhasset
Pat Moylan
Honorary Lifetime Friend
Peter Finnegan
Progression Friends
Maire & Maurice Foley
Olwyn Lanigan
Geraldine O’Sullivan
Deirdre McCrea
Music Literacy Ireland
Eithne Harley
Prelude+ Friends
Jim Dowling
Connie Tantrum
Sarah Lappin
Shirley Kavanagh
Prelude Friends
Fergus Carpenter
Patrick Hurley
Louise Walsh
Prisca Coleman
Kathy Dawson
Josie McMorrin
Michael Keogh
Sue and Simon Parker
Gerard Phelan
Gráinne Gormley
Ciara Flanagan
Niamh Varian Barry
Carl Corcoran
Kevin Barry
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We believe that everybody deserves the chance to experience the joy of live music. We are here to make that happen and we need your help to do it.
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