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DECEMBER 21
Arthaus, Buenos Aires

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PERFORMANCE: Garth Knox performs Dwyer's work for solo viola: imagines obesae et aspectui ingratae. For more details see: https://arthaus.ar/musica/

NOVEMBER 19-24, 2024
KRAKOW AUTUMN JAZZ FESTIVAL - THE BLUE SHROUD BAND 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION










November 19: Blue Shroud Band Small-formation Improvisations: Alchemia Club
November 20: Blue Shroud Band Small-for
mation Improvisations: Alchemia Club
November 21: Blue Shroud Band Small-for
mation Improvisations: Alchemia Club
November 22: Blue Shroud Band Small-for
mation Improvisations: Alchemia Club
November 23: Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud, Manggha Hall, Krakow
November 24: Barry Guy: All this this here, Manggha Hall, Krakow


SEPTEMBER 3, 2024









PERFORMANCE: Violist Garth Knox performs Dwyer's work for solo viola: imagines obesae et aspectui ingrataeTenerife Viola Masterclass Festival at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
For more details see: https://www.tenerifeviolamasterclass.com/





SEPTEMBER 20, 2024













CONCERT: Secret Space, with Alison Grace Koehler (poems) & Benjamin Dwyer (improvised and prepared guitar) at the Les Nocturnes de l'Aude music series, Paris. See: https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/benjamin-dwyer-and-alison-grace-koehler-secret-space



SEPTEMBER 13, 2024










 
CONCERT: Debut performance of the newly-formed Alchemia Quartet: Harri Sjöström (soprano saxophone) Benjamin Dwyer (guitar), RafaÅ‚ Mazur (acoustic bass guitar) & Vasco Trilla (drums, objects). AdLibitum Festival, Warsaw, Poland.
For details, see: https://ad-libitum.pl/program-2024




AUGUST 5, 2024






CONCERT - Celebration of Irish composer Frank Corcoran's 80th birthday. Le Rochette Castle, Pratoleva, Italy. Music by Dwyer, Corcoran, de Falla, and Villa-Lobos. Including world premiere of Dwyer's Prelude-Interludes-Postlude on texts by Frank Corcoran.



JUNE 16, 2024







CONCERT - Blooms Day Celebration: 'James Joyce and Music':
Benjamin Dwyer and actor-writer Nicole Rourke perform an evening of narration, song, and music celebrating Joyce's strong connection to music. James Joyce Centre, Dublin. 



JUNE 14, 2024

CONCERT - Blooms Week Celebration: 'James Joyce and Music': Benjamin Dwyer & actor Barry McGovern perform an evening of narration, song, and music celebrating Joyce's strong connection to music. Irish Cultural Centre, London. The concert will be followed by a discussion between Dwyer and McGovern on the theme of Joyce and Music. 















JUNE 8, 2024 
CD LAUNCH & Performance: Secret Space CD (released on Farpoint Recordings) features American, Paris-based poet Alison Grace Koehler and Benjamin Dwyer improvising on guitar & prepared guitar. The poetry and music will be performed at the launch by Koehler and Dwyer at the Palás Cinema, Galway, at 8pm. 

JUNE 7, 2024
CD LAUNCH & Performance: Secret Space CD (released on Farpoint Recordings) features American, Paris-based poet Alison Grace Koehler and Benjamin Dwyer improvising on guitar & prepared guitar. The poetry and music will be performed at the launch by Koehler and Dwyer at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, at 8pm. 

APRIL 26, 2024
Concert: The Sherman-Petcu Duo performs Dwyer's Lagantong for amplified viola, percussion & tape. NEW MUSIC DUBLIN: The Diatribe Stage, National Concert Hall.

MARCH 20, 2024
Concert: Adam Ciccillitti (guitar) performs Dwyer's Étude No. 1, Canadian Centre for Architecture,  Montréal, Canada.

MARCH 16, 2024
World Premiere:  The Sherman-Petcu Duo performs Dwyer's Lagantong for amplified viola, percussion &
tape. Walled City Music, Foyle Arts Building, Derry.  Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.


FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Concert: Violist Garth Knox performs Dwyer's imagines, Akademie Neue Musik Lucern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Concert: Violist Garth Knox performs Dwyer's imagines, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow. 

DECEMBER 10, 2023 
Concert:  Guitarist Fabio Zanon performs Dwyer's Guitar Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestra of Experimental Repertory at the Teatro Municipal São Paulo, conducted by Guilherme Rocha. Supported by Culture Ireland.

NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Concert: Violist Garth Knox performs Dwyer's imagines, Conservatoire of Shanghai. 

OCTOBER 22, 2022
Concert:  Guitarist Fabio Zanon performs Dwyer's Guitar Concerto No. 2 with the Orquestra Filarmônica de Goiás (Brazil), conducted by Neil Thomson, at the  Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre, Goiânia, Brazil. Supported by Culture Ireland.
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JUNE 18, 2022
French Premiere: Hommage à Ligeti with Katalin Koltai (guitar) at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
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JUNE 16, 2022
World Premiere: Hommage à Ligeti with Katalin Koltai (guitar) at the Bloomsday in Budapest 2021 festival 
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MARCH 9-10, 2022
Guitar Masterclass: Dwyer gives guitar masterclasses at the Sala Franco Ferrara, Consevatorio di Musica A. Scarlatti, Palermo, Sicily.
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MARCH 8, 2022
Inaugural Guitar Society 'Le Ore di Apollo', Oratorio di Santa Cita, Palermo: Conference paper: 'The 21-century Guitar'
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MARCH 7, 2022
Inaugural Guitar Society 'Le Ore di Apollo', Oratorio di Santa Cita, Palermo: Guitarist Dario Macaluso performs Dwyer's Five Sicilian Preludes
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APRIL 29, 2022
Irish Premiere: In Memoriam Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, for orchestra is performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by Stefan Asbury at the National Concert Hall for NEW MUSIC DUBLIN
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APRIL 1, 2022
One Dublin One Book: Benjamin Dwyer discusses Joyce & Music at the Lexlcon Library (http://www.onedublinonebook.ie/whats-on)
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MARCH 15, 2022
CD Launch Event: Middlesex University: SacrumProfanum on Farpoint Recordings. Featuring Garth Knox (viola), Siobhán Armstrong (medieval Irish harp, voice, & narration), Emma Coulthard (flutes), Benjamin Dwyer (bowed guitar).
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FEBRUARY 19-27, 2022
Miami International Guitar Festival: guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou performs Dwyer's Études Book I (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kfCPZcNWK0)
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FEBRUARY 20, 2022
World Premiere: SacrumProfanum, with Garth Knox (viola), Siobhán Armstrong (medieval Irish harp, voice, & narration), Emma Coulthard (flutes), Benjamin Dwyer (bowed guitar), and tape. Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2022
CD Launch: SacrumProfanum on Farpoint Recordings. Featuring Garth Knox (viola), Siobhán Armstrong (medieval Irish harp, voice, & narration), Emma Coulthard (flutes), Benjamin Dwyer (bowed guitar).
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DECEMBER 9, 2021
Irish Premiere: Film: Jonathan Creasy's An Inconvenient Masterpiece — Barry Guy's The Blue Shroud  including a Q&A with Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Benjamin Dwyer & Jonathan Creasy hosted by poet Paul Perry at the Museum of Literature Ireland MoLI.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2021
World Premiere: The Blue Shroud Band performs Barry Guy's All this, this here (after Beckett) in the Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury Hall, for the 16th Krakow Autumn Jazz festival 2021
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NOVEMBER 25-26, 2021
World Premiere: Film: Jonathan Creasy's An Inconvenient Masterpiece — Barry Guy's The Blue Shroud  at the 16th Krakow Autumn Jazz festival 2021 at the Alchemia Club
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NOVEMBER 25-26, 2021
World Premiere: Film: Jonathan Creasy's The Blue Shroud Live at the EGF London Jazz Festival 2019 at the 16th Krakow Autumn Jazz festival 2021 at the Alchemia Club

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