MUSICI IRELAND
CHAMBER MUSIC
AT IT’S FINEST
Be part of our vision - championing new Irish music!
After ten years of great music-making, we are thrilled to be recording our debut album this November. We'd love you to be part of this exciting next chapter!
Join the Arts Council and the Contemporary Music Centre in recognising the importance of this new step by contributing to our fundraiser
All donations, no matter how big or small, make a huge impact and go directly towards funding our recording and artist costs.
Your donation will help to create an amazing calling card for Irish musical talent, showcasing SIX living Irish composers being featured and THIRTEEN musicians from Musici Ireland.
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PRESENTING
A COLLABORATION OF IRELAND'S LEADING CHAMBER MUSICIANS
Still I Rise Artwork by Bimbi Urquhart
Formed in 2012, Musici Ireland have performed hundreds of concerts across Ireland and have been broadcast across the world.
Musici consists of a core of players that welcomes collaborations with nationally and internationally celebrated musicians.
Over the last decade we have created lasting relationships with venues and guest artists, performing regularly at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, debuting at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2019, and enjoying a successful partnership with RTE Lyric FM through regular broadcast of our performances. Live concert broadcasts have been aired on BBC Radio 3 and 12 countries worldwide.
In 2022, we celebrated our 10th anniversary, with celebrations which included an ambitious concert series featuring music by women composers. “Still I Rise” at St Anns Church, Dawson St, showcased the versatility of Musici Ireland, with concerts for wind quintet, piano quintet, guitar and voice. With music from the Baroque period to World Premieres, they champion the works of women throughout the ages. We took the name from the Maya Angelou poem
In January 2023, we premiered “A Mother’s Voice” , a fully immersive audience experience dedicated to the many women affected by the Mother and Baby homes in Ireland in the 1900s. Most significantly, the performance featured the recorded testimony of three survivors, bringing the piece to life.
In addition to this, we are also working on many exciting cross genre collaborations, with dancers, theatre and visual artists.
In 2022, Musici Ireland welcomed 20 outstanding young musicians from around Ireland to join us in concert. This project, in partnership with Music For Wexford, gave young musicians a professional concert experience, performing Grieg Holberg Suite and Vaughan Williams’ “Variations on a theme by Thomas Tallis” alongside our world class musicians.
Musici Ireland are passionate about encouraging the next generation of musicians to learn more about the profession by gaining hands on experience.
A Mother's Voice is a commemorative dedication to the many women affected by the mother and baby homes in Ireland during the 1900s. It is a multidisciplinary production in honour of these women, a collaboration between artists and living survivors to shed light on this veiled era of Ireland's recent history. Marking Musici Ireland’s first original production it has been described as "beautiful, evocative, heart-wrenching" and "profound, emotional".
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UPCOMING EVENTS
“Fantastic event- lovely to see an all female ensemble, you are all so inspirational, we loved the show”
— Qute Source
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FRIENDS, PATRONS AND SPONSORS
You can help play a vital part in the future of Musici Ireland. We welcome your financial support to ensure that we can continue doing what we do best. Your funding contributes to the planning and programming of our diverse chamber music concerts and series.
We rely on generous donations to plan and commission new works, collaborate with Irish composers and artists, and to help us continue to offer affordable concert tickets. Find out more about how you can support Musici Ireland.