Current and recent projects

Current and Recent Projects

Least Like the Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy – Irish National Opera, Irish Tour, Sept 2020. 

5***** Irish Times       5***** The Times     “Deeply disturbing art ….vibrant, relevant and compelling” 

Ordinary Love – (Film score collaboartion with David Holmes) starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Mandeville. US Release Feb 2020

5***** Guardian - A beautiful ambient score ..proves as quietly powerful and moving as the film itself - Mark Kermode 

Drive by Shooting and Two Angels Play I Spy - USA Premiere: 27 Oct -3 Nov, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Paris  Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil 16 Nov -14 Dec 2019; Kunstfest, Weimar, Germany, July 2020; Irish Tour Feb - March 2020.

If Walls Could Sing  International  Society for Performing Arts Congress, New Works Presentation, New York, 15 Jan 2020

Fedora International Arts Award- Education Prize shortlist for A Game of Association, Feb 2020

Two Angels Play I Spy – Projected Street Art Opera. World Premiere:Waterford Walls Festival, 22 August 2019; SONICA Festival - Glasgow 1-3 Nov, 2020, Kunstfest, Weimar, Germany, July 2020.

Big Mistake - Installation for The Totally Made Up Orchestra. World Premiere: National Concert Hall, New Music Dubln, 27 Feb 2020.

Conversations Across Time - for 2 pianos, percussions, soprano, 2 actors, film: Project Arts Centre, Dublin 7-9 May 2020

Things We Throw Away – Series of 5 site specific operas. Kunstfest, Weimar, Germany, July 2020.

A Game of Association  - Irish National Opera RTE National Concert Orchestra, 200 singers and performers from various Dublin based footbal communites. National Concert Hall, Dublin, 27 June 2020.

A History of Love Part 1- Piano Trio - world premiere - Fidelio Trio, Winter Music Festival Dublin, 30 Oct 2019, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York, 14 June 2020

 

All The Things We Are - Installation for film, audio, 3 singers and shipping containers. World Premiere: Maritine Mile, Belfast 16 August 2019  – April 2020

 

Belfast musician Brian Irvine wins Paul Hamlyn Foundation award

Belfast's first ever music laureate has received one of the UK's biggest national arts awards.Brian Irvine is among eight winners who have each picked up £50,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. A musician, composer and conductor, Mr Irvine was named as music laureate for Belfast in December 2014. He is one of three composers from the UK to receive an award in 2015, while the other five recipients are visual artists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34802399

New opera - lovegolflove

Saturday, 30 May 2015, 5.00pm

 CASTLE PARK, NEWCASTLE

 In partnership with Dumbworld and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council as part of the Irish Open Fringe Festival.

Commissioned by Northern Ireland Opera, Lovegolflove is a new work of golf-inspired opera which receives its world premiere this May. The 25 minute performance was written by composer Brian Irvine (recently appointed Belfast Music Laureate) and award winning playwright Owen McCafferty and features two of Northern Ireland Opera’s former Young Artists. The witty performance will lift the lid on what happens when love and ‘the world’s greatest sport’ collide.

 

Things we throw away

Currently Recording  5 short operas with the RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Fergus Sheil. Text by John Mcilduff. Produced by Wide Open Opera in association with DUMBWORLD - Due to be performed in over 20 venues across Dublin at the end of June.  Commissioned by Dublin City Council.


Quartet for 15 Chairs

Presented by Maiden Voyage Dance and created by internationally renowned Enrique Cabrera.

Quartet for 15 Chairs encourages children to let their imagination run wild.

Music from Bach, Jean-Baptist Lully and Brian Irvine.