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    NEWS & EVENTS (highlights)

    in residence at The Studios of Key West

    at the Krakow Autumn Jazz Festival, 2014

     with Peter Evans (trumpet) © Žiga Koritnik

                                       at the Vortex Jazz Club, London, 2018

                                                           (photo Olesya Zdorovetska)

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    Coterminous Session Middlesex University

    with Lucas Niggli (photo Brian Kavanagh)

    MARCH, 2020

    Concert:  Guitarist Fabio Zanon performs Dwyer's Guitar Concerto No. 2 with the Goias Philarmonic Orchestra (Brazil)

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    DECEMBER 17, 2019

    Concert:  what is the word  (Beckett-inspired music by Benjamin Dwyer, Barry Guy and György Kurtág at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

     

    Benjamin Dwyer (guitar/prepared guitar), Barry Guy (bass), Maya Homburger (violin) and Conor Lovett (narration). 

     

    Dwyer: what is the word (triptych with interludes); six residua (after Beckett); five disjecta (after Beckett); Guy: Fizzles; Kurtág: Hommage a Eberhard Feltz (after Beckett’s Roundelay)

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    DECEMBER 3, 2019

    Recording:  Recording Residua, for early Irish harp and tape, with harpist Siobhán Armstrong for the SacrumProfanum project.

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    NOVEMBER 16, 2019

    Concert:  The Blue Shroud performed by the Blue Shroud Band at London Jazz Festival: Kings Place, London

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    NOVEMBER 5, 2019

    Concert:  KnowingUnknowing with Helen Kindred (dancer), Grove Dance Theatre, Middlesex University, London. 

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    OCTOBER 19, 2019

    Recording:  Recording HAG with flautist Emma Coulthard for the SacrumProfanum project.

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    SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

    Concert:  The Blue Shroud performed by the Blue Shroud Band at Alte Oper Frankfurt (Germany)

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    JUNE 16, 2019

    Performance:  Emma Coulthard performs Dwyer's Crow (amplified sliding flute & tape): Duchesne Room, Tokyo

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    JUNE 13, 2019

    Concert:  Beckett into Music at the Belfast Book Festival. Benjamin Dwyer (guitar/prepared guitar), Barry Guy (bass), Maya Homburger (violin) and Owen Roe (narrator). Dwyer: what is the word (triptych with interludes), Dwyer six residua (after Beckett), Guy 'Fizzles' and György Kurtág's Hommage a Eberhard Feltz (after Beckett’s Roundelay)

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    MARCH 17, 2019

    Concert:  New Music from Ireland in Cardiff: CHAPTER ARTS Cardiff with Emma Coulthard (flutes), Benjamin Dwyer (guitar/prepared guitar) and Jenn Kirby (voice, electronics). World premiere of Dwyer's HAG (for amplified flute and bowed guitar) and music by Corcoran, McLachlan, Kirby, Buckley, Johnston and Dwyer

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    FEBRUARY 3, 2019

    Concert:  Hugh Lane Gallery 12 Noon. Benjamin Dwyer (guitar/prepared guitar), Barry Guy (bass), Maya Homburger (violin) & Barry McGovern (narration). Dwyer: what is the word (triptych with interludes) (after Beckett) world premiere, Dwyer six residua (after Beckett) world premiere, Guy 'Fizzles' (after Beckett).

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    JANUARY 25, 2019

    CD/DVD Launch: KnowingUnknowing CD/DVD/Text on Farpoint Records launches at Dance Ireland, Dublin, 6.00pm 

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    JANUARY 17, 2019

    CD/DVD Launch: KnowingUnknowing CD/DVD/Text on Farpoint Records launches at Middlesex University, 7.30pm 

     

    DECEMBER 09, 2018

    Screening: In Shadow Lisbon Screen Dance Festival 15 November-15 December: KnowingUnknowing (film version featuring Pete Gomes (improvising camera), Helen Kindred (improvised dance) and Benjamin Dwyer (improvised guitar)

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    NOVEMBER 09, 2018

    Screening:  Light Moves Festival of Screendance 2pm. Dance Limerick Performance Space St John's Square: KnowingUnknowing (film version featuring Pete Gomes (improvising camera), Helen Kindred (improvised dance) and Benjamin Dwyer (improvised guitar)

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    OCTOBER 26, 2018

    Concert:  Debussy Centenary Concert. Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, featuring music by Falla and Dwyer's Tombeau sur la mort de Claude Debussy

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    JUNE 14, 2018

    Commission: New guitar work to celebrate 100th anniversary of Debussy's death. Tombeau sur la mort de Claude Debussy premieres at the National Concert Hall (Dublin)

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    MAY 24, 2018

    Publication: Sheela-na-gigs and an 'Aesthetics of Damage' in Enclave Review, issue 16, 2018

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    APRIL, 2018

    Commission: New guitar and cello work, sin título, for Music Network tour of Ireland with Thibaut Garcia and Isang Enders.

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    MARCH 26, 2018

    New Work & Performance: Phonica festival of experimental poetry and music at Smock Alley, Dublin

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    MARCH 16/17, 2018

    Performance: Vortex Jazz Club (Culture Ireland Britain 2018 programme) - KnowingUnknowing

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    NOVEMBER 4-5, 2017

    Symposium: Light Moves Festival of Screendance

    University of Limerick

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    OCTOBER 21, 2017

    Concert: Performance with Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band,

    Philharmie Essen 'NOW', Germany

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    OCTOBER 11-14, 2017

    Conference: “Translation, Multimodal Interaction and Context. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives”,  Fyssen Foundation, Paris

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    SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

    Concert: Irish & Japanese guitar music

    Ryogoku-Monten Hall, Tokyo

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    AUGUST 7, 2017

    Symposium: Estancias Coreográficas Symposium: Rhythm and Dance

    Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.

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    APRIL 28, 2017

    CD Launch: Umbilical, including full live performance

    featuring Barry Guy, Maya Homburger

    and David Adams with  Diatribe Records

    at The Complex, Dublin

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    APRIL 22, 2017

    Concert: Barrow River Arts Festival

    with Sylvia O'Brien (soprano) songs by Sor, Villa-Lobos, Lorca

    and the world premiere of the song cycle

    Sobre los Ángeles by Benjamin Dwyer

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    JUNE 2016

    Residency: Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

     

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