PROJECTS
GLENN GOULD BACH FELLOWSHIP
The Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship honors the name of one of the world's most influential and iconic pianists. Famed for both his legendary performances of Bach and for his ground-breaking engagement with film and recording technology, the Fellowship seeks to emulate and celebrate these qualities by helping a mature, established artist to recreate the music of the Baroque for the 21st Century.
Using the most up-to-date technology, the Glenn Gould Bach Fellow creates over the course of the Fellowship an artistic artefact or series of artefacts that will capture their unique vision. Each two year Fellowship will thus enable an outstanding musician to realize an artistic vision of stature and therein make a statement about the music of the Baroque that endures.
THE HAYDN PROJECT
The Haydn Series was presented at the Dublin Municipal Gallery, the Hugh Lane between 2012 and 2014. This joint traversal of all fifty two sonatas for keyboard by Joseph Haydn was met with outstanding reviews. Listen to live and unedited excerpts from the series:
The Haydn Project - which has grown out of the Haydn Series is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2024 and will involve filming and recording the complete sonatas on original and modern instruments over a number of years. The project will be filmed at several locations of cultural significance and will explore ideas of cultural translation.
PORTRAITS PROJECT
In the early 1870s, the American Artist James McNeill Whistler began a series of works called Nocturnes. Whistler described his paintings as simply ‘an arrangement of light, form and colour’. Perhaps for these reasons, Whistler’s use of musical terms reflected his own growing attraction to abstract form.
However there is nonetheless a highly evocative world created by Whistler in these works that suggests a musical connection deeper than mere abstraction. Thus, inspired by these haunting works, I have set about composing twelve Portraits - each modeled after a particular Nocturne as painted by Whistler.