12 vv a cappella
Text: Alfonsina Storni
9'
Commissioned by the 2010 Béal Festival
Premiere: 4 November 2010, Trinity College Chapel, Dublin. Milltown Chamber Choir, conductor Orla Flanagan
Eternity Is Now (2008)
mezzo-soprano solo
Text: Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
4'
Première:Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 13 November 2008. Elizabeth Hilliard, mezzo-soprano
Eternity Is Now
Earth-Song (2007)
mezzo-soprano, accordion
Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson
15'
Commissioned by Ian Wilson for Sligo New Music Festival, with funds provided by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Premiere: 14 April 2007, Sligo New Music Festival. Alda Caiello (mezzo-soprano), Dermot Dunne (accordion)
earth-song (exc)
Evolution (2003)
Children's choir, chamber orchestra, tape
Text: various
18'
Commissioned by Waterford New Music Week
Premiere: 26 January 2004, Waterford Regional Technical College. WIT Music School Junior Orchestra & Choir, conductor Deirdre Scanlon. Choral conductors: Niall Crowley, Sinéad Dempsey, Oonagh Kilcoyle
Stabat Mater (2003)
17 vv a cappella
6'
Premiere: 4 May 2003, 49th Cork International Festival. RTÉ National Chamber Choir, conductor Celso Antunes.
Performed at 2009 ISCM World Music Days, Växjö Cathedral, Sweden, 29 September 2009, by the Danish Radio Vokalensemblet, cond. Fredrik Malmberg
stabat mater (exc)
National Chamber Choir / Brian McKay
Queens University, Belfast
Perhaps the most technically demanding piece in the programme, Stabat Mater constructs a ferocious wall of sound in the opening bars which dilutes into gentle passages, displaying techniques of broken verse, reminiscient of LeFanu. This work stands as a sonically literal testament to the nature of the meditation on the suffering of Christ’s mother throughout his crucifixion.
Graeme Stewart
Culture Northern Ireland
21 Oct 2008
DR Vokalensemblet /
Fredrick Malmberg
ISCM World Music
Days 2009, Sweden
Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble showed their quality in Irish
composer Gráinne Mulvey's Stabat Mater. The piece begins with a microtonal
cluster that must have required substantial preparation.
Then the music builds in wide arcs with an almost
Bruckneresque stature and expressive power.
Prof Thomas Anderberg
Dagens
Nyheter, Sweden
1 Oct 2009
Waiting for
Godot (2000)
Excerpt from Scene II
mezzo, bar, pf
Text: Samuel Beckett
7'
Premiere: 21 July 2000. Ennis/IMRO Composition Summer
School, Colaiste Mhuire, Ennis, Co. Clare. Colette McGahon
(mezzo), Conor Biggs (bar), Patrick Zuk (pf).
La Corbière
(1998)
sop, 4 perc
Text: Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
10'
Missa
Brevis (1997)
SATB, pf
12'
The Sea
(1996)
Sop, bar
Text: Seán Ó Riordáin
4'
Yerma
(1994)
sop, mezzo, bar, cl, vn, vc,
pf
Text: Frederico Garcia Lorca
15'
Commissioned by Opera Theatre Company. Premiere: 10
December 1994. Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College
Dublin. Regina Hanley (sop), Miriam Murphy (mezzo), Martin
Higgins (bar), Opera Theatre Company chamber ensemble.
The Seal
Woman (1992)
bass, ensemble
Text: Brendan Mulvey
6'
Premiere: October 1992, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Nigel
Williams (bass), Nos Nua (in association with Opera Theatre
Company)
Ice Cold
(1990)
Sop, pf
Text: Seán Ó Riordáin
4'
Premiere: July 1990. Ennis/IMRO Composition Summer School,
Cuain Mhuire, Ennis, Co. Clare. Jane Manning (sop), Roy
Holmes (pf).