Recent Projects
This Arts Council funded project created the first video recording of Raymond Deane’s A Baroque Session (with Carolan & Friends)
The orchestra was Athenry Sinfonietta – 20 young musicians from Athenry Music School, with guest cellists from Coole Music & Arts, as well as 6 invited local professional players.
Violins: Séamus McGuire & Niamh Crowley
Viola: Kenneth Rice
Cello: Adrian Mantu
Conductor: Sinead Hayes
- Funding Application
- Creation of production team
- Project Management
- Soloists & Production team briefing and liaising
- Orchestra management on recording day.
- Creation of GPS music trail in Athenry with audio from the recording.
Working with over 100 young musicians from Coole Music & Arts, we discovered the life and music of 17th century Irish harper and composer Turlough Carolan.
We worked via Zoom with 7 groups – 4 orchestras, 1 choir, 1 recorder group and 1 group of pianists. Each group learned a tune by Carolan and an Irish traditional tune.
Each group used a tailor made activity book, creating stories, artworks, poetry and new original compositions inspired by Carolan’s extraordinary life.
We worked with Coole Music founder Katharina Baker to choose appropriate music for each group.
- creation of sheet music and backing tracks
- collection and collation of all creative responses into 2 eBooks
- creation of a montage video of all the performances and creative responses
- creation of a GPS story and music walk in Gort, Co. Galway
Working with Galway Music Residency, we created an online version of their annual Apprentice Ensemble Scheme. Over 20 young musicians worked with the players of the ConTempo String Quartet on music by Mozart and Beethoven.
As part of the project, the musicians were encouraged to creatively engage with the lives of Haydn and Mozart, and discover more of their music. They were also coached in ensemble and quartet playing, focussing on musical and technical details.
- Devising the format and timetable for the two days of workshops.
- Choosing appropriate music for Junior and Senior musicians.
- Creation of Activity books
- Creation of slideshow materials for the opening “Chamber Music Skills” workshop.
- Facilitation of the opening workshop.
Together with 15 fellow musicians and groups, we set out to play, video and share free sheet music for a traditional tune a day, in the run up to Christmas 2020. The aim was to raise money for Tuam Cancer Care.
All the musicians and groups gave their time for free in aid of this great cause.
This was the first project of its kind, using traditional music in this way. We hope the idea catches on and that Tradvent spreads across the world! Together we raised over €1000 for Tuam Cancer Care.
- Project concept
- Creation of iDonate page
- Invitation to musicians to take part
- Creation of the sheet music
- Video and audio editing
- Graphic design