Welcome to Dave Flynn's February 2012 Newsletter.

This month's newsletter includes details of new events featuring Dave's music, tours in Germany and Ireland for later in 2012, upcoming recording news and details regarding Dave's current work as a lecturer and musicologist.

Upcoming performances in Dublin

Dave features as a performer and composer this Spring in two events at the National Concert Hall's Kevin Barry Room.

On 29th February Dave teams up with the superb, multi-award winning violinist Aoife Ní Bhríain for a concert of Contemporary Irish music for violin and guitar. The concert includes the Irish premiere of Dave's 'Toccata for Obama' alongside works by Alyson Barber, Jerome de Bromhead and Eric Sweeney. The concert is organised by the Contemporary Music Centre and further details may be found here: http://cmcireland.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/cmc-feb-salon/

On 18th April the renowned RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet will give the Dublin premiere of Dave's award-winning String Quartet No.2 'The Cranning' as part of the New Sound World's concert series curated by composer Siobhán Cleary. Full details of the concert have yet to be announced but you may visit the New Sound World's facebook page here for updates https://www.facebook.com/NewSoundWorlds

Tours in Germany and Ireland

Dave is embarking on two major tours later in 2012.

In May/June Dave is touring North Germany in a double bill with the German guitarist Hilke Billerbeck. The eight date tour is called 'Celtic Music:Classical Guitar' and reflects the fact that both performers will be performing traditional Irish music on classical nylon string guitars. Full tour dates can be seen on Dave's website here http://daveflynncomposer.weebly.com/events.html

In Autumn 2012 Dave is taking part in a major new touring initiative which has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland's Touring and Dissemination Scheme. The tour is entitled 'The Tune Makers' tour and it features Dave performing in a new trio with Liz Carroll and Mairtín O'Connor with special guest appearances by some of Ireland's leading composers and performers of traditional Irish music. Full details of the tour are still being finalised and will be announced in a future newsletter.

Recording Plans

Dave has a number of recording projects currently planned including a recording of his complete works for classical guitar which were published by Frisbee Publications in 2011. Dave is currently in pre-production for this record which he will be recording in his home studio in Clare. The album will feature guest performances by flautists Aisling Agnew and Eimear McGeown in works Dave has composed for flute and guitar.

Dave is also returning to his roots as a singer-songwriter this year to record an album of songs he has co-written with the lyricist Padraic Ó'Beirn. Dave met Padraic through an IMRO songwriters convention in 2000 and this recording will mark over 10 years of songwriting collaborations between them.

Dave has enlisted a fantastic band to perform with him on this record including Vyvienne Long (cello/vocals), Niwel Tsumbu (guitar/vocals), Aidan Dunphy (percussion) and Cion O'Callaghan (percussion). Between them the band have recorded and toured with many of Ireland's leading singer-songwriters including Declan O'Rourke, Damien Rice, Mundy and Paddy Casey. The band will be launching a Fund It campaign in the near future to raise funds for the album.

The Enigma of Frank Ryan

Dave recently attended the premiere of a new film by Des Bell called 'The Enigma of Frank Ryan' at the Jameson International Dublin Film Festival. This interesting docu-drama features excerpts from 'The Valley of the Lunatics', a piece Dave wrote for Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh with the aid of a Deis Grant from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Lecturing and Writing

Dave's student days are officially behind him! He received his PhD in 2011 from the DIT for his composition-based thesis 'Traditional Irish Music:A Path to New Music' and following this he has been invited to do some lecturing and musicological writing.

On April 19th Dave will visit Dundalk Institute of Technology to give a lecture about his compositions to students of the music course there.

Dave has written an article based on part of his PhD research entitled 'The Uilleann Pipes in Contemporary Concert Music'. It is being published in 5 parts by Na Piobairí Uilleann in their newsletter An Píobaire. The first part has been published in the most recent edition. The editorial may be viewed here - http://www.pipers.ie/home/Resources_Piobaire.htm. To access the article you need to subscribe to the newsletter.

Finally, Dave is currently guest lecturer in composition at the Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin where he is covering for Dr. Jane O'Leary who is on sick leave.

Dave would like to take this opportunity to wish Jane the very best in her recovery.

Here endeth the newsletter.
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Please visit the EVENTS page for details of some upcoming events including a German Tour with Hilke Billerbeck in May/June 2012, a concert with Aoife Ní Bhríain in February 2012 and the Dublin Premiere in April 2012 of String Quartet No.2 - The Cranning as performed by The Vanbrugh Quartet.
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Martin Hayes, Dave Flynn & Dennis Cahill pictured after the premiere of Aontacht at the National Concert Hall,  Dublin 24th November 2010.
_The astonishing fiddle player Martin Hayes premièred Dave Flynn’s fiddle concerto Aontacht with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on 24th November 2010 at the National Concert Hall. To mark the first anniversary of this landmark event, Frisbee Publications is proud to announce the publication of a limited edition score of Aontacht alongside a limited edition score of Music for the Departed, Flynn’s moving musical portrait of the grieving process which Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill also premiered with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and subsequently toured with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2011.

These scores are ideal, one of a kind gifts for a discerning music lover. A strictly limited number of copies of each score, personally signed with a dedication by the composer, are available to purchase now from the sheet-music page of Dave Flynn’s official website.

http://daveflynncomposer.weebly.com/sheet-music.html

For more information please email frisbeerecords@gmail.com
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New Website 11/25/2011
 
_Welcome to my temporary new web site which I've created to be used until the fully developed website that Frangipanicreative.com is working on is ready to go live. There's lots more to be added to the site but please have a browse around to read more about me and to sample my music.

To view old news items please visit my wordpress blog here
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