$15
Mon., May 10, 2010 / 6:30 PM
Audio / Video
Gallery
About This Event
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6:30 PMShow Time:
7:30 PMDescription:
Program:
David Lang: Forced March (written for Crash Ensemble in 2008)
Terry Riley: Loops for Ancient Giant Nude Hairy Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle (written for Crash Ensemble in 2007)
Donnacha Dennehy: As an Nós (written for San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2009)
Donnacha Dennehy: Streetwalker (written for Bang on a Can All-Stars in 2003)
This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
David Lang: Forced March (written for Crash Ensemble in 2008)
Terry Riley: Loops for Ancient Giant Nude Hairy Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle (written for Crash Ensemble in 2007)
Donnacha Dennehy: As an Nós (written for San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2009)
Donnacha Dennehy: Streetwalker (written for Bang on a Can All-Stars in 2003)
This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Artists
Crash Ensemble
Crash Ensemble was founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy; conductor and pianist Andrew Synott; and clarinetist Michael Seaver. Since its first sold-out concert in Dublin in the autumn of 1997, the group has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics. The group is interdisciplinary in outlook, and considers its sound engineers, technicians and video makers as much a part of the enterprise as the musicians.
Crash has commissioned or premiered a large amount of works by many composers incuding Peter Adriaansz, Gerald Barry, Gavin Bryars, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Stephen Gardner, Michael Gordon, John Godfrey, Andrew Hamilton, David Lang, Terry Riley, Jurgen Simpson, Gerhard Stabler, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson and Kevin Volans. It has worked directly with all the above, and with other composers such as Louis Andreissen, Gloria Coates, Roger Doyle, Michael Maierhof and Steve Reich. A highlight of 2010 will be the world premiere of a new work by Donnacha Dennehy commissioned and performed by Grammy Award winning soprano, Dawn Upshaw.
Since 2002, Crash has hosted three contemporary music festivals, attracting international composers and performers to Dublin to collaborate with Irish colleagues. In 2006, Crash performed three concerts in the RTÉ Living Music Festival’s first all-day ‘marathon’ event in the presence of featured composer, Steve Reich. Presented in association with the Ensemble, the marathon was a sell-out and the festival, under the artistic direction of Donnacha Dennehy, proved a tremendous success with the Irish public. In 2007 Crash celebrated its 10th birthday with a massive marathon weekend ‘Shindig’ to great critical acclaim, followed by a National tour that culminated in a sell out show in the Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne.
As well as performing regularly throughout Ireland, Crash has appeared in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada and has been broadcast on radio in all these countries. ABC Radio broadcast their Australian debut in March 2009. WNYC broadcast their New York City debut in March 2007. In May 2008 Crash featured in the Canberra International Chamber Festival and the Bang on a Can Marathon NYC (with the support of Culture Ireland) and in September 2008 performed at the 14th Musica Viva festival in Lisbon (with the support of the Association of Irish Composers and Culture Ireland). In 2010 Crash will be performing in a series of dates on the East Coast of the US as well as in London’s Kings Place. Crash will also premiere the new work by Dennehy for Dawn Upshaw in Wexford Opera House. This work will be recorded for an album with Nonesuch Records.
Crash has made an indelible mark on the Irish music scene and beyond. They believe in a joyous yet absolutely rigorous engagement with the most adventurous music of today and the (extremely) recent past. Crash feature in recordings by labels such as NMC (London – released June 07) and Cantaloupe (New York – released August 08)
Crash Ensemble is supported by the Arts Council.
“the Irish new-music band that plays with the energy and spirit of a rock group” New York Times, March 07
Listen to Crash Ensemble
Crash has commissioned or premiered a large amount of works by many composers incuding Peter Adriaansz, Gerald Barry, Gavin Bryars, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Stephen Gardner, Michael Gordon, John Godfrey, Andrew Hamilton, David Lang, Terry Riley, Jurgen Simpson, Gerhard Stabler, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson and Kevin Volans. It has worked directly with all the above, and with other composers such as Louis Andreissen, Gloria Coates, Roger Doyle, Michael Maierhof and Steve Reich. A highlight of 2010 will be the world premiere of a new work by Donnacha Dennehy commissioned and performed by Grammy Award winning soprano, Dawn Upshaw.
Since 2002, Crash has hosted three contemporary music festivals, attracting international composers and performers to Dublin to collaborate with Irish colleagues. In 2006, Crash performed three concerts in the RTÉ Living Music Festival’s first all-day ‘marathon’ event in the presence of featured composer, Steve Reich. Presented in association with the Ensemble, the marathon was a sell-out and the festival, under the artistic direction of Donnacha Dennehy, proved a tremendous success with the Irish public. In 2007 Crash celebrated its 10th birthday with a massive marathon weekend ‘Shindig’ to great critical acclaim, followed by a National tour that culminated in a sell out show in the Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne.
As well as performing regularly throughout Ireland, Crash has appeared in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada and has been broadcast on radio in all these countries. ABC Radio broadcast their Australian debut in March 2009. WNYC broadcast their New York City debut in March 2007. In May 2008 Crash featured in the Canberra International Chamber Festival and the Bang on a Can Marathon NYC (with the support of Culture Ireland) and in September 2008 performed at the 14th Musica Viva festival in Lisbon (with the support of the Association of Irish Composers and Culture Ireland). In 2010 Crash will be performing in a series of dates on the East Coast of the US as well as in London’s Kings Place. Crash will also premiere the new work by Dennehy for Dawn Upshaw in Wexford Opera House. This work will be recorded for an album with Nonesuch Records.
Crash has made an indelible mark on the Irish music scene and beyond. They believe in a joyous yet absolutely rigorous engagement with the most adventurous music of today and the (extremely) recent past. Crash feature in recordings by labels such as NMC (London – released June 07) and Cantaloupe (New York – released August 08)
Crash Ensemble is supported by the Arts Council.
“the Irish new-music band that plays with the energy and spirit of a rock group” New York Times, March 07
Listen to Crash Ensemble
music of Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang, and Terry Riley