Recent recipient of the 1er Prix Luigi Russolo for his work Gallivanting (now retitled as The Suitcases Piece), Donal Sarsfield is an Irish composer currently studying for a PhD in electroacoustic music at the University of Manchester on an Irish Arts Council Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship. His recent tape music demonstrates poignancy and humour in […]
Recently I have been interested in cartography and the important role it plays in how we comprehend the spaces we inhabit. An atlas is a collection of maps, often several maps show the same area but map different details and data, each time revealing another facet of the land’s geography. Small Atlas lays out a […]
‘So, it’s done! I finished the score of June Unfolding for the orchestra of King Edward Musical Society last week and the parts are being prepared for the first rehearsal on 3 May. I thought I would take a moment to put down some thoughts on the composition process and the ideas behind the piece, […]
The collective I co-founded, Raise Your Voice, has just announced its latest venture: an exhibition of sound installations plus live performance entitled Cities of Sound as part of FutureEverything Festival 2011. Read more »
This short, two-movement work came out of an earlier work for solo viola, Gaza Cantos, which was written after the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defence Forces in December 2008. The title references Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play I am Yusuf and this is my brother, set before and after ‘al Nakba’ in […]
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Tagged 2011, solo, violin
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