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)
Coterminous Session Middlesex University
with Lucas Niggli (photo Brian Kavanagh)
DECEMBER 10,, 2020
Concert: Guitarist Fabio Zanon performs Dwyer's Guitar Concerto No. 2 with the Orquestra Filarmônica de Goiás (Brazil), conducted by Neil Thomson.
JUNE 6, 2020
Premiere: SacrumProfanum (viola, harps, flutes, prepared guitar, tape & film), with Garth Knox, Emma Coulthard, Siobhán Armstrong and Benjamin Dwyer, with films by Dylan Griffith & Jonathan Creasy, Gaelic text, and poetry by Jona Xhepa, at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
MAY 9, 2020
New Work Premiere: for Duo 'Im Goldrausch' - Sabina Matthus-Bebie (bass clarinet) & Felix Kroll (accordion) at the Carte Blanche Clarinet Festival, Netzeband, Germany.
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
CD Launch/Concert: what is the word Beckett-inspired music by Benjamin Dwyer on Diatribe Records at the Dublin New Music festival, National Concert Hall. With Benjamin Dwyer (guitar), Maya Homburger (violin) and Barry Guy (double bass) and Mark D'Aughton (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)
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
Concert: Emma Coulthard (flute) performs Crow (for flute & tape) Chapter Arts, Cardiff.
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Concert: Emma Coulthard (flute) performs Crow (for flute & tape) Maynooth University.
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
Concert: Emma Coulthard (flute) performs Crow (for flute & tape) The Globe, Hay-on-Wye.
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).
NOVEMBER 16, 2019
Concert: The Blue Shroud performed by the Blue Shroud Band at London Jazz Festival: Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London.
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Concert: KnowingUnknowing with Helen Kindred (dancer), Grove Dance Theatre, Middlesex University, London.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
Concert: The Blue Shroud performed by the Blue Shroud Band at Alte Oper Frankfurt (Germany)
JUNE 16, 2019
Performance: Emma Coulthard performs Dwyer's Crow (amplified sliding flute & tape): Duchesne Room, Tokyo
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)
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
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).
JANUARY 25, 2019
CD/DVD Launch: KnowingUnknowing CD/DVD/Text on Farpoint Records launches at Dance Ireland, Dublin, 6.00pm
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)
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)
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
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)
MAY 24, 2018
Publication: Sheela-na-gigs and an 'Aesthetics of Damage' in Enclave Review, issue 16, 2018
APRIL, 2018
Commission: New guitar and cello work, sin título, for Music Network tour of Ireland with Thibaut Garcia and Isang Enders.
MARCH 26, 2018
New Work & Performance: Phonica festival of experimental poetry and music at Smock Alley, Dublin
MARCH 16/17, 2018
Performance: Vortex Jazz Club (Culture Ireland Britain 2018 programme) - KnowingUnknowing
NOVEMBER 4-5, 2017
Symposium: Light Moves Festival of Screendance
University of Limerick
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Concert: Performance with Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band,
Philharmie Essen 'NOW', Germany
OCTOBER 11-14, 2017
Conference: “Translation, Multimodal Interaction and Context. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives”, Fyssen Foundation, Paris
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Concert: Irish & Japanese guitar music
Ryogoku-Monten Hall, Tokyo
AUGUST 7, 2017
Symposium: Estancias Coreográficas Symposium: Rhythm and Dance
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
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
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
JUNE 2016
Residency: Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris