New Music 2023

New Music at the 2023 Winter Chamber Music Festival

A central facet of the 2023 Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music festival is the performance and celebration of music by internationally acclaimed Irish composers. Inspired by the species of our natural world, four new pieces by Irish composers for solo violin and electronics will receive their world premieres at a special lunchtime concert in the National Botanic Gardens on Saturday 25th November. These works have been written especially for violinist Darragh Morgan, and funded by the Arts Council Music Project Award. This project is coordinated by locally-based composer Fergal Dowling together with composers Siobhán Cleary, Seán Ó Dálaigh, and Gráinne Mulvey. 

‘Snapshots’, a composer workshop presented by Fidelio Trio in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Centre and GlasDrum, and in partnership with Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival, forms an integral part of the Saturday’s events. This is a unique, exciting and in-person opportunity for emerging or early-career composers to try out new musical material and ideas, inspired by the oasis that is the National Botanic Gardens, with the renowned members of the Fidelio Trio. Selected participants in Snapshots will have the opportunity to hear Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan – violin, Tim Gill – cello, Mary Dullea – piano) play their new material, or try out new ideas and sounds in a collaborative format. 

'A Kaleidoscope Snapshot’, a pre-concert event on the evening of Saturday 25th November, will celebrate the rich tradition of commissioning and performing new repertoire for the festival. The Fidelio Trio will be joined by some of Ireland's most renowned composers, each of whom have created new music for the trio over the eleven years of this festival. In a roundtable discussion, the audience will have the opportunity to hear the stories behind these pieces that have travelled the globe with the trio. This track record of commissions is testament to the Fidelio Trio's incredible work as ambassadors for Irish music.