New Release

New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock are very excited to announce our first collaboration with Voces8Records @voces8foundation 💿 On December 20th we release the first single ‘Time’ from our upcoming album Snow Dance for the Dead – Choral Music by Seán Doherty 🎶 Everyone knows how time passing can feel like slow-motion, or lightning, or even like both at once. @seandcomposer animates this paradox and ultimately wrestles time to a complete standstill in his brilliant short piece for choir – Time.

It’s almost TIME…. 👀 Keep an eye out on our socials over the coming weeks for some VERY exciting news 🤫

🎶✨ Calling all composers! ✨🎶 New Dublin Voices is thrilled to announce its inaugural Choral Composition Competition as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations 🌍✍️ With a prize fund of €2,100 and the chance to have your work premiered and recorded by one of Europe’s leading chamber choirs, don’t miss your chance—submit by 31 January 2025. Our adjudication panel is made up of the renowned composers Jaakko Mäntyjärvi from Finland and Dr Seán Doherty from Ireland, and New Dublin Voices’ founder-conductor Dr Bernie Sherlock. With a legacy of championing new music—87 world premieres since 2005—we’re excited to hear the fresh perspectives, music and words you’ll bring to our 20th anniversary season! Find submission details and rules/regulations through the link in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who came to ‘Yeats and Shakespeare’ last Saturday. It was the first time that all six commissioned settings of Yeats’ poetry were performed together and it was a joy to work on these pieces by @aine_mallon_ , @anselmmcdonnell , @cooneychoons , Jonathan Nangle, @laurahawleymusic and @roxannapanufnik 🎶

We were delighted to welcome @cooneychoons to rehearsal this week to workshop his commissioned piece ‘her anxiety’ ahead of its premiere TOMORROW. Come along to also hear a program bursting with variety inspired by the words of Yeats and Shakespeare 📆 TOMORROW 9 November 2024 ⏰ 7:30pm 📍 @peppercanisterchurch 🎟️ Link in bio / https://www.newdublinvoices.com/ndv-events/event/new-dublin-voices-presents-yeats-and-shakespeare/

Introducing our next three composers whose works, inspired by Yeats, will be performed this Saturday at ‘Yeats and Shakespeare’ Jonathan Nangle is an Irish composer whose work explores many diverse fields ranging from notated acoustic and electro-acoustic composition, to video, field recording, interactive sound installation and electronic improvisation. Based on W.B. Yeats’ poem of love, loss, and dying passion, ‘He Reproves the Curlew’, we will be performing his piece ‘O Curlew’ which is inspired by recordings made by the composer in Co. Wexford and the plight of this critically endangered wading bird.,  @aine_mallon_ is an Irish born composer, musician and performer with a broad interest in style and genre. Áine has written a range of music varying from large scale theatrical works to smaller choral, chamber and solo pieces in a range of styles including contemporary classical and Irish folk. Her music engages with the fundamental human experience of storytelling and has been described as “Traditional yet fresh and new” (John Rutter CBE) Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish descent, and is one of the most versatile and beloved British composers working today. She has written music across a wide range of genres and forms including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film and television, which are regularly performed all over the world. 📆 9th November 2024 ⏰7:30pm 📍Pepper Cannister Church, St. Stephen’s in Mount Street Upper 🎟️ Ticket link in bio

We’re a week out from our Yeats and Shakespeare concert on 9 November in Pepper Cannister Church and wanted to introduce some of the composers whose works will be premiered on Saturday. Laura Hawley is a Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and educator known for her compelling approach to musical leadership and artistic programming, distinctive compositional style, and passionate advocacy for Canadian choral art. Laura has been steeped in choral art since childhood, and her music, often influenced by creative community connections and exchanges, has been described as conjuring “the forces of nature and its effect on the human spirit”. @anselmmcdonnell is an Irish/Welsh composer who has composed over ninety pieces for orchestra, chamber groups, choirs, soloists, and electronics. His compositions have been described as ‘abrasive and compelling’, Irish Times, and ‘perhaps the contrasts and complexities that it contains are a musical reflection of the multi-layered nature of what it means to be a composer in a community as complex as Northern Ireland.’ (Robert Hugill) David Coonan is an Irish composer and multidisciplinary artist. His work, characterized by an equal depth of thought and feeling, is diverse in form and output yet unified in intent/preoccupation — music that is meticulously wild, or possibly vice versa, co-exists gracefully with art objects, moving bodies, political critiques, tragic stories, campy jokes — always aiming to respond to the full complexity of the world as fully as possible. 📆 9th November 2024 ⏰7:30pm 📍Pepper Cannister Church, St. Stephen’s in Mount Street Upper 🎟️ Ticket link in bio